Tournament: UWyo Western Series | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough ED | Judge: Molly Martin
The common heritage principle is a superior paradigm to encounter space – privatization of space prevents its realization
Henry, Edward 2018 C., Edward C. Henry, B.A., California State University, Sacramento, M.A., University of Massachusetts Boston "The United States of Sol: Privatization as a Tool of American Hegemony in the Solar System" (2018). Graduate Masters Theses. 510. https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/510
The paradigm of privatization means that space will be developed for the enjoyment of the few and causes wage servitude into the future for a small elite that control space.
Paris Marx is the host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast and author of Road to Nowhere: Silicon Valley and the Future of Mobility, coming in 2022 from Verso Books. 6-8-2020, "Yes to Space Exploration. No to Space Capitalism.," Paris Marx https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/spacex-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-capitalism /kds-ch
This kind of inequality creates permanent conditions of social destruction that makes violence inevitable.
Tamás Szentes 8, Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest, “Globalisation and Prospects of the World Society”, 4-22, http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/Events/exco/Glob.___prospects_-_jav..pdf language modified
A paradigm that focuses on human equity is the best to ensure we can colonize space effectively and better allocate resources to solve problems on earth.
Leigh Phillips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts., 5-8-2021, We Don’t Need Elon Musk to Explore the Solar System," No Publication, https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/elon-musk-space-exploration-mars-colonization, Accessed: 2-8-2022, /Kent Denver-MB
Privatization views space as a frontier of limited resources for expansion this recreates colonialism and enables continued capitalist expansion
Billings, 2007 Linda, “Overview: Ideology, Advocacy, and Spaceflight—Evolution of a Cultural Narrative.” Found in Societal Impact of Spaceflight, Ed. Stephen Dick and Roger Launius, NASA Chief Historian and National Air and Space Museum, pg 486-487 WFI-MB
Capitalist modes of encountering space ensure we keep destroying the earth and avoid our responsibility toward working to the common good.
Matthew Johnson Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Technology Sydney 2020, Mining the high frontier: sovereignty, property and humankind’s common heritage in outer space, https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/142380/2/02whole.pdf, /Kent Denver-MB
Continued capitalism will cause extinction and massive levels of violence through several social crises of economic stagnation, ecological destruction, militarism, and escalating inequality that ensure collapse of capitalism.
Robinson 16 (William I., Prof of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies @ UC Santa Barbara, “Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis,” Truthout, 4/12/16, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis)