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Ocean Clean Up Affirmative DKC-NAUDL 2014-15 OCEANS CLEAN UP AFFIRMATIVEOCEANS CLEAN UP AFFIRMATIVE 1 Glossary 3 Affirmative Case 1/7 5 Affirmative Case 2/7 6 Affirmative Case 3/7 7 Affirmative Case 4/7 8 Affirmative Case 5/ 7 9 Affirmative Case 6/7 10 Affirmative Case 7/7 11 Answers to: Ocean Clean Up Coming Now 13 Answers to: Ocean Clean Up Coming Now 14 Ocean of Plastic Advantage - Extensions 16 Answers To: Clean Up Efforts Kill Sea Life 17 Answers To: Clean Up Efforts Kill Plankton 18 Answers to: Plastics Don’t Kill of Species 19 Answers to: Food Chain is not protected by clean up 20 Solvency- Funding key 21 Answers to: Clean Up Fails-Size of the ocean 22 Answers to: Clean Up Fails- Ocean Conditions 23 Answers to: Clean Up Fails- Sea Life 24 Answers to: Economic Viability 25 Answers to: Economic Viability 26 Answers to: Experts Agree 28 Answers to: Depth of the Ocean 29 Answers to: Depth of Plastics / Sinking Plastic 30 Answer to: Consumption K – 2AC 31 Answer to: Consumption K – 2AC 32 Answer to: Consumption K – Perm Ext 33 Answer to: Consumption K – Link Turn 34 Answer to: Consumption K - Alternative Fails 36 Answer to Plastic Bag Ban CP - No Solvency- Clean up needed 37 Answer to Plastic Bag Ban CP - No Solvency- Other types of plastic 38 Answer to Plastic Bag Ban CP - Permutation : Double Solvency 39
There are giant piles of trash in the oceans that largely float just below the surface. They are filled with broken down plastic bags, bottles, fishing gear and anything else plastic that has made its way to the ocean. Sunlight breaks down the plastic into little pieces which are easy for sea life to eat. This trash universe kills animals who eat it, create transportation systems for invasive species and poison the food chain all the way to humans.Here is a quick video on the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh6lkv1udb0 The affirmative would fund a system of passive collection buoys which would be strategically placed in the ocean with really long buoys to catch the plastic and funnel it to a central collection platform. Details on how it works below. The plan would just have the federal government steal the idea and expand the project greatly. [___] Quick overview of the how passive collection worksMatthews, consultant, eco-entrepreneur, green investor, 2014 (Richard, “Plastic Waste in Our Oceans: Problems and Solutions”, April 10, http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2014/04/10/ocean-garbage-problems-solutions/) In 2012, Dutch Aerospace Engineering student Boyan Slat unveiled a concept for removing large amounts of marine debris. He subsequently formed an organization called The Ocean Cleanup. This approach is not only cost effective, it is potentially profitable. His idea involves an anchored network of booms that world work like a giant funnel. Propelled by the ocean’s surface currents, debris would drift into specially designed arms and collection platforms where it would be separated from plankton and recycled. Slat’s calculations suggest that using his methods, 7.25 million tons of plastic can be removed from garbage gyres in as little as five years. And a video on how they plan to fix the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh6lkv1udb0 Glossarybiodegrade- a substance or object capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms. biodiversity- the diversity, or variety, of plants and animals and other living things in a particular area or region. For instance, the species that inhabit Los Angeles are different from those in San Francisco, and desert plants and animals have different characteristics and needs than those in the mountains, even though some of the same species can be found in all of those areas. cetaceans - marine mammals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises ecosystems- a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. endocrine system- the collection of glands of an organism that secrete hormones directly into the circulatory system gyre- a circular pattern of currents in an ocean basin. “There are five massive garbage gyres, one is located in the Indian Ocean, two in the Pacific Ocean and another two in the Atlantic Ocean. Garbage gyres come together as the trash gets caught in circular ocean currents. This causes stray garbage to move until they collide and merge with one another.” Matthews, 2014 invasive species- an organism that is not native and has negative effects on the environment it is introduced to logistical – the planning, implementation, and coordination of the details of a business or other operation. photodegradation describes the effects of sunlight on the tons of plastic floating out at sea. Essentially, the sun's rays dry the plastic to the point that it shatters Affirmative Case 1/7Contention 1 is the growing ocean of plastic.Our obsession with plastic produces millions of tons of trash to dump into the oceans. These plastics break down but do not biodegrade. We are poisoning our oceans with a galaxy of trash islands that kill fish, coral and threaten the health of the oceans themselves.Weishar, news and political reporter and founder of Quiet Mike, 2014 “The Ocean Size Problem of Ocean Pollution”, Quiet Mike, http://quietmike.org/2014/04/07/ocean-size-problem-ocean-pollution/ Our oceans cover approximately 71% of the Earth’s surface and contains 97% of the Earth’s water. With those kind of numbers, you’d think it would be hard for us humans to pose a threat to it. Well, humans are capable of anything when we put our destructive minds to it. While the media has under reported the threat of climate change, it has completely ignored the state of our oceans. From oil spills to plastic bags to random sea junk, our oceans may soon resemble some of our dead lakes. The situation is more desperate than you think. Most people think oil spills do the most harm to our waters. It certainly does damage to be sure, however plastic is far worse than oil. There is currently seven million tonnes of plastic floating around in our oceans. Your may have heard of the Pacific and Atlantic garbage patches. They are not large trash islands in the middle of the ocean as some believe. They are more like galaxies of garbage, populated by millions of smaller trash islands that may be hidden underwater or spread out over many miles. These garbage patches are made up of mostly plastic. Unfortunately, plastic breaks down into smaller particles (or micro-plastics) and is then consumed by marine life. This is what makes plastic so bad and difficult to clean up. A lot of it can’t be seen, and therefore the size of these patches are almost impossible to estimate. I’ve heard they are as little as the size of Texas (if you can call that small) or as big as the continental United States. I imagine the truth lies somewhere in between. Plastic uses up only 8% of the world’s oil supply, but we use it now more than ever. In fact, we’ve produced more plastic in the last ten years than the previous hundred years combined. Our addiction to plastic isn’t going away anytime soon and because plastic is not biodegradable, it is not going away either. According to Captain Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, if we don’t change our ways, all the world’s fisheries will collapse by 2048. He also believes that all our coral reefs may be gone by as early as 2025. Pretty scary. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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