Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge:
Parkinson 13, founding editor of RenewEconomy.com.au, an Australian-based website that provides news and analysis on cleantech, carbon, and climate issues. (Giles Parkinson "How the Solar PV Industry Became a Global Phenomenon" 9/12/13 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/12/how-the-solar-pv-industry-became-a-global-phenomenon/-http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/12/how-the-solar-pv-industry-became-a-global-phenomenon/) NKG
The recent slew of quarterly reports from the world’s major solar PV manufacturers have delivered
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generate a return in the "higher mid teens" for these projects.
Current development policies in Mexico are based on neoliberal paternalistic attitudes which result in environmental destruction and the displacement of whole communities
Giovannini 2013 ~Michela Giovannini is a PhD candidate at the University of Trento, Italy, and collaborates with Euricse, "Social Enterprises for buen vivir in Chiapas: An Alternative to Development"¶ 28 Jun 2013 http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/search/D23EF0647F3BCD28C1257B980034954C?OpenDocument-http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/search/D23EF0647F3BCD28C1257B980034954C?OpenDocument~~
Natural resources located in territories inhabited by indigenous communities are often exploited by national governments
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(2009), and it inspires several public policies in these two countries.
Specifically, these policies disenfranchise indigenous communities in energy decision making, resulting in water deprivation and elite commodification of nature
Carruthers, 8 Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University (David V. Carruthers "Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice" February 2008) NKG
Today we call the ongoing expansion of the capitalist world system "globalization." Globalization
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by prominent intergovernmental organizations or transnational NGOs. When nature is commodified and privatized
, elites create wealth for themselves and poverty for others whose life ways have depended
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we ought to interpret and interact with nature are constructed by all peoples.
Nixon ’9 ~Rob, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "NEOLIBERALISM, SLOW VIOLENCE, AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PICARESQUE", MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 55 number 3, Fall 2009, http://sustainabilityparadox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2010/09/Nixon-Neoliberalism2.pdf-http://sustainabilityparadox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2010/09/Nixon-Neoliberalism2.pdf~~
The picaresque proves uncannily effective at dramatizing another critical dimension to the environmentalism of the
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casualties claimed, as at Bhopal, by the forces of slow violence.
This outweighs any impact on probability and magnitude – risk evaluation is empirically biased towards white male elites who downplay local environmental hazards that destroy marginalized communities
Verchick 96 ~Robert, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri — Kansas City School of Law; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989, "IN A GREENER VOICE: FEMINIST THEORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE" 19 Harv. Women’s L.J. 23~
Because risk assessment is based on statistical measures of risk, policymakers view it as
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military’s poisoning of Indian land as genocide. n330 ~*85~ 3.
Fettweis, professor of political science at Tulane University, 2006
(Christopher J., December, "A Revolution in International Relation Theory: Or, What If Mueller Is Right?" International Studies Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, EB)
However, one need not be convinced about the potential for ideas to transform international
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, perhaps scholars should ask why anyone should believe that it could not.
Ilaca and Santos 11 (Christiane llaca is Co-Manager Project Ciudad Rural, Puebla Mexico and SEDESO Ministry of Social development, Puebla, Mexico. Carlos Santos has a Masters in Science, Florida Institute of Technology, the U.S.A. and Systems Engineer, UDLA, Mexico. He is also a freelance IT consultant "Sustainable Development as an Aid in Fighting Poverty" 2011 http://www.interpv.net/market/market_view.asp?idx=75326part_code=)//NKG-http://www.interpv.net/market/market_view.asp?idx=75326part_code=)//NKG
During the last decade, few projects related to PV technology have been made to
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changes; poor people just need the tools to be able to develop.
van Campen et al, 2k Environment and Natural Resources Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Bart Van Campen; Daniele Guidi, Renewable Energy Consultant; Gustavo Best, Environment and Natural Resources Service "Solar Photovoltaics for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development" 2000 http://www.fao.org/uploads/media/Solar20photovoltaic20for20SARD.pdf-http://www.fao.org/uploads/media/Solar photovoltaic for SARD.pdf) NKG
The findings of this study have led the authors to believe that the time is
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organizations. PV systems adapt easily to these different types of institutional arrangements.
ASES, 99 leads national efforts to increase the use of solar energy, energy
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1999 solar.nmsu.edu/publications/mexicopaper.pdf)NKG
Many of the principles on which the Mexico Renewable Energy Program are based stem from
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need less and less assistance and eventually are able to handle everything themselves.
Abramsky no date ~Kolya Abramsky (UK) is a freelance educator, organizer, and researcher on the global energy sector. He focuses on the sector’s land, labour and ownership struggles, viewing energy as a key means of production and subsistence, he worked in South Africa with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s education department, co-organizing an International Seminar on Climate Change and Class Struggle during COP 17, and an International Conference on Building a Socially-owned Renewable Energy Sector in South Africa. In 2010, he organized, with a regional Educational Institute of the Austrian Communist Party, an international seminar on Energy, Work, Crisis and Resistance. Kolya edited two books: Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Postpetrol World (2010), and Restructuring and Resistance: Diverse Voices of Struggle in Western Europe (2001). In 2006, he worked at the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, in Denmark. He was active in "anti-globalization" movements from 1996 -2004. "Beyond Copenhagen: ¶ Common Ownership, Reparations, Degrowth and Renewable ¶ Energy Technology Transfer" http://www.folkecenter.net/mediafiles/folkecenter/pdf/beyond-copenhagen-degrowth-reparations.pdf~~
The Division of Labour in the Renewable Energy Sector ¶ A rapid global expansion of
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¶ important resources are under some form of collective and ¶ decommodified control.