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I think I have put up all the site requests people had emailed me asking about. I will get to posting the affirmatives completely soon enough. If there is anything else I might be forgetting that I read and people want sites for feel free to email me samin07 [at] gmail [dot] com

= Affirmatives = toc

** Military PTSD **
Advs: Heg Good, Exclusion/Otherization

Ban Go Pills
Enforcement-Issuing a mandage

Ban Masturbation
Contention 1 – The Problem Masturbation still is a huge problem among our youth and politicians remain in denial

Contention 2 – Harms A SUBPOINT – BE YOUR BODY’s FRIEND 1. Masturbation causes blindness, hairy pals, mental illness, reduced libido and reduced chance of reproduction 2. Open your health textbook to the index, every disease in there is caused by masturbation

B SUBPOINT – GUESS WHO STARTED MASTURBATION? 1. Bin Laden was a nice guy before he met some liberal and started masturbating, now look what he’s done! 2. At this very moment there are 150,000 people masturbating in the US, which costs our nation 3.14 billion dollars monthly in lost productivity 3. God gates people for masturbating, he killed Onan for it, what makes you think he won’t do the same thing to you?

C SUBPOINT – THE END OF THE WORLD Worse than plague, war and small poz, masturbation is the #1 threat


 * Therefore I offer the following modest proposal:**


 * The United States federal government should substantially reform the provisions of mental health services to the chronically mentally ill by banning masturbation**


 * Enforcement through a zero tolerance policy as advocated by President Bush at whitehouse.org which would incorporate random stops, and searches, urine testing, infra-red scanning and a secret policy force.**


 * Punishment for breaking the law would be a variety of “restriction instruments,” imprisonment, circumcision or even castration. Made legal by Executive Order #13252-V**


 * The plan is enacted through the federal government and then handled by the secret police**


 * Funding through normal means of course such as bake sales and car washes.**


 * Any Questions, feel free to ask in cross-x**

Contention 3: Solvency We can enforce this with some simple new tactics

Contention 4: Underview – Time to get serious 1. All kidding aside, my project of mockery and caricature exposes the current problems we have nowadays with labeling people as mentally ill. My performance of debate allows us to challenge the dominance of traditional politics 2. Vote Aff for Gurrilla Communication. Empirically, distorting message and medium of communication are more effective then pure criticism at challenging and changing norms. 3. Irony is superior to all other forms of discourse and performance because of its ability to challenge and overcome deeply entrenched discourses and hierarchies 4. The false belief and the medical interventions masturbation appeared to justify served the needs of relatives of patients. Who looked fro control over the misbehavior of their kin and the physicians who gain prestige and power by diagnosing and treating misbehavior, as if it were a disease? While masturbation is no longer perceived as a mental illness by the psychiatric community, we can compare Szazs analysis of masturbation to current debates surrounding ADD, Depression, Schizophrenia, Suicide and so Forth.

=Negative=

Topicality CMI - Extra
1) Interpretation- Chronically mentally ill as a defined by the US Code on July 1, 2004<38 C.F.R. § 61.1 Definitions. Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/julqtr/38cfr61.1.htm accessed 12/02/10

2) Violation- the plan affects people who are not chronically mentally ill.

3) Extra-Topicality is bad: A. Limits: By limiting out teams that are extra-topical, it puts fair limits on the number of cases that can be run by the affirmative. Otherwise, an affirmative can do any action as long as it affects someone who has a CMI. B. Ground: The negative doesn’t allow for teams who are extra-topical, because there is too much negative disad and counterplan ground

4) Voter for fairness, topic specific education, and because it violates the NFA rules.

Topicality - "The" Chronically Mentally Ill
1) Interpretation- “the” is a definite article that refers to the chronically mentally ill as a whole. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary Online accessed—4/4/11 “Definition of The” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the

2) Violation- the plan does not reform the provision of mental health services for THE chronically mentally ill, rather for the _.

3) Reason to prefer our interpretation- A) Limits- The aff interpretation explodes the topic allowing for hundreds more cases that affect even one small chronic mental illness. They destroy all reasonable limitation by creating an unfair research burden on the negative. B) Predictability- it is literally impossible to predict the affirmative case because they are not affecting the CMI as a whole but rather choosing a specific illness to target. This is independently abusive and a voter in the round. C) Grammar- even if they win that they are “reasonably topical” you cannot vote for the plan, the simple grammar of the resolution proves their plan to be untopical. Grammatically, they are wrong.

