Tournament: Lexington | Round: 1 | Opponent: Acton Boxborough IA | Judge: Lotem Levy
Asteroid mining is starting now. New legal frameworks and massive investments bring it closer than you think-but we need to focus on maintaining progress
Gilbert 4/26 Alex Gilbert, 4-26-2021, "Mining in Space Is Coming," Milken Institute Review, https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming//SJJK
Space exploration is back. after decades of disappointment, a combination of better technology
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, we’ll need new agreements to facilitate private investment and ensure international cooperation.
Myers 16 — Ross Myers (J.D. candidate at the University of Oregon Law School.), The Doctrine of Appropriation and Asteroid Mining: Incentivizing the Private Exploration and Development of Outer Space, 2016, Oregon Review of International Law, https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/19850/Meyers.pdf?sequence=1 WJ
Despite a decrease in national space program funding, corporate space missions are on the
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preventing corporations willing to invest in asteroid mining from having a secure claim.
Asteroid Mining key to prevent terrestrial mining and solve warming.
MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett
In the next sixty years, scientists predict that certain elements crucial to modern industry
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of mining need not be sacrificed for the sake of the environment.38
Specktor 19 ~Brandon; 6/4/19; Writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years; "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html~~ Justin
The current climate crisis, they say, is larger and more complex than any
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and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it."