Tournament: 1 - glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: la salle mq | Judge: leah villanueva
Public support for climate reform is high now
Tyson and Kennedy 20
Alec and Brian, (Alec Tyson is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center, where he studies public views of science and technology and the implications of science for society. He is an expert in U.S. survey research and has written about American public opinion on a range of topics, including U.S. generations, the growing role of partisanship in American life, climate change, the environment, and trust in scientists. And Brian Kennedy received his master’s and Ph.D. in political science at Michigan State University, where his work focused on cross-national attitudes about climate change.)/EE
ALEC AND BRIAN KENNEDY
A majority of Americans continue to say they see the
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(39) think the private marketplace will ensure this change in habits.
Governmental policy is key to solve for climate change but continued public support is needed
Leiserowitz, 19
Anthony, (Anthony Leiserowitz is a human geographer at Yale University who studies public perceptions of climate change. He has particularly examined perceptions within the United States, where people are considerably less aware of climate change than in other countries.)October 22, "Building Public and Political Will for Climate Change Action," Yale School of the Environment, https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/building-public-and-political-will-for-climate-change-action / EE
Global climate change is a “massive collective action problem.” While changes in individual
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risks. This is a challenge for politics, not for the individual.
The affirmatives’s ontologization results in depoliticization
Browning and Joenniemi, PhDs, 7-11-2016
(Christopher and Pertti, University of Warwick and Danish Institute for International Studies, “Ontological security, self-articulation and the securitization of identity”, SAGE Journals, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0010836716653161, NK)
Understood as such, securitized identities therefore become viewed as sources of ontological security.
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self-reflexivity of the political subject’ (Mälksoo, 2015: 225).
Warming causes extinction --- oxygen, disease, ice melt, and cognitive failure
McKibben 19 Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, “This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out,” Rolling Stone, April 9, 2019, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-mckibben-falter-climate-change-817310
Oh, it could get very bad. In 2015, a study in the
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too bad, as those skills are what we seem to need most.