4) Voters- First of course is that it is an NFA Rule that untopical cases cannot be voted for, we could literally stop this round now. Second is the lack of topic specific education in the round, by not debating about the reformation of mental health service provisions, we do not take away any topic knowledge that is useful in that context.

Agent Specification
SUBPOINT A. –INTERP: THEY DON’T SPECIFY THE AGENT IN THE PLAN TEXT. SUBPOINT B. THAT’S A VOTER 1. KEY TO NEGATIVE GROUND: It’s critical to our executive, congressional, and judicial counterplans as well as disadvantages and case arguments. 2. KEY TO EDUCATION: 90% of the analysis of plan is in the implementation Elmore ’80 (Prof. Public Affairs at University of Washington, PolySci Quarterly 79-80, p. 605)

Ground Specification
A. Violation— The AFF fails to specify the grounds upon which the Supreme Court makes its ruling.

B. This hurts debate— 1. Negative ground—not specifying prevents us from running disads to specific rationale for court decisions and locating specific negative strategies for solvency debates. The AFF can spike out of our links that are predicated upon the particular perception or implementation of certain precedents.

2. Predictability—never before has the Supreme Court made a decision without precedent. There is no evidence speaks to unilateral decision making, making it impossible for us to research.

3. Education—no Supreme Court decision is done without impetus. Specifying the proper grounds for decisions is key to learning topic specific education about past presidents and understanding the real world process of policymaking.

4. Specifying the grounds of the decision is as important as the result of the decision itself—it effects both our understanding of authority and the outcome of the decision. Wu, 2002 (Frank, professor of law at Howard University, Criminal Justice Magazine, “Profiling in the Wake of September 11”, Summer, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/cjmag/17-2/japanese.html)

Framework
Interpretation: Debate should be a site for contest over political proposals. This requires that the affirmative present a predictable plan of action and defends that their policy should be adopted by the USFG.

Our interpretation is the most predictable given the wording of the resolution.

The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon—the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debaters Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing 2k

“Resolved” proves the framework for the resolution is to enact a policy. Words and Phrases 1964 Permanent Edition

“Should” denotes an expectation the aff will be enacted. American Heritage Dictionary 2k

The USFG is the government in Washington D.C. Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2k http://encarta.msn.com

Violation –

1. The affirmative fails to defend a fiat based interpretation of their plan through the federal government. (They instead believe that our role is best supported through individual action and rather than institutional implementation of policy proposals we should enhance our rhetoric about the problems occurring in the status quo.

2. Brightline test – could the arguments in the 1ac form the outline of a proposal to policymakers? Obviously they couldn’t. Lutz, Prof PolSci U of Huston, 2k (Donald, Political Theory and Partisan Politics p 46)

C. Standards

1. Ground - the aff will always win that the principles of their advocacy are good in the abstract—we can only debate the merits of their framework if they defend the specific consequences of political implementation Michael Ignatieff, Carr professor of human rights at Harvard, 2k4 Lesser Evils p. 20-1

Without predictable ground debate becomes meaningless and produces a political strategy wedded to violence that fails to achieve productive change Shively, Prof Politics at Tx A&M, 2k4 (Political Theory and Partisan Politics p 182)

2. Limits - There are limitless contexts or avenues through which they could purport to advocate the plan. Our interpretation limits debate to promote politically relevant dialogue and structured communication. Lutz, Prof PolSci U of Huston, 2k (Donald, Political Theory and Partisan Politics p 39-40)

And, exploding predictable limits neutralizes the discursive benefits to debate and renders their advocacy meaningless—only our interpretation preserves the revolutionary potential of a deliberative activity. Shively, Prof Politics at Tx A&M, 2k4 (Political Theory and Partisan Politics p 180)

3. Topical Education—by manipulating the topic to access their political project they skirt debate about the implementation of policies by the government. Their education is distrusting of institutional study and pragmatic reform. Even if their intentions are noble, their message results in fascist totalitarianism Lewis, 92 (Martin, Green Delusions p 247)

4. Grammar – our reading of the resolution is the only predictable way to develop an interpretation because it is based off of grammatical rules and definitions. Grammar is the only way to prevent arbitrarily limited and unpredictable interpretations.

