Tournament: Valley - Mid America Cup | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: James Stuckert
Capitalism is key to achieving net-zero-~--otherwise the alt fails-~--profit motives, market competition, and trade all ensure green tech.
Adair Turner 19. a British businessman and academic and was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority until its abolition in March 2013. “Is capitalism incompatible with effective climate change action?.” World Economic Forum. 9-3-2019. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/is-capitalism-incompatible-with-effective-climate-change-action/
Believers in a...contain climate change.
Past the tipping point and the alt is dictatorship and genocide-~--only tech can solve and renewables are good.
Eric Levitz 5/17/21. Senior Writer at New York Magazine. MA Johns Hopkins. "We’ll Innovate Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis or Die Trying". Intelligencer. 5-17-2021. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/climate-biden-green-tech-innovation.html
Today’s best-case ecological...like nuclear fusion.
Warming leads to extinction
Kareiva 18, Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al. (Peter, “Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back,” Futures, 102)
In summary, six...and climate change.’
Cap is sustainable and solves poverty and every quality of life metric.
Radelet ’16 (Steven; February 2016; Ph.D. and M.P.P. from Harvard University, B.A. from Central Michigan University, Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Development, and is Director of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University, former Professor of Government and Economics at Harvard University, former economic advisor to President Sirleaf of Liberia; Foreign Affairs, “Prosperity Rising,” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-12-14/prosperity-rising)
Since the early 1990s...and clean energy.
Cap’s sustainable thanks to dematerialization—their transition fails
McAfee, 20—cofounder and codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, former professor at Harvard Business School and fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Andrew, “Why Degrowth Is the Worst Idea on the Planet,” https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-why-degrowth-is-the-worst-idea-on-the-planet/, dml)
Over that same span...path to prosperity.