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1AC - Decentralized SolarTournament: Georgetown | Round: 1 | Opponent: McDonogh RS | Judge: Shifting the scale fosters empirically successful grassroots movements against the environmental injustice of elites 1AC – Plan 1AC – Solvency | 10/6/13 |
1AC - Decentralized SolarTournament: Lexington | Round: Octas | Opponent: Pine Crest GJ | Judge: Dikshant Malla, Christian Rodriguez, Brad Bolman 1AC – Bronx Science GL1AC – Centralized InjusticeContention one is centralized injusticeCentralized solar energy is inevitable globally – especially in MexicoParkinson 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 Status-quo efforts to provide energy access have failed – millions of rural communities in Mexico face energy povertyIlaca 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 Specifically, indigenous communities in Mexico are disproportionately affected by water deprivation and elite commodification of nature – allowing resource autonomy sustains indigenous culture and is a pre-requisite to environmental justiceCarruthers, 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 This system of environmental injustice creates disposable populations and threatens an emerging apocalypse that demands challenging short term catastrophe focus - visible violence develops from subterranean structures of inequityNixon ’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~~ This outweighs – risk assessment is epistemologically biased towards white male elites who discount the severity of localized environmental hazards in destroying 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~ And, focus on underlying structures producing violence outweighs a one shot linear cause for conflictHendrick 9 (Diane, University of Bradford, Dept of Peace Studies, "Complexity Theory and Conflict Transformation: An Exploration of Potential and Implications", Centre for Conflict Resolution, June) Uncertainty and nonlinearity are inevitable due to inherent complexity within systemsRamalingam et al 8 ~Ben, Senior Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute, and Harry jones at ODI, "Exploring the science of complexity: Ideas and Implications for development and humanitarian efforts" http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/docs/833.pdf-http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/docs/833.pdf ~ 10 1AC – Buen VivirContention two is Buen VivirNeoliberal paternalistic attitudes currently dominate Mexico – but our localized solar energy synthesizes indigenous understanding of planetary flows and western solar knowledge to promote Buen Vivir – a movement that allows us to move away from profit based developmentThomson 10 ~Bob, degrowth activist and writer for Climate and Capitalism, "Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism" Oct 8th 2010 http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-10-08/pachakuti-indigenous-perspectives-degrowth-and-ecosocialism-http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-10-08/pachakuti-indigenous-perspectives-degrowth-and-ecosocialism~~ Decentralized solar successfully creates community tiesBulman, 12 ~Elana, Urban Studies at The New School University, "Community Solar Models Nationwide and Possibilities for New York City", May~ These ties shift the political scale foster empirically successful grassroots movements against uneven developmentTowers, 2k ~George, PhD and professor of human geography at Concord University, "Applying the Political Geography of Scale: Grassroots Strategies and Environmental Justice*", Professional Geographer, 52(1) 2000, pages 23–36~ 1AC – PlanThus the plan: The United States federal government should provide decentralized integrated photovoltaic electrification assistance to Mexico.1AC – SolvencyContention three is solvencyCurrent policies are framed through an elite scale that over codes local struggles with elite interests – the framing of the 1AC around injustice challenges top-down managerialismMcCan 3 ~Eugene, Professor of Geography – Ohio State University, "FRAMING SPACE AND TIME IN THE CITY: URBAN POLICY AND THE POLITICS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE" JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Volume 25, Number 2, pages 159–178~ The plan solves since it goes beyond Solar Home Systems and promotes local integrationvan 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 Multiple mechanisms ensure that the plan solves – it spills overASES, 99 leads national efforts to increase the use of solar energy, energy | 1/22/14 |
2AC AT - Solar Thermal CPTournament: The Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: New Trier WP | Judge: Jack Ewing No waste – PV parts are recycled Even if there is waste, it can be recycled – creates profit and new products | 11/25/13 |
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