D. Topicality is a voting issue for fairness and jurisdiction. 1. It comes before all other arguments in the round because we shouldn’t be forced to develop a strategy against non topical cases.

2. The fairness of the affirmative’s advocacy must precede consideration of its merits or else all contestation is meaningless Shively, Prof Politics at Tx A&M, 2k4 (Political Theory and Partisan Politics p 180)

Revolution
Links are based on the aff - the alternative is to vote neg or in the name of the aff say no to allow the revolution to occur
 * These cards are on paper only will post cites soon

"The" PIC
PIC out of the Word "The" before United States Federal Government and sometimes reads an acronyms net benefit for people that say things like "USFG" or any acronym - the counter plan would also include what that acronym stands for. The Definite Article ‘The’ Before United States Federal Government Inscribes a Static Notion of Value Upon the State and Perpetuates Geopolitical Domination Thrift, 2k. (Nigel Thrift, Professor of Geography @ University of Bristol. “It’s the Little Things” //Geopolitical Traditions: A Century of Geopolitical Thought: In Atkinson// pg. 383-385.)

Definite Article “THE” perpetuates geopolitical domination. Billig and Shotter, 98. (Michael Billig, Department of Social Studies University of Loughborough and John Shotter, Department of Communication @ University of New Hampshire. “A Bakhtinian Psychology: From Out of the Heads of Individuals and Into the Dialogues Between Them” pg. 20. //Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words//.)

Geopower is at the heart of the imperial nation-state – war and violence are an inevitable result of this violent cartography. O’Tuathail, 96. (Gearoid O’Tuathail, Professor of Government and International Affairs @ School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech. “Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space” Google Books.)

Representations have political ramifications. Shapiro 88. (Michael J. Shapiro, Department of Political Science @ University of Hawaii. “The Politics of Representation” pg. 8-9)

Evaluating Discursive Net Benefit Comes First – Their Method Overidentifies with political practice at the expense of political theorization the terminal impact is Perpetuation. Brown, 97. (Wendy Brown. “The Time of the Political” //Theory & Event// Volume 1, Issue 1)

Linguistic discussions break down the rigidity of terms and opens up a discussion of their true meaning accessing the universe of discourse. Marcuse, 2002, political theorist at Columbia University, Harvard University, taught philosophy and politics at Brandeis University, and at the University of California, San Diego, One-dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society, Routledge, 99-100

Solidification of meanings eliminates discussions of the past which are essential to reveal true meanings of life and society. This is precursor to the aff impacts as knowledge of the individual and society further enables evaluation of external harms. Marcuse, 2002, political theorist at Columbia University, Harvard University, taught philosophy and politics at Brandeis University, and at the University of California, San Diego, One-dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society, Routledge, 101-103

Deleuze and Guttari K
Chapter 1—The Wolfman

The world exists not as we see it, but the way in which it is framed for us to absorb. The Freudian concept of the wolfman was the notion that something which is inherently evil can reform itself in order to become a productive entity—however, the movement of change is always coopted by the way in which the wolfman conceptualizes the world. The results are not only wrong, they are counterproductive—the wolfman retains its violent identity and adheres to the periphery of its sadistic origins. It is this project in which the 1ac engages—

The way in which the affirmative enframes the states role in the issuance of reform of mental health services necessarily functions as a form of appeasement of emancipatory projects—the form of politics in which they participate is nothing short of the construction of an empty signifier—a symbol of change which produces the image of reformation while allowing the state to lodge its insidious nature in the shadows where it can be more destructive— Deleuze and Guattari 1987, The greatest frenchies ever, ATP pg 229

The aff falls prey to the trap that was, in fact, framed for them to absorb-the realization that the state participates in the suspension of essential rights and liberties is important, but the action that they take to act in opposition to this flawed system of politics is what necessitates rejection-the answer, of course, is global capital.

