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Bronx (All Teams) – Affirmative – E-Waste (Fear/Borg Adv’s)
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Bronx (All Teams) – Affirmative – E-Waste (Fear/Borg Adv’s)Contention One – e-Waste The rules we establish for e-Waste will determine the role of consumption in society. Amos Batto, Indiana Peace and Justice Network & Grad Student History – U Indiana, ‘6 (“A Better Upgrade, Not a Faster Throw-Away,” http://www.ciber-runa.net/guide/BetterUpgrade--ActivistGuide.html) Our current rules mean we will increasingly dump e-Waste in Africa. Jerome Douglas, November 29, ‘6 (“E-waste from advanced nations creating toxic dumping grounds in Asia, Africa”, http://www.newstarget.com/021197.html) Hence the PLAN: The United States federal government should provide sufficient and proportionate taxes for technical and financial assistance to topically designated areas for safe management and disposal of United States’ electronic waste exports to topically designated areas. Advantage One – Value to Life First, fear of death saturates society. The problem is that people cope with that fear through endless consumption. John DEGRAAF ET AL Seattle television producer 5/22/99 (and Duke University economist Thomas H. Naylor, and Colorado environmentalist David Wann. http://www.dixienet.org/spatriot/vol5no6/affluenza.htm “Affluenza”) This coping mechanism reduces life to mere survival without experience. WINHAM, MACALESTER COLLEGE, ‘1 (“DEMOCRATIC ONE DIMENSIONALITY”, FALL, http://lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/Fall2001Docs/iwinham.htm] This makes life meaningless. You should affirm life through its interconnectedness beyond physical death. James P. Carse, Professor of Religious Studies – NYU, ‘80 (Death and Existence, p. 5-6) The plan shifts the coping mechanism to interconnectedness, shattering the consumptive paradigm’s grip on our minds. R. P. Hill, Business - U South Florida, and K. K. Dhanda, Business U Portland, ‘4 (Organization & Environment, 17.2) Advantage Two – Miscalculation Coping with fear of death through endless technology causes miscalculation. Risk calculation itself becomes a form of consumption. First, we consume apocalyptic journalism. Fascination with sudden breakdowns and market crashes saturates policymaking and skews accurate risk assessment. Kathleen Stewart, Anthropology – UT Austin, & Susan Harding, Anthropology – UCSC, ‘99 (Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 28: 285-310, “BAD ENDINGS: American Apocalypsis”) Second, we consume wars like candy. The focus on war as an event disconnects it from the larger social structures that make it possible. Chris J. Cuomo, Philosophy – University of Cincinnati, ’92 (Hypatia 11.4, “War Is Not Just An Event”) Risk calculation independently shapes society. Waste is an example of dumping industrial risks on those with the least power so that ivory tower academics can obsess over superpower scenarios. This way of thinking obliterates the periphery. Masahide Kato, Department of Political Science – University of Hawaii, ‘93 (Alternatives 18, p. 346-350, “Nuclear Globalism”) This traffic in risk results in extinction. Nicholas Low, Lecturer – U Melbourne, & Brendan Gleeson, Fellow - Australian Nat’l U, ‘98 (University, Justice, Society, and Nature: an Exploration of Political Ecology, p. 103-104) The plan shifts the risk calculus – it changes how we decide and analyze risk. Ulrich Beck, Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich, British Journal of Sociology Professor at the London School of Economics and Sciences, ‘92 (“Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity”, p. 76-77) Advantage Three – The Borg Living in order to consume makes technology the new religion. This religion demands we constantly discard anything less than perfect. In other words, we become the Borg. Mike Artnfield, Master’s Student Information and Media Studies - U Western Ontario, ‘7 (Bulletin of Science Technology Society, 27.37, “The Aesthetic Calculus”) This identification with technology makes extinction inevitable. The eradication of our mortal imperfections can never end. The Borg will kill us all because we can’t be perfectly assimilated. Dr. Harold F. Searles, MD, ’72 (Countertransference & Related Subjects, “Unconscious Processes & Environmental Crisis,” p. 236-242) The plan reorients our relationship to technology. Peter L. Daniels, Professor of Geography - University of Birmingham, ‘3 (International Journal of Social Economics 30.1/2, “Buddhist economics and the environment”) The plan’s assistance is key—we must take responsibility for the ongoing impact of our past consumption Alastair Iles, Energy and Resources Group—UC, ‘4 (Global Environmental Politics 4.4, 76-107) Environmental justice analyses, however, have become more…compare consumption between countries.” 2AC: Claim to not destroy fear of death. A2: T Public health = comm. Disease 1. We meet—we are the e-waste vaccine for diseases Afriquenligne News, 2k7 (10/27, “Nokia moves to curb electonic waste dumping in Africa,” http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily-news/nokia-moves-to-curb-electronic-waste-dumping-in-africa-2007121013153/) “A source close to Nokia Eastern…Communication Manger, East Africa.” 2. Counterinterpretation Public Health must be communicable disease and environmental hazard American Heritage Medical Dictionary 2002 “The science and practice of protecting…environmental hazards” 3. Counter standards A. Limits- we sole all their limits arguments we just allow for one more case. At best communitcable disease unlimits there are 43 permutations of different communicable disease the threshold has been crossed B. Education—Our interpretation integrates ideals of academic programs with decision making—allows for the best form of education on environmental issues Frenk, National Institute of Publich Health, 1993 C. No intent to define—their evidence is in the context of immigrants like not a predictable definition D. Excludes core cases Angyal—89 (Andrew, Lewis Thomas, p 89) “The time is short and much needs to be done…advent of modern medicine.” E. Underlimiting good Frenk, 93 F. Ground—we increase it G. Contextual ev 4. Counter interp only we’re topical 5. Reasonability 6. Pot abuse not voter A2: Politics Turn- Bipart Environmental assistance programs are bipartisan Nigel Purvis, The Brookings Institute, Greening U.S. Foreign Aid through the Millenium CHallenge Acount, June 2003 "Giving some priority to environmental aid...this tradition of leadership." Plan is bipartisan-- recent legislation and house group proves Benjamin H. Wu, Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy United States Department of Commerce, August 17, 2005 www.technology.gov/speeches/p+BHW+050817.htm) "I can't speak for Congress and even...Slaughter of New York" Plan is bipartisan-- recent legislation and recycling approaches prove. Lesley McCullough, august 01, 2005 (US Congress crafts national tech recycling plan, http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/01/techrecycling/index.php "A few states, like California, Maine, and maryland...to deal with electronic waste." Zero risk of the impact—they can’t beat this card Peter R. Orszag, Ph.D in Economis & director of the CBO ‘7 “Macroeconomic volatility has been significantly…terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001” A2: Coercion 1. We control uniqueness- taxes inec and impossible to reject 2. The plan stops coercive control of technology 3. Taxes key. Only 1ac’s use of environmetal taxes can solve in the long term David Luckin, 2k “Environmental Taxation and Red-Green politics” “Having elaborated the weakness of the cominant…in a number of European countries.” 4. case o/w 5. grounding ptx withing elthical framework leads to totalitarianism ethics shapes humanity into a pre-determined moral imperative, expunghing difference and plurality Dean Richard Villa, 96 “Arendt appropriates Heidegger’s genealogy…not a political community at all.” Ethical discourse reproduces the causes of violence and dehumanizes people by turning them into abstract victims David Chandler, ‘1 (Human Rights Quarerly23, “The Road to Military Humanitarianism” “The search for victims has dominated media coverage…” Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 2.81 Mb. 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