Tournament: Kansas City | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hayden SM | Judge: Samuel Cade
Robert Garcia 18, currently an LLM Candidate in Cornell Law School's Law, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at Cornell Tech in NYC., "Regulating International Space Mining, an Enormous Industry," Pacific Council on International Policy, 10-23-2018, https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/regulating-international-space-mining-enormous-industry
In 2015, the United States passed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch
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inequality by disproportionately favoring the spacefaring nations remains to be seen.
It causes dangerous space mining and deregulation globally – multilateralism solves.
Edd Gent 20, freelance science and technology writer, "Space Mining Should Be a Global Project—But It's Not Starting Off That Way," Singularity Hub, 10-12-2020, https://singularityhub.com/2020/10/12/the-us-is-trying-to-hijack-space-mining-and-there-could-be-disastrous-consequences/
US space mining about to happen – sets unchangeable precedent that it is okay to
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the rules. As they say, to the victor go the spoils.
Any activity (landing, transport, mining) on asteroid surface causes hundreds of small particles
Larger chunks can break into rubble and could increase risk to satellites by 30
Sarah Scoles 15, "Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites," New
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"A few basic precautions will prevent harm due to stray asteroid material."
Clustering makes the risk of collisions uniquely high and the risk is understated
Models fail to account for clusters which make up 50 of mass in LEO
Clusters have higher probability of collision because of density and orbital similarity
Dr. Darren McKnight 17, Ph.D., Technical Director for Integrity Applications
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population in the 820- 865km altitude region for the last nine months.
Troops movements, arms treaties, bomb tracking impossible to verify
Heightened by economic disaster
Debris could be misattributed as an attack causing second-strike
Les Johnson 13
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, our military advantage over potential adversaries would be dramatically reduced or eliminated.
Satellites are key to environmental monitoring – debris collapses it and causes climate extinction
Sats monitor all environmental processes (ice melt, wildfires, atmospheric concentrations) – data collected overdetermine how to respond to warming and motivate countries to respond as seen by Paris
Montreal Protocol prevented ozone dissolution and was only possible through sat observation
Ben Biggs
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or worse, and monitoring that change is vital to our planet’s survival.
Funnell 18 – Anthony, Writer for Future Tense News Citing Dean of Law at University of Adelaide, "War in space 'inevitable' because there's so much money to be made, expert warns", ABC News, 8/23/2018, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-24/conflict-in-space-is-inevitable-expert-warns/10146314
Companies fiercely competitive and rapidly growing in critical space sector which makes states protectionist
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for developing that technology. It makes for an exciting time," he said
Asteroid mining furthers tensions between the US, China and Russia and escalates
Drives competition between Artemis and non-Artemis nations
No international treaty to guide appropriation which heightens tensions
Jamasmie 21 Cecilia Jamasmie ~Cecilia has covered mining for more than a decade.
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2020, more than 50 years after the US reached the lunar surface.
Very easy to take out sats creates use-or-lose pressures
Dual use weapons means taboo on attacking nuke sats goes away
Grego 18 – Laura, Senior Scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union
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same value to a given target or same escalatory nature to different weapons.
Starr ’17 (Steven; director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Associate member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, expert in the environmental consequences of nuclear war; 1/9/17; "Turning a Blind Eye Towards Armageddon — U.S. Leaders Reject Nuclear Winter Studies"; https://fas.org/2017/01/turning-a-blind-eye-towards-armageddon-u-s-leaders-reject-nuclear-winter-studies/; Federation of American Scientists; accessed 11/24/18; TV) ~AV~
The detonation of an atomic bomb with this explosive power will instantly ignite fires over
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predicted by the 1983 studies and described this as a "nuclear autumn."
Gardenyes 2017 (Distri Josep Gardenyes, Marxist and anarchist writer, "New Technologies, Extraterrestrial Exploitation, And The Future Of Capitalism", It's Going Down, January 28 2017, https://itsgoingdown.org/new-technologies-extraterrestrial-exploitation-future-capitalism/, mmv)
2017 is the year of Google’s Lunar X Prize, through which the North American
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of taking our civilization and the capitalist economy beyond the Earth’s gravity well.
Riederer 14 - editor-in-chief of Guernica magazine and writer at The New Yorker
Rachel Riederer, "Silicon Valley Says Space Mining Is Awesome and Will Change Life on Earth. That’s Only Half Right", New Republic, 4/19/14 , https://newrepublic.com/article/117815/space-mining-will-not-solve-earths-conflict-over-natural-resources
It's become clear that there’s just not enough stuff on Earth to go around.
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elevator pitch makes it sound, but useful in its own little way.
Key to solve conflict and space debris.
Ramin Skibba 18, science writer and astrophysicist based in Santa Cruz and San Diego., " Mining in Space Could Lead to Conflicts on Earth," Nautilus, 5-2-2018, https://nautil.us/blog/-mining-in-space-could-lead-to-conflicts-on-earth
Space mining is no longer science fiction. By the 2020s, Planetary Resources and
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explore the solar system as its steward without repeating our economically rapacious past.
Agreement is enforceable and solves.
James McSweeney 20, J.D. Candidate, May 2020, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, "LIVE LONG AND PROSPER: THE NEED FOR A NEW MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT GOVERNING ASTEROID MINING," lexis
Third, a substantial drawback is the inability to enforce punishment against countries who violate
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some of the worries of corporate investors would be alleviated by a multilateral agreement
The standard is maximizing expected well-being
Pummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT
There appears to be lot of disagreement in moral philosophy. Whether these many apparent
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be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters)
2~ Phenomenal introspection —- it’s the most epistemically reliable —- historical moral disagreement over internal conceptions of morality such as questions of race, gender, class, religion, etc prove the fallibility of non-observational based ethics —- introspection means we value happiness because we can determine that we each value it —- just as I can observe a lemon’s yellowness, we can make those judgements about happiness.
3~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first. Intuitions outweigh—they’re the foundational basis for any argument and theories that contradict our intuitions are most likely false even if we can’t deductively determine why
US is pushing for private space mining this year — American willingness to risk fragmenting I-law for mining causes tensions to escalate and climaxes with conflict over property which creates use-or-lose pressures to knock out nuclear early warming satellites and inadvertent escalation from misperceiving an attack. Risk is compounded by lack of satellite defenses and unfamiliarity of space. Aff o/w on timeframe because it’s now or never – once mining begins precedent won’t flip against it – that’s Gent 20.
Case o/w—prioritize existential impacts. They foreclose any possibility of political changes, material improvements, and interpersonal value. Mass death would be horrible—it would incinerate billions while the rest die a slow and painful death from starvation, disease, and Ice Age. Even if the world is bad, they should not get to make that decision for billions of people that find value in the world.
b) Clash—Debate is not about the content of what we debate about but the process of iterative testing through specific points of contestation. There is no 1-1 correspondence between the arguments we read and our ideologies. This turns the K—no matter your political worldview, critical thinking skills through an unrestrained framework is necessary for any revolutionary strategy.