The political decision to reverse the flow of things is the legitimizing mechanism for the state's project-the act of providing a staged response to a demand that the state change produces positive images of capital that allow us to deceive our innate knowledge. This reterritorializes capitalism and brings back the same impacts that the aff was trying to prevent in the first place. Deleuze and Guattari 1987, The greatest frenchies ever, 1987, ATP pg 217-221

The affirmative is the enabling mechanism for this system of politics—the claim to act in opposition to state manifested behaviors like violations of rights is used by the state to co-opt the affirmatives movement and redeploy it in the name of state evil— Deleuze and Guattari, The greatest frenchies ever, ATP pg 386, 78

Chapter 2—The War Machine The affirmative’s project is the project of the warmachine—a leftist movement against the state that attempts to counter its violent nature, but like many movements, it is futile and misguided. This form of coalitional politics is enticed by an externally projected image that the state unleashes in order to produce the image of benignity—that, however, is clearly not the case Deleuze and Guattari, The greatest frenchies ever, ATP pg 354, 87

The ultimate impact is the largest possible—the violent war machine is the underlying logic for all impulses to destroy—the cooption of the warmachine through the legitimization of global capital provides the mechanism for redeployment of their movement as a project of the violent identity of the state—the impact is total and utter extinction— Deleuze and Guattari, A thousand plateaus, The greatest frenchies ever, 1987, pg 420-21

Chapter 3—MINORITY REPORT

Capital produces its negative consequences through the classification of individuals—the way in which we should oppose this system is not through the direct opposition of capital, but instead by pushing it to its absolute limits—

I have an alternative and the text is to reject the affirmative in order to become minoritarians that create lines of flight, which accelerate global capital.

This is the way in which we can establish a micropolitical revolution that allows us to deconstruct dichotomies and classifications that allow capital to marginalize—the act of becoming dead to the system by becoming the marginalized allows us to internally dis-configure the hierarchies propped up by the state so we can productively deal with the inevitable framework of international politics Deleuze and Guattari, A thousand plateaus, The greatest frenchies ever, 1987, 291-94 / 469-470

Failure to justify the methodology results in harm replication. Rejection allows us to recognize the falsity of their assumptions so viable political solutions can be diagnosed—and is the only way to solve case Dillon and Reid 2000 – 1/3, Michael and Julian, professors of IR at the University of Lancaster, Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance

Normativity K
A.) Links There is no reason to vote affirmative: They can’t articulate any link between their prescriptions and practical worldly effects. Schlag 90 [Professor of Law @ U of Colorado (Pierre Stanford Law Review p. lexis]

And, Their conception of communication is normative – The affirmative views language as a neutral conduit for thought, which neglects that much of language is ineffective Schlag 90 [Professor of Law @ U of Colorado (Pierre Stanford Law Review p. lexis]

B.) Impacts 1. No Harms: Their description of the status quo presupposes a rational, autonomous subject that not only describes the bureaucracy, but also our agency to act as empowered Cartesian egos- in reality, these subject positions do not exist Schlag 91 [Professor of Law @ U of Colorado (Pierre Stanford Law Review p. lexis]

2. Turns Case- their rhetorical performance shields us for responsibility for our own contributions to material pain and suffering- Delgado 91 [Richard, Colorado Law Professor, 139 PA. L. Rev. 933, April]

3. External Impact: The aff’s rhetorical performance is premised on the idea of rational subject with free will who can act upon the law and bureaucratic control- this is the basis for their solvency claims and the claim you should vote for them – this normative model of subjectivity in fact is bureaucratic control – its essential meaning is the infliction of pain and death Schlag 90 [Professor of Law @ U of Colorado (Pierre Stanford Law Review p. lexis]

Central Asia
A. Terrorism key to US presence in Central Asia. Bruno Tertrais, [|Senior] Research Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research, 12/4/’01 (What are the Strategic and Geopolitical Consequences of the War Against Terrorism?, p. Google)

B. US Presence in Central Asia key to stop nuclear war. Dr. M. Ehsan Ahrari, Professor of National Security and Strategy of the Joint and Combined Warfighting School at the Armed Forces Staff College, 8/1/’01 (www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/Pubs/display.cfm?pubID=112)

China Bashing
A. Terrorist attack key to keep China bashing off the foreign policy agenda. Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, June, ‘04 (Don't Break the Engagement, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 83, Iss. 3, p. Proquest)

B. Anti-China pressure undermines relations and makes military conflict inevitable Leon Hadar, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute, 2000 (“The Sweet-and-Sour Sino-American Relationship,” http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1107)

