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The
2008-09 Topic:
Resolved:
The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy
incentives in the United States.
Issue? Email Jake at ginsbajw@whitman.edu
or Jim at hansonjb@whitman.edu
NOTICE: IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE YOUR RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT, YOU
NEED TO CLEAR IT WITH JAKE GINSBACH AND JIM HANSON. WHY? We have to keep the
number of DA, CP and K even; we need to make sure there is no overlap with
positions; and you can’t cut two disads; two cp’s; or two K’s; and Jake needs
to assure your research fits in with the goals of the camp’s overall research
needs.
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AFFIRMATIVE RESEARCH
LIST 1.5 July 7, 2008
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AFFS |
ADVANTAGES |
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Andrew Stokes |
Nuclear Power create incentives
for some type of nuclear energy; prolif advantage |
Mideast Wars |
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Daniel Straus |
Cellulosic ethanol Economy,
biodiversity, |
Biodiversity |
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Jamie Piechura |
Carbon Tax Aff Warming |
Global Warming |
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Meghan Hughes |
Renewable portfolio standards Warming -Renewable Competitiveness -Oil
Plan: Resolved: The United
States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy
incentives in the United States by providing incentives for 50% renewable |
Soft Power |
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Mike Meredith |
Solar Powered
Satellites Environment Strategic Security |
OPEC Nations Scenarios Please
email Jim and Jake with countries Please
avoid overlap with Robby’s Backstopping DA |
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Nate Cohn |
Health Care for
Hybrids USFG
helps pay health care costs for us autoproducers if they put the money into
hybrid stuff advantages.... health
care, u.s. competitiveness, warming, really anything |
Competitiveness |
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Peter Campbell |
CAFE transportation
-specific solvency/advantages links would include airplanes/airlines and food
security |
Russia |
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Tony Johnson |
OTEC Hopefully
OTEC crazy advantages |
Oil runs out price shocks |
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Paul Montreuil |
Hemp |
Acid Rain and Air
Pollution Particulates |
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8 affs |
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Ben Meiches and Matt Schissler SCHOLARS LAB |
TBA |
TBA |
NEGATIVE RESEARCH
LIST 1.5 July 7, 2008
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DISADS |
COUNTERPLANS |
KRITIKS |
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Andrew Stokes |
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Environmental Competition establishes
legislation that allows environmentally friendly companies to sue heavy
polluters in order to regain what they spent on cutting their emissions |
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Daniel Straus |
Agenda Politics DA |
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Realism K |
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Eric Chalfant |
Spending disad fiscal
discipline link |
States CP Please
have federalism NB since no Federalism DA lab exists |
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Jamie Piechura |
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China CP |
Deep Ecology K Link:
Plan uses reform/shallow ecology; Impact: hurts the environment; Alt: Deep
Ecology as a methodology. |
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Jonathan Dentler |
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Kyoto CP The
USFG should become a full signatory of the Kyoto protocol and implement it. |
Baudrillard K Link:
off of advantages, plan tries to unify meaning and good. Impact: turns case,
violence. |
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Luke Sanford |
Business Confidence DA plan
hurts biz-con, economy |
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Meghan Hughes |
Natural gas DA Increase
demand for renewables trades off with natural gas demands. --Natural gas key to the chemical
industry --Chemical industry key to
the economy. --leads to extinction. |
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Fem K |
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Mike Meredith |
High Oil Prices Good Plan
would decrease oil prices and hurt various economies |
Command and Control
Counterplan Would
have regulations instead of incentives |
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Nate Cohn |
Elections DA plan
increases mccain's appeal to moderates and hippies... result is extinction (hippy-mccain alliance
is likely cause) EMPHASIS
ON IMPACTS |
Tax Cuts Incentives CP |
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Nick Griffith |
Japan Soft Power DA – Link,
plan undermines japan environmental leadership. Impact: Japan leadership
prevents war and saves lives/environment, etc. |
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Capitalism Kritik Link:
Plan engages in capitalist system or plan reinforces cap, or commodifies the
environment. Impact: environmental destruction, wars |
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Paul Montreuil |
Oil industry DA the
link will be a significant reduction/end of the use of fossil fuels
collapsing the oil industry. the economy, saudi relations, and russian
economy will be the impact scenarios. |
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Environmental Crises
Rhetoric K |
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Peter Campbell |
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Oil Drilling-More
exploration CP |
Securitization K: what
the link suggestion says plus specific country area links |
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Robby White |
Backstopping DA Oil
Producing Nations create an oil glut then a price spike, causing economic
havoc, wars, etc. Please
avoid overlap with Mike’s OPEC country advantage work. |
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Luke Kritik An
Environmentalism Kritik |
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Spencer Janyk |
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Ban Oil Subsidies
Counterplan |
Biopower Kritik |
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Tony Johnson |
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Conservation Counterplan Conserve
fuel instead of using alternative fuels |
Nietzsche Kritik 1. The
ideology created by the affirmative assumes that the Truth it creates is the
correct interpretation for events in the natural world. This ideology leads
to violence as it attempts to manipulate and control things in the world (the
environment, people etc) in the name of the value system they are affirming. 2. The
affirmative creates an ideal world through their ideologies and value systems
in the 1ac (like a world free of waste, or more connected with nature and
being) this ideology causes us to hate this world in favor of that more
perfect world. The 1ac attributes all suffering and violence as a lack of
this ideal world, and causes violence against those things and people who
prevent that ideal world from coming about. 3. The
affirmative preserves decadence (our current social systems, moral systems,
ideologies and systems of value) via their advantages in the 1ac. Decadence
is only possible when humans are reduced to being a part of the herd, content
with clinging to a safety in numbers mentality for safety and security.
Nietzsche says this mentality leads to the destruction of life because we no
longer have those people who step outside our current social values and
create new ones, thus pushing humanity forward. 4. The
appeal to equality created by the affirmative (economic equality, equal
access to energy, social equality) leads to endless wars against all those
who are seen as stronger than the weaker and more oppressed portions of
society. By creating a universal ideology for humanity where the values of
the oppressed and weak are considered good, and the values of the strong are
considered evil, it allows anything to be done to those who are considered
evil because they are the affirmative is acting in the name of what is good
for humanity. The impact
to these link arguments is the destruction of life, through denial of this
world in favor of a more perfect one, or through the spreading of the herd
mentality. For Nietzsche the herd mentality leads to extinction because it
doesn’t foster the creation of great people who shatter old social systems in
favor of new one’s that push humanity forward. The
alternative to the criticism is to refuse to act in the face of the impacts
of the affirmative. By refusing to act it prevents one ideology from gaining
hold over all of humanity and it allows us to accept the impacts of the
affirmative. For Nietzsche suffering is necessary for survival of humankind
because suffering creates conditions that push humanity forward. By appealing
to safety it creates a herd mentality that doesn’t allow us to create and
destroy value systems (a process that is neccesary for the survival and
advancement of humankind). |
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9 disads |
10 cps |
10 Ks |
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Ben Meiches and Matt
Schissler SCHOLARS LAB |
Politics |
EU CP |
Environmentalism |