Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: king cp | Judge: kattichka cazeau
Williams 20 ~(Matt Williams, Reporter) "Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the moon and asteroids," Phys Org, April 13, 2020, https://phys.org/news/2020-04-trump-moon-asteroids.html~~ TDI
Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the moon and asteroids In 2015, the
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debate that began with the signing of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967.
====Allowance of private appropriation has sparked commercial space mining====
Wall 15 Mike Wall, 11-20-2015, New Space Mining Legislation Is 'History in the Making', https://www.space.com/31177-space-mining-commercial-spaceflight-congress.html, 12-30-2021
Space mining just got a big boost. The U.S. Congress' passage
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accordance with applicable law, including the international obligations of the United States."
====Space mining by private entities will be full scale in a few years====
Krishnan 20 CA Krishnan, former Deputy Chief and advisor defense industries, 8-6-2020, Space mining: Just around the corner?, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html, 12-30-2021
Fast paced developments are taking place in the field of space mining technology with private
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Moon and in low earth orbit could become a reality within a decade.
Campo 21 Jose A. Martin del, Research Assistant @ School of Law, Doctor of Law, "Finders Keepers: Who Has Say Over Private Property in Space", Texas AandM Journal of Property Law (2021) Available at: https://doi.org/10.37419/JPL.V7.I2.3 AAli
Current space law is unclear as to whether private entities may claim possession of resources
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nations act as a regulatory body for the interest of all of humankind.
Ahmed 18 Nafeez Ahmed 18, DPhil in international relations from the School of Global Studies at Sussex University, an investigative journalist and international security scholar, Dec 12 2018, "We Don't Mine Enough Rare Earth Metals to Replace Fossil Fuels With Renewable Energy", Vice, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mavb/we-dont-mine-enough-rare-earth-metals-to-replace-fossil-fuels-with-renewable-energy
A new scientific study supported by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure warns that the renewable
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electric cars and even copper wiring could face supply shortages in coming decades.
Duran 21, (Paloma Duran is a journalist and industry analyst at Mexico Business News, "Is Space Mining the Best Option to Face Climate Change?"), 11-03-21, Mexico Business News, https://mexicobusiness.news/mining/news/space-mining-best-option-face-climate-change MNHS NL
Going to net zero means that more mining is needed. Experts have said that
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Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon and the Space Launch Provider Blue Origin.
MacWhorter 16 Kevin MacWhorter 16, J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr
A. Rare Element Mining on Earth In the next sixty years, scientists predict
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of mining need not be sacrificed for the sake of the environment.38
Climate change is our top priority – it causes extinction and worsens all impacts
Kennedy and Sharp 21 Ted Kennedy and Robert Sharp, Ted Kennedy is a sustainability professional with over 25 years of experience in clean energy and climate change: 11 years with the World Bank Group in financing, policy, and development of renewable energy projects, 8 years with Endesa/Enel developing carbon portfolios, and consulting firms. Robert Sharp was an assistant at the National Defense University and then Associate Professor specializing in security sector reform, stability operations and counterterrorism with a focus on the Middle East. Founder and Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Quality Assurance Advisor at the UAE National Defence College, Coffey International Development consultant as the Academic Advisor and Programme Manager with the Unites States Security Coordinator, 8-22-2014, Climate Change and Implications for National Security, https://intpolicydigest.org/climate-change-implications-national-security/, 10-18-2021
Over the 250 years carbon fuels have enabled tremendous technological advances including a population growth
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, but in human time it is (was) slow and incremental.