C. Extinction The Straits Times (Singapore), June 25, 2000 “No one gains in war over Taiwan.” l/n

Economy
A. Terrorist attack will pull the US out of recession-stimulus spending. Katharine Mieszkowski, Senior Staff Writer for Salon, ‘01 (http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/21/fiscal_stimulus/index.html)

B. Nuclear war Cook 07 (Richard C., 6/14/07, Retired Federal Analyst - U.S. Treasury Department, "It's Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy has begun," http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5964)

Hegemony
A. Terrorist attack key to hege. Peoples Daily, 9/13/’2 (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/11/eng20020911_103025.shtml)

B. Heg prevents nuclear war. Zalmay Khalilzad, RAND, The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1995

Russia Relations
A. Terrorist attack key to high level U.S.-Russian relations. Peoples Daily, 9/13/’2 (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/11/eng20020911_103025.shtml)

B. Rebuilding high level ties prevents a war of miscalculation that would cause extinction Cirincione 07 (Joseph Cirincione, Center for American Progress expert in nonproliferation, national security, international security, U.S. military, U.S. foreign policy, July 23rd, 2007, “Nuclear summer, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/07/nuclear_summer.html/print.html)

Missile Defense
A. Terrorism key to missile defense – 9-11 proves. Bruno Tertrais, Senior Research Fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research, 12/4/’01 (What are the Strategic and Geopolitical Consequences of the War Against Terrorism?, p. Google)

B. NMD is critical to avoid nuclear war. Investor’s Business Daily, 11-7, 2007 http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=279331529327444

Poverty
A. A terrorist attack would cause U.S. seizure of terrorist funds to solve international development and poverty. Stephen Krasner, Prof. IR @ Stanford, Jan/Feb, ‘05 (Foreign Policy, Iss. 146)

B. Poverty is equivalent to an ongoing thermonuclear war against the poor and is at the root of all other forms of violence. Gilligan 96 (James Gilligan, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Med and Director of the Center for the Study of Violence, 1996, Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes p. 191-196)

Oil
A. Terrorism is key to high oil prices. Tan and Evans, 2007, Sophie Tan and Gavin Evans July 2nd, 2007 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aPLQUpQ9WoGQ&refer=europe

B. Low oil prices cause Russia to sell nuclear technology to Iran which causes multiple scenarios for collective extinctions. Ecological consequences turn the case Ali 96 Javed TED Case Studies, Volume 3, Number 2, June, 19 “Iran Nuclear Imports and Environmental Possibilities” Senior Policy Analyst http://www.american.edu/TED/irannuke.htm

Iran Strikes
A. Contingency plans in a terrorist attack mean we’d strike Iran. Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization, 2-22-2006, Is the Bush Administration Planning A Nuclear Holocaust, http://www.countercurrents.org/us-chossudovsky190107.htm

B. Attacking Iran is feasible and successful – we only need to delay for a small period of time to doom the entire program. Reuel Marc Gerecht, resident fellow @ American Enterprise Institute, 7-10-2006, Cognitive Dissonance: The State of America's Iran Policy, http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24637/pub_detail.asp

C. That solves nuclear war. Joseph Cirincione ‘7, director for nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress, former Senior Associate and Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Uri Leventer, graduate student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, August 14, 2007, The International Herald Tribune, “The Middle East's nuclear surge: Recipe for war,” p. Lexis

Catastrophe
The images of catastrophe and destruction they present are like a drug, used by the first world nations to feed off the suffering of the rest of the world. Their efforts to solve these problems are coproductive with the disasters themselves, and this constant search for new spectacle will lead to the destruction of the human species as the ultimate reality TV show. Baudrillard in 94 [Jean, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71]

Nuclear Hyperreality
A. The scenario for nuclear escalation and war they imagine will always be prevented by deterrence. However, the fear of nuclear war is used to justify a state security apparatus that freezes the social and maintains a system of perfect control. Baudrillard in 81 [Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 32-35]

B. The true damage of nuclear weapons is not the war that could result, but in the fear and mental destruction that fear of them demands. Instead of trying to avoid the catastrophe, we need to embrace its simulation and break the mental chains of deterrence. Baudrillard in 81 [Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 55-57]

Animal Sentimentality
Sentimentality towards animals degrades their status and places them even farther below humans, as not even deserving our respect, justifying experimentation and destruction. Baudrillard in 81 [Jean, “Simulacra and Simulation” p. 134-136]

