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Their managerialism creates nature as an artifact – results in continual domination and turns case
Eric Katz, Director of Science, Technology, and Society Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1997 ~Nature as Subject p. 129-131~
The ethical importance of the distinction between artifacts and natu¬ral entities is thus derived
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normative implication for envi¬ronmental policy is that this value ought to be preserved.
Baudrillard 81 ~Jean, "Simulacra and Simulation" p. 134-136~
In particular, our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in
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alliance with men, resides in the fact that they do not speak.
====Eco dualism results in ecocide and extinction====
The Dark Mountain 9 (Uncivilization, network of writers, artists, and thinkers, The Dark Mountain Manifesto, http://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/**, 2009)
The myth of progress is founded on the myth of nature. The first tells
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sated, on the fruits of the horrors on which our lifestyles depend.
Reject the 1ac’s environmental dualisms – this eliminates the concept of an "environment" and solves destruction of the planet
Rowe 96 — Stan Rowe, Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan, 1996 ("From Shallow To Deep Ecological Philosophy," Trumpeter, Volume 13, Number 1, Available Online at http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/278/413)JFS
Organisms can be "alive" one moment and "dead" the next with
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, because the destruction of ecosystems severs the very roots of evolutionary creativity.