this is just one admittedly very big piece of the overall policy puzzle."
It causes extinction.
Dunlop 17. (Ian Dunlop chaired the Australian Coal Association in 1987-88, chaired the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading from 1998-2000 and was CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 1997-2001. He has a particular interest in the interaction of corporate governance, corporate responsibility and sustainability. An engineer by qualification, he holds an MA (Mechanical Sciences) degree from the University of Cambridge, he is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Energy Institute (UK), and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME (USA). He also chairs the Australian National Wildlife Collection Foundation. David Spratt is a Research Director for Breakthrough and co-author of Climate Code Red: The case for emergency action (Scribe 2008). His recent reports include Recount: It’s time to "Do the math" again; Climate Reality Check and Antarctic Tipping Points for a Multi-metre Sea-level Rise. A Failure of Imagination on Climate Risks. July 26, 2017. www.resilience.org/stories/2017-07-26/a-failure-of-imagination-on-climate-risks/) Climate change is an existential risk that could abruptly end human civilisation because of a
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Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber replied in two words: "Human civilisation".
supports profit growth and last week’s news from the labor market remains encouraging.
Unions devastate growth and worsen inequality – gains for workers shift costs to other parts of the economy
Epstein 20 ~Richard A. Epstein Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow @ the Hoover Institution. "The Decline Of Unions Is Good News." https://www.hoover.org/research/decline-unions-good-news~~ This continued trend has elicited howls of protest from union supporters who, of course
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more than shrink overall wealth by directing social resources to less productive ends.
Recessions cause global crises – ensuring continued growth is key
Baird ’20 ~Zoe; October 2020; C.E.O. and President of the Markle Foundation, Member of the Aspen Strategy Group and former Trustee at the Council on Foreign Relations, J.D. and A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley; Domestic and International (Dis)order: A Strategic Response, "Equitable Economic Recovery is a National Security Imperative," Ch. 13~ A strong and inclusive economy is essential for American national security and global leadership.
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energy and biosciences that will shape the international economy for decades to come.
CP: A just government should recognize an unconditional right for non-military workers to strike.
Armed forces can’t strike now
LII 6 ~Cornell Legal Information Institute, 2006, "10 U.S. Code § 976," Cornell Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/976~~/Kankee (a)In this section: (1)The term "member of the armed forces" means (A) a member of the armed forces who is serving on active duty, (B) a member of the National Guard who is serving on full-time National Guard duty, or (C) a member of a Reserve component while performing inactive-duty training. (2)The term "military labor organization" means any organization that engages in or attempts to engage in— (A)negotiating or bargaining with any civilian officer or employee, or with any member of the armed forces, on behalf of members of the armed forces, concerning the terms or conditions of military service of such members in the armed forces; (B)representing individual members of the armed forces before any civilian officer or employee, or any member of the armed forces, in connection with any grievance or complaint of any such member arising out of the terms or conditions of military service of such member in the armed forces; or (C)striking, picketing, marching, demonstrating, or any other similar form of concerted action which is directed against the Government of the United States and which is intended to induce any civilian officer or employee, or any member of the armed forces, to— negotiate or bargain with any person concerning the terms or conditions of military service of any member of the armed forces, (ii)recognize any organization as a representative of individual members of the armed forces in connection with complaints and grievances of such members arising out of the terms or conditions of military service of such members in the armed forces, or (iii)make any change with respect to the terms or conditions of military service of individual members of the armed forces. (3)The term "civilian officer or employee" means an employee, as such term is defined in section 2105 of title 5. (b)It shall be unlawful for a member of the armed forces, knowing of the activities or objectives of a particular military labor organization— (1)to join or maintain membership in such organization; or (2)to attempt to enroll any other member of the armed forces as a member of such organization. (c)It shall be unlawful for any person— (1)to enroll in a military labor organization any member of the armed forces or to solicit or accept dues or fees for such an organization from any member of the armed forces; or (2)to negotiate or bargain, or attempt through any coercive act to negotiate or bargain, with any civilian officer or employee, or any member of the armed forces, on behalf of members of the armed forces, concerning the terms or conditions of service of such members; (3)to organize or attempt to organize, or participate in, any strike, picketing, march, demonstration, or other similar form of concerted action involving members of the armed forces that is directed against the Government of the United States and that is intended