Terrorism
Terrorism is not located in one particular country or group – its a consequence of the new global order, which creates constant internal violence. Their supposed solution plays into the mindset that justifies terrorist acts. Baudrillard in 2003 [Jean, October, “The Mind of Terrorism”]

Culture Clash
Culture is like the economic system. Overproduction of culture goes beyond people’s ability to consume it, leading a complete crash in all cultural signs and a destruction of what they try to protect. Baudrillard in 96 [Jean, March 16, “The Global and the Universal”]

Nietzsche
Life is risky, and no one lives forever. The affirmative resents this insecurity, and instead attempts to order a safer world. Der Derrian 98 [James, Watson Institute research professor of international studies at Brown University, “The Values of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard”, JSTOR]

The affirmative cannot accept the imperfection and chaos inherent to life. Through the plan they “correct existence,” reacting out of resentment against life’s inevitable suffering Saurette 1996 [Paul, “I mistrust all systemizers and Avoid Them: Nietzsche Arendt and the Crisis of the Will to Order in International Relations Theory, Journal of International Studies vol. 25 No. 1 ]

The affirmative prevents nuclear war, and blinks. The suicidal nihilism fostered by the all-too-careful utilitarianism of the Last Man outweighs extinction. Owen and Ridley, 2K [David, assistant director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, Aaron, senior lecture and associate director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, “Dramatis Personae,” in Why Nietzsche Still? ed. Alan Schrift, pp. 149-151]

Embrace the necessity of the status quo. We must submit ourselves to its one chancy dice-roll, rather than deploying prediction and causality in a resentful attempt to escape the meaninglessness of life. Deleuze 1986 (Gilles, French philosopher, “Nietzsche and Philosophy,” Columbia UP, p. 25-7)

Warming
Economic growth accelerates greenhouse gas emissions leading to further warming – studies prove Associated Press 07 (“Climate Change happening faster, scientist says”, October 7, 2007, http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/264903, K . Ward)

Global warming will reach a tipping point within the decade – positive feedbacks would raise sea levels, threaten food security, collapse states, and end civilization. Brown 8—Director and Founder of the global institute of Environment in the U.S., 2008 [Lester E. Brown, “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization”]

Water Wars
Continued growth and consumption guarantees violent conflicts over clean water. Speth 08—Rhodes Scholar @ Oxford University, Chairman of Council on Environmental Quality for Executive Office, Founder of World Recourses Institute (Think-Tank), Led the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development, Administrator of United Nations Development Program, Dean of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Leader of the President’s Task Force on Global Recourses and the Environment, Holds multiple awards—National Wildlife Federation’s Recourse Defense Award and Lifetime Achievement Award of Environmental Law Institute, and Blue Planet Prize [James, “The Bridge at the Edge of the World”)

Water Wars go Nuclear Weiner, Prof. Princeton, ‘90 The Next 100 Years p.270

Terrorism
Economic growth kills human rights and motivates terrorism—oppressive regimes who support the free market. Trainer 02—Senior Lecturer of School of Social Work @ University of New South Wales [Ted, “If you want affluence, prepare for War,” Democracy & Nature: The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, July, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p. 281-299]

Extinction Corsi 05 - Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University [Jerome Corsi (Expert in Antiwar movements and political violence), Atomic Iran, pg. 176-178]

Resource Wars
Continued growth will inevitably lead to resource wars Trainer 2 - Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales (Ted, “If you want affluence, prepare for War,” Democracy & Nature: The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy; Jul2002, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p281-299)

Those go global and nuclear Klare, 8 - Professor of Peace and World Security Studies @ Hampshire College, (Michael, March 10, “The Coming Resource Wars”, http://www.alternet.org/environment/33243)

Enviroment
Growth causes ecosystem collapse and extinction—you should prefer erring towards saving species, human species are much more likely to adapt Jim Chen 2K - Prof of law U of Minneasota, Now Dean of Law School at Louisville (“Globalization and Its Losers:, 9 Minn. J. Global Trade 157’ HeinOnline, I’ll email you the article if you don’t have the database)

