Tournament: Newark Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington AM | Judge: Kobe Thompson
CP Text: States should enter a prior and binding consultation with private space agencies on discussions of property rights in space.
Cooperation between private and public is key
Houser 17
Kristin Houser, 2017 (June 12, Futurism, Private Companies, Not Governments, Are Shaping the Future of Space Exploration, https://futurism.com/private-companies-not-governments-are-shaping-the-future-of-space-exploration) rc js69
Private companies may be in the lead, but the finish line for this Space
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never hurt anyone (unless you count the egos bruised by those tweets).
Helps check accountability on both public and private – best of both worlds - Err negative as all the affirmative issues involve a reckless private sector, not the existence merely of a private sector
Clive 20
Thompson, Clive. "Monetizing the Final Frontier." The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/160303/monetizing-final-frontier. js69
Coping with scarcity in space might impel settlers to reconsider some of the basic tent
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help bankroll the hard stuff, like future human colonies on the moon.
Smith 21
Smith, Fisher. "Public-Private Partnerships: The Way to Space." National Space Society - Working to Create a Spacefaring Civilization, 31 Mar. 2021, https://space.nss.org/public-private-partnerships-the-way-to-space/. js69
In recent years, private companies have begun to push the boundaries of outer space
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companies, will ensure that we continue to push our boundaries into space.
Anthony 21
Anthony, Erin Winick. "How Scientists Are Using the International Space Station to Study Earth's Climate – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet." NASA, NASA, 21 Apr. 2021, https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3078/how-scientists-are-using-the-international-space-station-to-study-earths-climate/. js69
On Earth, we often look toward the sky, longing to know what resides
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that it is changing, and identify those mechanisms responsible for climate change."
Spratt 19
David Spratt, Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, Ian Dunlop, member of the Club of Rome, formerly an international oil, gas and coal industry executive, chairman of the Australian Coal Association, May 2019, "Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach," https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_b2c0c79dc4344b279bcf2365336ff23b.pdf
An existential risk to civilisation is one posing permanent large negative consequences to humanity which
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the "fat-tail" outcomes, as illustrated in Figure 1.