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| Berkeley | 1 | Opponent: Brophy TJ | Judge: Rajvee Patel 1AC - lay ac |
| Columbia | 2 | Opponent: Brophy TJ | Judge: Andrea Reier 1ac - mining |
| Columbia | 6 | Opponent: Brophy CC | Judge: EZE N 1AC - mining |
| Columbia | 4 | Opponent: Nashua HS South EG | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1AC - mining |
| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: Ramsay DF | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1ac - ag |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Opponent: Charlotte Latin AP | Judge: Joseph Barquin 1ac - ag |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | Opponent: Trinity Prep JC | Judge: Anthony Brown 1ac - ag |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: All | Judge: All Email: mdnair230@gmail.com | 11/21/21 |
0 - DebateDrillsTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: All | Judge: All | 8/14/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: All | Judge: All | 8/14/21 |
JANFEB - AC - MiningTournament: Columbia | Round: 4 | Opponent: Nashua HS South EG | Judge: Faizaan Dossani | 2/19/22 |
JANFEB - ac - layTournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Brophy TJ | Judge: Rajvee Patel I affirm the resolution: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.FrameworkThe framework for this round is util, or maximizing expected well-beingUtil treats everyone equally because it only measures consequencesLives come first under either of our frameworks because death is the largest impact. If we are all dead we can’t do any other framework. Contention 1 is developing countriesOuter space houses tons of valuable resources, it’s about who can get there firstBlair 15, Brad Blair, Expert in commercial space law, Winter 2015, "Space Mineral Resources," National Space Society - Working to Create a Spacefaring Civilization, https://space.nss.org/space-mineral-resources/ Livingston RB AND robust and sustainable space economy, enabling human expansion into the Solar System. The ability to appropriate space keeps developing nations out of these valuable resources- it’s already happened with satellitesGiacomin 19, Nicolas Giacomin, author on space, 12-4-2019, "The Bogotá Declaration and space law," Space Legal Issues, https://www.spacelegalissues.com/the-bogota-declaration-and-space-law/ Livingston RB AND the frequency spectrum depends on International Telecommunications Law and not on space law. This locks in existing global inequality into spaceReinstein 99, Ezra J. Reinstein, Owning Outer Space, 20 Nw. J. Int'l L. and Bus. 59 (1999-2000) https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1500andcontext=njilb Livingston RB AND global wealth distribution thus would be carried forward into the space age. 38 Global Inequality has severe impacts for allDoucouliagos 17 Chris Doucouliagos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University 8-6-2017, "Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/dont-listen-to-the-rich-inequality-is-bad-for-everyone-81952 Livingston RB Contention 2 is the ozoneOzone is improving in the status quoUN 19, United Nations Report, 9-16-2019, "Ozone on track to heal completely in our lifetime, UN environment agency declares on World Day.," UN News, https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1046452 Livingston RB Even getting into space harms the environment by punching holes in the ozoneMortillaro 21, Nicole Mortillaro · Cbc News · Posted, 4-22-2021, "Rocket launches could be affecting our ozone layer, say experts," CBC, https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/rocket-launches-environment-1.5995252 Livingston RB Ozone is key to human survivalEuropean Commission ND, "Protection of the ozone layer" European Commission Official Website, https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/protection-ozone-layer'en Livingston RB Contention 3 is a safety netIn the status quo, billionaires are looking to space colonization to escape earthSpace colonization if only done by private entities will only be accessible to the extremely wealthyManey 15, Kevin Maney, Kevin Maney is a best-selling author, award-winning columnist, and musician still waiting for his big break. Maney co-authored, with Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson and Christopher Lochhead, the 2015 book Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets, published by Harper Business. Maney’s other books include The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future...Just Enough, a 2011 New York Times bestseller. He also co-wrote the most widely distributed business book of 2011, Making the World Work Better:The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company, which marked IBM’s centennial. His other books are Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't; The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM; and Megamedia Shakeout. Maney has been a contributor to Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company and ABC News, among other media outlets. He was a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio during its brief run from 2007 to 2009. For 22 years, Maney was a columnist, editor and reporter at USA Today. He has been a book and writing consultant to numerous CEOs and companies such as Cisco, IBM, IdeaPaint and Qualcomm. He lives in New York. 12-14-2015, "'Star Wars' Class Wars: Is Mars the Escape Hatch for the 1 Percent?," Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/25/mars-colonies-rich-people-404681.html Livingston RB This means that it allows for the extremely wealthy to have a safety net to turn to if things on earth go badMoran 20, Michael Moran, 08-02-2020, "Billionaires could leave Earth behind 'for space colony' as 'climate collapses'," Dailystar.co.uk, https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/billionaires-could-leave-earth-behind-21445413 Livingston RB And the ultra-wealthy are the ones exploiting earth in the squoZimmerman 15, Jess Zimmerman, 9-16-2015, "What if the mega-rich just want rocket ships to escape the Earth they destroy?," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/mega-rich-rocket-ships-escape-earth Livingston RB This leads to worse warming of earth. Billionaires already do it and space means there are no consequences. Warming harms the least well off the mostPaddinson 21 Laura Paddison, 21-10-2021, "How the rich are driving climate change," No Publication, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211025-climate-how-to-make-the-rich-pay-for-their-carbon-emissions Climate Change leads to extinctionSpecktor 19. Brandon Specktor. June 04 2019. LiveScience. "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims." https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html. – Livingston RB | 2/19/22 |
NOVDEC - AC - AgTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ramsay DF | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1ACPlanPlan text: The United States ought to recognize an unconditional right to strike for agricultural laborers by amending the National Labor Relations Act to extend the definition of ‘employee’ to include agricultural laborers.Squo NLRA fails to protect farmer’s rights to strike – plan amends the NLRA to collectively bargainReilly, 11, Penn State Law, "Agricultural Laborers: Their Inability to Unionize Under the National Labor Relations Act", Penn State: Masters of Science, JD Law, URL: https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/'file/aglaw/Publications'Library/Agricultural'Laborers.pdf, 2011 + since most recent citation is from then, KR AND rely on others with experience and knowledge of the NLRA and its intricacies. AdvantageFarmer’s yield is nearing an all-time low – government support doesn’t help the most needy and isn’t a long term solutionFarm-Aid, 20, 9/14/20, "Understanding the Economic Crisis Family Farms are Facing", 2Farm Aid works with local, regional and national organizations to promote fair farm policies and grassroots organizations coordinating campaigns designed to defend and bolster family farm-centered agriculture. RL: https://www.farmaid.org/blog/fact-sheet/understanding-economic-crisis-family-farms-are-facing/, KR AND farmers, as well as other disadvantaged farmers in particular continue to struggle. The aff is key to increase incentives to farm: it increases wages, sets safe living conditions, AND helps farmers expand productsReilly, 11, Penn State Law, "Agricultural Laborers: Their Inability to Unionize Under the National Labor Relations Act", Penn State: Masters of Science, JD Law, URL: https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/'file/aglaw/Publications'Library/Agricultural'Laborers.pdf, 2011 + since most recent citation is from then, KR AND protections they need against agricultural employers as they become more powerful through associations. 2 links:1~ Productivity – Wages don’t destroy consumer spending AND create economic valueJayachandran, 20, 6/18/2020, New York Times, "How a Raise for Workers Can Be a Win for Everybody", Seema Jayachandran is an economics professor at Northwestern University, html, KR AND account for at most a small portion of the improvements in patient health. Prefer the only empirical studyKatovich, Maia, 18, 1-4/2018, "The relation between labor productivity and wages in Brazil:", Scielo Brazil, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo. URL: https://www.scielo.br/j/neco/a/QR5hfyMfL9c3gwQSGGcRyHD/?lang=en, KR AND on positive interplays between market-driven productivity gains and continued institutional interventions. That drives economic confidence – Increased productivity drives farm growth which creates a chain of investment.Wang et. al, 19, "How Farmers Make Investment Decisions: Evidence from a Farmer Survey in China", Sustainability, Shuangjin Wang 1, Yuan Tian 2,*ORCID, Xiaowei Liu 3 and Maggie Foley 4, 1: School of Management, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134, China, 2: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China, 3: College of Business, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA 52803, USA, 4: Davis Business School, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL 32211, USA, URL: https://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=andved=2ahUKEwii17vKue7zAhVdJjQIHUr3D7YQFnoECAUQAQandurl=https3A2F2Fwww.mdpi.com2F2071-10502F122F12F2472Fpdfandusg=AOvVaw1RMvM-hGadn'uoetBxebDi, KR AND from capital input ~33~, and differences in adjustment capabilities ~34~. 2~ Working conditions – squo legislation allows for loss of rights but only unions and the right to strike solveApha, 17, 11/7/17, "Improving Working Conditions for U.S. Farmworkers and Food Production Workers", American Public Health Association, The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.-based professional organization for public health professionals in the United States., URL: https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2018/01/18/improving-working-conditions, KR AND silent in the face of exploitation and continuing to work in unsafe conditions. Increasing working conditions key for increased yields and outputBillikopf, 06, 8/11, UC Berkeley, "Managing People on the Farm", Gregorio Billikopf worked as a Labor Management Farm Advisor with the University of California from 1981 to 2014 (and is now Emeritus). URL: https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7labor/01.htm, KR AND and (3) feelings toward a particular workplace and a particular union. Increasing yield prevents food shortages and nutrient deficienciesTian et al 21— Tian, Zhixi ~principal investigator, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and former research geneticist at Purdue~, et al. "Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture." The Plant Journal 105.5 (2021): 1165-1178. (AG DebateDrills) AND to develop high nutrient and water-use efficiency crops without yield penalty. Food shortages cause messed up interventions that destroy biodiversityTian et al 21— Tian, Zhixi ~principal investigator, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and former research geneticist at Purdue~, et al. "Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture." The Plant Journal 105.5 (2021): 1165-1178. (AG DebateDrills) AND 12 of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions (Friedlingstein et al., 2010). Biodiversity loss causes extinctionTorres 16 ~Phil Biologist, conservationist, science advocate and educator. 2 years based in Amazon rainforest, now exploring science around the world. "Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable to Climate Change" http://futureoflife.org/2016/05/20/biodiversity-loss/.~~ AND as one of the most significant contemporary risks to human prosperity and survival. FrameworkThe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.Prefer it:1~ Actor specificity:A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.B~ No act-omission distinction – choosing to omit is an act itself – governments decide not to act which means being presented with the aff creates a choice between two actions, neither of which is an omission2~ Lexical pre-requisite: threats to bodily security preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose3~ Extinction comes first!Pummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) | 11/21/21 |
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