Tournament: 1 - derby panther forensics invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: maize aw | Judge: dylan brown
Observation 2 – to better understand the resolution, defining important terms is key:
Pachamama Alliance ND (Pachamama Alliance, global community with purpose of creating a sustainable future that works for all, " What is Social Justice?", https://www.pachamama.org/social-justice/what-is-social-justice
Social justice is the equal access to wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a
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are above all victimized human beings whose location matters less than their circumstances."
Equality – a world created with the veil is the most equal as it prioritizes the whole and not a particular subgroup
The act of space exploration itself is unjust – that means the affirmative is the quickest route to winning fw and the ballot
Ward 19 (Peter Ward, master's in business journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, "The unintended consequences of privatising space", Science Focus, 11/6/19, https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/the-unintended-consequences-of-privatising-space/) el
The forces driving human expansion into space are changing. For decades, the world's
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the necessary small steps now to avoid potentially disastrous consequences in the future.
Klein 21 (Lauren Klein, Spring contributor, "The billionaire space race showcases the failures of capitalism", Spring, 7/23/21, https://springmag.ca/the-billionaire-space-race-showcases-the-failures-of-capitalism) el
Discussions of space travel inevitably involve talk of dreams. Shortly after launching into space
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the billionaires, it means taking on the capitalist system which produces them.
Heilweil 21 (Rebecca Heilweil, reporter for Open Sourced covering emerging technologies artificial intelligence and logistics, "How bad is space tourism for the environment? And other space travel questions, answered", Recode Vox, 7/25/21, https://www.vox.com/recode/22589197/space-travel-tourism-bezos-branson-rockets-blue-origin-virgin-galactic-spacex~~#:~~:text=The20emissions20of20a20flight,space20tourism20becomes20more20popular.) el
5. What impact will commercial space travel have on the environment? The emissions
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thinks the environmental costs are reason enough not to take such a trip.
United Nations 17 (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, "Climate Change and Social Inequality", 10/17, https://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2017/wp152_2017.pdf) el
4 Effects of inequality on exposure to climate change hazards In general, exposure tends
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of these resources. As a result, their relative situation worsens further.
Bartels 21 (Meghan Bartels, senior writer and science journalist, "Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin faces scathing criticism of safety and culture", Space, 10/1/21, https://www.space.com/blue-origin-safety-culture-concerns) el
With Blue Origin's second crewed flight less than two weeks away, the company is
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on Earth, and certainly not as our springboard to a better one."
Oduntan 16 (Gbenga Oduntan, International Commercial Law at the University of Kent, "SpaceX explosion shows why we must slow down private space exploration until we rewrite law", The Conversation, 9/12/16, https://theconversation.com/spacex-explosion-shows-why-we-must-slow-down-private-space-exploration-until-we-rewrite-law-65019) el
The recent explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a test on a launchpad
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exploration may have to proceed more slowly until these important issues are sorted.