Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: Semis | Opponent: Harker AR | Judge: McLoughlin - Gedela - Gong
Plan – States ought to expand the Public Trust Doctrine to reduce private actor appropriation of Outer Space.
Implementing Public Trust Doctrines in Outer Space limits Appropriation and ensures Outer Space Development is sustainable.
Babcock 19 (, H., 2019. THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE, OUTER SPACE, AND THE GLOBAL COMMONS: TIME TO CALL HOME ET. online Lawreview.syr.edu. Available at: https://lawreview.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/H-Babcock-Article-Final-Document-v2.pdf#page=67 Accessed 15 December 2021 Professor Babcock served as general counsel to the National Audubon Society from 1987-91 and as deputy general counsel and Director of Audubon’s Public Lands and Water Program from 1981-87. Previously, she was a partner with Blum, Nash and Railsback, where she focused on energy and environmental issues, and an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae where she represented utilities in the nuclear licensing process. From 1977-79, she served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Professor Babcock has taught environmental and natural resources law as a visiting professor at Pace University Law School and as an adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Catholic University, and Antioch law schools. Professor Babcock was a member of the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association, and served on the Clinton-Gore Transition Team.)-rahulpenu
INTRODUCTION Space exploration
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private property incentives
Exemptions devastate Regulation Credibility – OST proves.
Hickman and Dolman 2 John Hickman and Everett Dolman Volume 21 Number 1 2002 “Resurrecting the Space Age: A State–Centered Commentary on the Outer Space Regime” (associate professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College in Mt. Berry)Elmer
Thus a state
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bodies might follow.
1AC: Sustainable Space Advantage
The Advantage is Sustainable Space Development:
Implementing the PTD for Private Appropriation results in a legally binding regime that curbs unsustainable development – ensures closing of legal loopholes.
Babcock 19 (, H., 2019. THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE, OUTER SPACE, AND THE GLOBAL COMMONS: TIME TO CALL HOME ET. online Lawreview.syr.edu. Available at: https://lawreview.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/H-Babcock-Article-Final-Document-v2.pdf#page=67 Accessed 15 December 2021 Professor Babcock served as general counsel to the National Audubon Society from 1987-91 and as deputy general counsel and Director of Audubon’s Public Lands and Water Program from 1981-87. Previously, she was a partner with Blum, Nash and Railsback, where she focused on energy and environmental issues, and an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae where she represented utilities in the nuclear licensing process. From 1977-79, she served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Professor Babcock has taught environmental and natural resources law as a visiting professor at Pace University Law School and as an adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Catholic University, and Antioch law schools. Professor Babcock was a member of the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association, and served on the Clinton-Gore Transition Team.)-rahulpenu
F. The Public Trust Doctrine
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sustainable and equitable
Sustainable development embedded in law solves security, debris, traffic and SSA.
Aganaba-Jeanty 16 (, T., 2016. Space Sustainability and the Freedom of Outer Space. online Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14777622.2016.1148463 Accessed 15 December 2021 Timiebi is an assistant professor of Space and Society, in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, an affiliate faculty with the Interplanetary Initiative, a senior global futures scientist with the Global Futures Lab, and holds a courtesy appointment at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, all at Arizona State University. Timiebi was a post-doctoral fellow and is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) based in Waterloo, Ontario Canada where she focused on environmental and space governance. Timiebi was Executive Director of the World Space Week Association coordinating the global response to the UN 1999 declaration that World Space Week should be celebrated Oct 4-10 annually. She is currently on the Advisory Board for the Space Generation Advisory Council supporting the UN Programme on Space Applications. She is also on the Science Advisory Board of World View Enterprises and the SETI Institute. - pp. 10-13.)-rahulpenu
Definitions of space sustainability
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the greatest extent
Congestion creates rivalrous orbits.
Fabian 19 (Christopher; January 2019; B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy, thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a M.S. from the University of North Dakota, approved by the Faculty Advisory Committee and in coordination with Dr. Michael Dodge, David Kugler, and Brian Urlacher; University of North Dakota Scholarly Commons, “A Neoclassical Realist’s Analysis Of Sino-U.S. Space Policy,” https://commons.und.edu/theses/2455/)
Defect/Defect The ubiquity
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realistically be enacted
That triggers missile radars.
Hoots 15 (Felix; Fall 2015; Distinguished Engineer in the System Analysis and Simulation Subdivision, Ph.D. in Mathematics from Auburn University, M.S. in Mathematics from Tennessee Tech University; Crosslink, “Keeping Track: Space Surveillance for Operational Support,” https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/Crosslink20Fall20201520V16N120.pdf)
The launch of Sputnik
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for automatic maintenance
Nuclear war.
Rogoway 15 (Tyler; November 12; Defense Journalist and Editor of Time Inc’s The War Zone; Jalopnik, “These Are The Doomsday Satellites That Detected The Explosion Of Metrojet 9268,” https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/these-are-the-doomsday-satellites-that-detected-the-exp-1737434876)
For over 50
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Operation Desert Storm.
Independently causes Russia War.
Lewis 4 Jeffrey Lewis, in the Advanced Methods of Cooperative Study Program- Worked In the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Center for Defense Information, ‘4, "What if Space Were Weaponized," July 2004 pg online @ www.cdi.org/PDFs/scenarios.pdf)
Accidental Nuclear War
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to operate safely
Unchecked Commercial Appropriation causes Space Conflicts.
Perez 21 Veronica Delgado-Perez. 12/14/21. Argument | The Commercialization of Space Risks Launching a Militarized Space Race. https://www.theintlscholar.com/periodical/12/14/2020/analysis-commercialization-space-risk-international-law-military-space-race Veronica Delgado-Perez is a Staff Writer at The International Scholar. CVHS SR
Fundamentals of the
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to continue evolving
Space War cause Nuclear War.
Gallagher 15 “Antisatellite warfare without nuclear risk: A mirage” http://thebulletin.org/space-weapons-and-risk-nuclear-exchanges8346 (interim director of the Center for International and Security Studies in Maryland, previous Executive Director of the Clinton Administration’s CTBT Treaty Committee, an arms control specialist at the State Dept., and a faculty member at Wesleyan)Elmer
In recent decades
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of antisatellite weapons
Russia war causes extinction
Cotton-Barratt 17 Owen Cotton-Barratt, et al, PhD in Pure Mathematics, Oxford, Lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford, Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute, 2/3/2017, Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance, https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf
The bombings of Hiroshima
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in the future
Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risks
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PND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock’s 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans’ International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer
Consequences human survival
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Nagasaki as well