to induce any civilian officer or employee, or any member of the armed forces, to— (A)negotiate or bargain with any person concerning the terms or conditions of service of any member of the armed forces, (B)recognize any military labor organization as a representative of individual members of the armed forces in connection with any complaint or grievance of any such member arising out of the terms or conditions of service of such member in the armed forces, or (C)make any change with respect to the terms or conditions of service in the armed forces of individual members of the armed forces; or (4)to use any military installation, facility, reservation, vessel, or other property of the United States for any meeting, march, picketing, demonstration, or other similar activity for the purpose of engaging in any activity prohibited by this subsection or by subsection (b) or (d). (d)It shall be unlawful for any military labor organization to represent, or attempt to represent, any member of the armed forces before any civilian officer or employee, or any member of the armed forces, in connection with any grievance or complaint of any such member arising out of the terms or conditions of service of such member in the armed forces. (e)No member of the armed forces, and no civilian officer or employee, may— (1)negotiate or bargain on behalf of the United States concerning the terms or conditions of military service of members of the armed forces with any person who represents or purports to represent members of the armed forces, or (2)permit or authorize the use of any military installation, facility, reservation, vessel, or other property of the United States for any meeting, march, picketing, demonstration, or other similar activity which is for the purpose of engaging in any activity prohibited by subsection (b), (c), or (d). Nothing in this subsection shall prevent commanders or supervisors from giving consideration to the views of any member of the armed forces presented individually or as a result of participation on command-sponsored or authorized advisory councils, committees, or organizations. (f)Whoever violates subsection (b), (c), or (d) shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both, except that, in the case of an organization (as defined in section 18 of such title), the fine shall not be less than $25,000. (g)Nothing in this section shall limit the right of any member of the armed forces— (1)to join or maintain membership in any organization or association not constituting a "military labor organization" as defined in subsection (a)(2) of this section; (2)to present complaints or grievances concerning the terms or conditions of the service of such member in the armed forces in accordance with established military procedures; (3)to seek or receive information or counseling from any source; (4)to be represented by counsel in any legal or quasi-legal proceeding, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; (5)to petition the Congress for redress of grievances; or (6)to take such other administrative action to seek such administrative or judicial relief, as is authorized by applicable laws and regulations. Amendments 1997—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 105–85
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to promote the readiness of the armed forces to defend the United States."
Military unions wreck civilian military relations and US hegemony – extinction
Caforio 18 ~Giuseppe Caforio, Brigadier General with degrees in law, political science, and strategic studies (FYI, the author died ~2015, but this was republished in 2018 in an anthology book), 5-20-2018, "Unionisation of the Military: Representation of the Interests of Military Personnel," SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-71602-2'19~~/Kankee THE OPPOSITION TO UNIONIZATION OF THE ARMED FORCES But if a convergence between the military
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Austria and Sweden. ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH THE THOUGHT OF VARIOUS AUTHORS
Doesn’t violate their FW – all of their ev is in the context of resisting business power – that doesn’t apply to military workers who don’t work for business
Interpretation: workers is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a just government ought to recognize the unconditional right of a specific type of workers to strike.
Nebel 19 Jake Nebel ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs.~ , 8-12-2019, "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution," Briefly, https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/ SM Both distinctions are important. Generic resolutions can’t be affirmed by specifying particular instances.
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-value meaning and standard expectations about what LD resolutions tend to mean.
Rules readings are always generalized – specific instances are not consistent. lCohen 01
Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars," Journal of Semantics 18:3, 2001 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188590876.pdf** In general, as, again, already noted by Aristotle, rules and definitions
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, it suddenly changes¶ direction, for example to avoid hitting something.
That outweighs—only our evidence speaks to how indefinite singulars are interpreted in the context of normative statements like the resolution. This means throw out aff counter-interpretations that are purely descriptive
Violation—they specified health care workers
Vote neg:
1~ Precision –any deviation justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.
2~ Limits—specifying a just government offers huge explosion in the topic since they get permutations of hundreds of types of workers in the world depending on their definition of "workers".
Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for
Unions cause protectionism – that slows growth and causes tariffs
Epstein 16 ~Richard A. Epstein Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow @ the Hoover Institution. "The Rise of American Protectionism." https://www.hoover.org/research/rise-american-protectionism~~ This point explains why the American labor movement has historically opposed free trade. The
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rate of return on investment further, which will necessarily compound the problem.
New trade conflicts cause global war and undermine cooperation on collective action problems
Dr. Michael F. Oppenheimer 21, Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, Senior Consulting Fellow for Scenario Planning at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Former Executive Vice President at The Futures Group, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Foreign Policy Roundtable at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and The American Council on Germany, "The Turbulent Future of International Relations", in The Future of Global Affairs: Managing Discontinuity, Disruption and Destruction, Ed. Ankersen and Sidhu, p. 23-30 Four structural forces will shape the future of International Relations: globalization (but without
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up of US tariffs on Chinese imports, most recently on consumer goods:
CP Text: A just government ought to raise the minimum wage of healthcare workers, address volatility in their scheduling, and ensure they have access to hazard pay and paid sick leave.
hazard pay, and paid sick leave for the duration of the pandemic.
11/6/21
SO - Innovation DA
Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JK | Judge: John Sims
NC – Innovation
Pharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.
Wills, MBA, and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC Despite recent concerns over an innovation crisis, this analysis shows pharmaceutical innovation has actually
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never been used as the basis for a molecule) to further explore.
The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.
shaping the biopharmaceutical industry, its profitability, productivity, and innovative future.
Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.
Marjanovic and Fejiao ‘20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ As key actors in the healthcare innovation landscape, pharmaceutical and life sci-ences
11/6/21
SO - Manufacturing cp
Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dwight-Englewood EK | Judge: Danielle Dosch
Manufacturing cp
The United States federal government should commit to purchasing sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines to meet global demand and establish public-private partnerships to expand global vaccine manufacturing capacity.
Buying and exporting vaccines solves while avoiding the china DA.
good and humanitarian, without contributing in any way to actually helping them.
11/7/21
SO - T reduce
Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dwight-Englewood EK | Judge: Danielle Dosch
T reduce
Interp: Reduce means permanent reduction
Reynolds 59 – Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents ~NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL~ Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959, lexis) Section 83's counterpart with regard to nondisability pensioners, section 84, prescribes a reduction
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or degrade. The word "reduce" seems adequately to indicate permanency.
Violation – the plan grants a trips waiver, it doesn’t eliminate intellectual property protections for medicines. Also, it is only for novel pandemics which can allow for more IP protections and does not lower IP
Standards –
Limits – infinite conditions, new laws, and waivers could be placed on the plan – kills predictability and decks a stable nexus of IPR research
Ground – adding to the squo allows them to be shifty about what the plan does and get out of generic das and cp – magnified by not specing what the waiver is going to do in the context of the aff or at all in the 1ac allows the 1AR to recharacterize, which functionally makes the aff conditional
11/7/21
SO - china da
Tournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dwight-Englewood EK | Judge: Danielle Dosch
China DA
China is using vaccine diplomacy to cement global leadership – the plan reverses this
than 350 million doses’ of vaccines to the international community by that date.
That’s necessary to solve a litany of global problems.
Shen Yamei 18, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow of Department for American Studies, China Institute of International Studies, 1-9-2018, "Probing into the "Chinese Solution" for the Transformation of Global Governance," CAIFC, http://www.caifc.org.cn/en/content.aspx?id=4491 As the world is in a period of great development, transformation and adjustment,
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, refugees, climate change and public hygiene by debt forgiveness and assistance.
Extinction
Robert Bailey 18, Vision of Earth contributor and computer science masters, 9-5-2018, "Why do we need global governance?," Vision of Earth, https://www.visionofearth.org/social-change/global-governance/ Global governance is necessary because humanity increasingly faces both problems and opportunities that are global
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The next step is to determine how effective global governance can be achieved.
11/7/21
all college prep
Tournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Newman Smith VY | Judge: David Dosch My cites are not working right now but everything is open sourced