Diseases
Multiple factors from economic interdependence creates the massive possibility of disease spread through overpopulation and interaction. Fidler 96 (David p, J.D. @ Indiana U, Writer for CDC, Emerging Infectious Diseases Volume 2 – Number 2 “Globalization, International Law, and Emerging Infectious Disease” http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol2no2/fidler.htm)

Extinction Daswani, 96 (Kavita, South China Morning Post, 1/4, lexis)

Agriculture
Industrial agriculture makes oxygen collapse via pesticide use and monocultures inevitable Alteri 2k (Miguel, Ph.D in Entomology, Division of Insect Biology, U.C. Berkeley http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~agroeco3/modern_agriculture.html)

Oxygen depletion leads to extinction Tatchell 8/13 – The Guardian (Peter, “The Oxygen Crisis” lexis)

Mindset Shift
Society collapse inevitable – this is the only way to solve poverty because capitalist policies are inherently biased and only a new system based on morals can solve that Klassen 4 - former senior editor with Adbusters magazine, and now a senior partner at Biro Creative (Nicholas “Islamic Economics” July http://www.somaliaonline.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000555;p=0)

Economic collapse prevents inevitable extinction Djordjevic 98 – Interdisciplinary Minor in Global Sustainability Senior Seminar University of California, Irvine, (Johnny, March, “Sustainability,” http://www.dbc.uci.edu/sustain/global/sensem/djordj98.html)

it’s try or die for us—there is only a chance a world post collapse would be better Barry 08 president and founder of Ecological Internet, Economic Collapse and Global Ecology (Dr. Glen, ,1/14, Counter Currents, http://www.countercurrents.org/barry140108.htm)

None of their “mindset shift won’t happen args” matter—collapse FORCES a change Lewis 2k - Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder (Chris H, “The Paradox of Global Development and the Necessary Collapse of Global Industrial Civilization” http://www.cross-x.com/archives/LewisParadox.pdf)

And, policy makers will learn from past mistakes and shift towards local solutions Lewis 2k - Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder (Chris H, “The Paradox of Global Development and the Necessary Collapse of Global Industrial Civilization” http://www.cross-x.com/archives/LewisParadox.pdf)

Timeframe
Global war will kill everyone in 2025 without dedev Christopher Chase-Dunn, Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California-Riverside, and Bruce Podobnik, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lewis and Clark College, 1999, in The Future of Global Conflict, ed. Bornschier and Chase-Dunn, p. 43

Ecocide kills all life by 2050 without dedev The Observer, July 7, 2002, http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,750783,00.html

It’s occurring now—Global economic collapse within decades Chris H. Lewis, Professor of American Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, 2002, in On the Edge of Scarcity, Dobkowski and Wallimann, eds, pp. 25-26

The global economy will collapse by 2050, causing dedevelopment Chris H. Lewis, Professor of American Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, 2002, in On the Edge of Scarcity, Dobkowski and Wallimann, eds, pp. 25-26

Global economic collapse is inevitable, because growth fails to address the destructive contradictions it creates Chris H. Lewis, Professor of American Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, 2002, in On the Edge of Scarcity, Dobkowski and Wallimann, eds, pp. 16-17.

Internal Link - Economic Collapse causes Dedev
Movements to localize civilization and end ecological destruction are rapidly gaining strength; global economic collapse is the critical mass for achieving dedevelopment Ted Trainer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, Modified 9/14/2008, http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/

Collapse causes a shift away from growth to harmony with nature Joel Jay Kassiola, Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, San Francisco State University, 1990, The Death of Industrial Civilization, p. 196

Economic crisis causes rethinking and rejection of dominant values Lester W. Milbrath, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology at SUNY-Buffalo, 1989, Envisioning a Sustainable Society, p. 339

Global economic crisis is key to rejection of dominant values and embracing dedev Lester W. Milbrath, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology at SUNY-Buffalo, 1989, Envisioning a Sustainable Society, pp. 376-377

Collapse leads to localized societies that solve all ecological destruction Chris H. Lewis, Professor of American Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, 1998, in The Coming Age of Scarcity, Dobkowski and Wallimann, eds, pp. 44-45

Economic collapse provides the impetus for nations to withdraw from the global economy, causing dedevelopment and ending ecological destruction Chris H. Lewis, Professor of American Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, 1998, in The Coming Age of Scarcity, Dobkowski and Wallimann, eds, pp. 55-56.