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1ACTournament: La Costa | Round: 1 | Opponent: Torrey Pines AW | Judge: Patterson, A 1AC LOWELL ZBPLAN TEXT Text: The Export Import Bank of the United States should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Mexico by investing in non-corn biofuels including jatropha.CONTENTION 1 IS WARMING Warming is real and anthropogenic | 12/7/13 |
1ACTournament: Stanford | Round: 2 | Opponent: Nevada Union BP | Judge: awesome guy Plan text: The Export-Import bank of the United States should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Mexico by providing loans to finance the development of non-corn biofuels including jatropha.CONTENTION 1 IS WARMING Warming is real and anthropogenicBraganza 11 (Karl, Manager, Climate Monitor at the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia, The Bureau presently operates under the authority of the Meteorology Act 1955, which requires it to report on the state of the atmosphere and oceans in support of Australia’s social, economic, cultural and environmental goals. His salary is not funded from any external sources or dependent on specially funded government climate change projects. Karl Braganza does not consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations "The greenhouse effect is real: here’s why," 6/14/11, http://theconversation.edu.au/the-greenhouse-effect-is-real-heres-why-1515) In public discussions of climate change, the full range and weight of evidence underpinning Warming reaches its tipping point within twenty-five years—9,200 studies prove—investment now is keyVarma 9/30 The first is that the carbon accumulation in the atmosphere and resulting global warming have Tipping points prevent adaptation—significant emission cuts are keyHansen 8 Fast feedbacks—changes that occur quickly in response to temperature change—amplify the Carbon cycling means warming depends only on future emissions—CO2 reductions now are keyMatthews and Solomon 4/26 Understanding how decreases in C02 emissions would affect global tem- peratures has been hampered Mexico solve biofuels best—Genetic diversity— 300 eco-friendly jatropha strains spread with more investmentRosenberg 9 Mexico passed a law last year to push developing biofuels that don’t threaten food security US technology—Mexico has massive resources but needs more cooperationWood 10 Mexico is a country with vast natural resources for the production of biofuels, resulting Three internal links to warming:Carbon farming—Jatropha plantations halt the current trend of C02 emissions—each hectare captures 25 tons of C02 per yearHarball and Climatewire 13 (Elizabeth, news source that provides coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society, "Could Carbon Farms Reverse Global Warming? ", Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=could-carbon-farms-reverse-global-warming-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=could-carbon-farms-reverse-global-warming, accessed 12/20/13, TC) A recent study by German researchers presents the possibility of "carbon farming" as i. Bioplastics—jatropha waste-products revolutionize biodegradable polymersHalliday 10 Industry has long been wary of mass-producing biodegradable plastics, not only because of deficient technology, but also because of the high costs usually associated with them. Biotechnology is key to stop global warming—establishes a transition into sustainable energy and resource consumptionOECD 11(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-http://www.oecd.org/¶ "Industrial Biotechnology and Climate Change" 11-7-2011 http://www.oecd.org/sti/biotech/49024032.pdf) The impact is global warming.Ocean acidification causes mass extinctionsWard 10 (Peter, PhD, professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, paleontologist and NASA astrobiologist, Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps, June 29, 2010) That causes extinction—methane explosions and rapid warming are 10,000 times more destructive than nuclear warRyskin 3 The consequences of a methane-driven oceanic eruption-for ma- rine and CONTENTION 2 IS SOLVENCY The Export-Import bank is a crucial link between the developed and developing worlds—renewable technology transfer fosters social responsibility and global spilloverGong 6 First, climate change is a result of aggregate emissions and aggregate concentrations ¶ of Mexico and US firms say yes—biofuel law creates stable investment groundFelix 8 Energy companies that have already developed the know-how and technology abroad or Yes transition—jatropha biofuels cost less than oil now and productivity’s still increasingLane 12 In California, SG Biofuels announced at Advanced Biofuels Markets that it has expanded its global network of hybrid trial and agronomic research sites to 15 with the addition of eight new JMax Knowledge Centers in Guatemala, Brazil and India, and has achieved costs of 2499 per barrel or less across three continents. Genetic improvements make current jatropha strains successful—prefer the more recent evidenceSGB 13 Jatropha curcas is a non-edible shrub that is native to Central America. Its seeds contain high amounts of oil that can be processed to produce a high- quality energy feedstock for use in biodiesel, renewable jet fuel or specialty products. Because it is a non-edible feedstock and can be effectively harvested on abandoned land that is considered undesirable for food crops, it does not compete with global food supplies. Focusing on the details and inner-workings of government policy-making is productive – critical approaches can’t resolve real world problems like poverty, racism and warMcClean 1 Yet for some reason, at least partially explicated in Richard Rorty’s Achieving Our Country CONTENTION 3 IS IMPACT FRAMING Nuclear war is obsolete:A. Deterrence, peacekeeping, and tradeGoldstein 11 "War" is a fuzzy category, shading from global conflagrations to neighborhood turf B. Nuclear weapons deter all war – empirics proveTepperman, LL.M. in International Law from NYU, former Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs, 2009 C. Climate change is the root cause of their impacts—it’s a threat multiplierScheffran 9 The 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) And no miscalculation—threat of nuclear annihilation decreases margin for unpredictabilityWaltz 81 Uncertainty about outcomes does not work decisively against the fighting of wars in con-ventional worlds Nuclear war doesn’t cause extinction:Nuclear Winter Theory FlawedBall, Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, 2006 No Impact to FalloutMartin, research associate in the Dept. of Mathematics at Australian National University, 1984 | 2/8/14 |
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