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1ACTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: All | Judge: All Mexico has high rates of poverty—are growing Cohen 7/30 (Luc Cohen, editor and reporter for Reuters, “Mexico poverty rate eased to 45.5 percent: development agency” July 30, 2013, http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/29/us-mexico-poverty-idINBRE96S0PZ20130729 es) Mexico's poverty rate fell slightly AND in cities and 800 pesos a month in the countryside.
Desert areas were hit hardest in recent economic declines Economist 11 (a news source for international politics and business, “Making the desert bloom” August 27, 2011, http://www.economist.com/node/21526899 es) The financial crisis of 2008 AND 2009 as orders dried up.
Seawater agriculture has tested effective in Mexican desserts but it will need initial funding to be fully implemented. Dickerson 2008 (July 10h, 2008. Marla Dickerson is the Business editor of the LA Times, as well as a career financial journalist. She was the former business correspondent in Mexico City. “Letting the Sea Cultivate the Land”. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/10/business/fi-seafarm10) gj) TASTIOTA, Mexico - A few miles inland from the Pacific Ocean AND it doesn't distort global food markets.
Poverty Plan creates jobs Whitfield and Hodges 11 (Robert Whitfield is Vice President of Global Seawater, Inc. and Carl Hodges is Chairman of The Seawater Foundation, Co-Chairman of Global Seawater, Inc. “Greening the Deserts of the Earth” http://bioage.typepad.com/files/Greeing20the20Deserts20201-18-10.pdf 9/14/2013GSI’s rp Integrated seawater systems will create job opportunities AND the transfering of skills to local employees.
Seawater agriculture will generate wealth and provide badly needed jobs in Mexico’s dessert communities Poytner 5 (Jane Poynter is a biosphere 2 crewmember, author, TV host and company president of, as well as a consultant for Carbon Sequestration the Seawater foundation. “Clean Development Mechanism Project design Document Form for Afforestation and Reforestation Project Activities. “October 14, 2005. http://www.seawaterfoundation.org/pdf_archives/Attachment201620-20Report20to20UN20on20Mexico20Seawater20Forestry20Project.pdf) gj
The Mexico Seawater Forestry Project will transform AND desert ¶ seawater coastlines around the world.
Job creation is the only way to alleviate poverty Eberhart No date Ashley Eberhart, research associate for Endeavor, and organization to promote job creation “POVERTY REDUCTION ¶ THROUGH JOB CREATION¶ and GDP GROWTH:¶ Understanding the ¶ potential of High-Impact ¶ Entrepreneurship” http://share.endeavor.org/pdf/Poverty20Reduction.pdf Every day, more than three billion people survive on less than $2.50 AND potential to reduce poverty in the world.
Impacts of Poverty are real, significant, and happening right now—outweighs unrealistic future impacts Mumia Abu-Jamal 1998 “A QUIET AND DEADLY VIOLENCE,” 9/19/98http:www.mumia.nl/TCCDMAJ/quietdv.htm
We live, equally immersed, and to a deeper degree AND the equivalent of an ongoing, unending, in fact accelerating,
Hunger Droughts in past years have set the stage for coming food shortages Vidal 12 John Vidal, environmental editor for the UK’s Guardian, “UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013” October 13, 2012 http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/oct/14/un-global-food-crisis-warning es
World grain reserves are so dangerously low AND 10 years ago to under 74 days recently.
Mexico’s acute droughts have decreased food supply and increased hunger in the region. Northern states have been hit hardest. Torres 2011 (Neo Torres is a journalist for Reuters. “Mexico farmers suffer worst drought in 70 years”. November 25, 2011. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/26/us-mexico-drought-idUSTRE7AO18Q20111126) gj The lack of rainfall has affected almost AND analysts say authorities will be forced to raise its food imports to cover lower domestic production
Mexico already has high rates of food poverty Milenio 11, Mexican national newspaper “Hay 20 millones de personas en pobreza alimentaria: FAO” October 15, 2011, http://puebla.milenio.com/cdb/doc/impreso/9044085 Nearly 20 million people in the country are in food poverty revealed AND We need people to get your their own income and not rely solely on additional income."¶
Hunger kills tens of thousand of Mexicans every year Medina 7/13 Victor Medina, writer for the Dallas Morning News and Sports Illustrated, Dallas County Election judge, “Report: Hunger, starvation claimed over 90,000 Mexican lives since 2001” http://www.examiner.com/article/report-hunger-starvation-claimed-over-90-000-mexican-lives-since-2001
Those who oppose immigration reform and a path to citizenship argue AND In Mexico, the average is 13.4 people out of every 100,000.
Seawater farming grows crops and saves and increases freshwater supplies MIT 10 MIT’s Mission 2014 looks into problems and solutions with the world’s food supply, “Seawater Farming” 2013. http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/seawater-farming es
Seawater farming addresses the severe AND increase the body of freshwater for future consumption.
Halophytes have grow successfully in trials Glenn, Brown, O’Leary 98 Edward P Glenn, PhD in botanical science University of Hawaii and professor of wildlife and fisheries science at University of Arizona, Jed Brown, at the Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulation at the Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science and a PhD from the University of Arizona’s wildlife and fisheries program, James W O’Leary, professor of plant sciences at the University of Arizona, “Irrigating Crops with Seawater” August 1998, http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/crops.pdf es
The most promising halophyte we¶ have found thus far is Salicornia¶ bigelovii AND Hence, every part of the plant is usable.
Halophytes can begin to replace conventional crops—studies on livestock prove Glenn, Brown, O’Leary 98 Edward P Glenn, PhD in botanical science University of Hawaii and professor of wildlife and fisheries science at University of Arizona, Jed Brown, at the Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulation at the Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science and a PhD from the University of Arizona’s wildlife and fisheries program, James W O’Leary, professor of plant sciences at the University of Arizona, “Irrigating Crops with Seawater” August 1998, http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/crops.pdf es
Our strategy was to incorporate halophytes as part of a mixed diet for livestock, replacing AND 10¶ percent lower than that of animals eating a traditional diet.
Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards Mexico by investing in seawater irrigation in Mexican deserts.
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Tests have been successful in Mexico Glenn, Brown, O’Leary 98 Edward P Glenn, PhD in botanical science University of Hawaii and professor of wildlife and fisheries science at University of Arizona, Jed Brown, at the Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulation at the Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science and a PhD from the University of Arizona’s wildlife and fisheries program, James W O’Leary, professor of plant sciences at the University of Arizona, “Irrigating Crops with Seawater” August 1998, http://www.miracosta.edu/home/kmeldahl/articles/crops.pdf es
We have participated in builtding several prototype Salicornia farms AND engineering problems in scaling up from ?eld¶ tests to prototype farms.
Salcornia grows in Mexican deserts Glenn, Miyamoto, Moore, Brown, Thomson, Brown 97 Edward, environmental researcher University of Arizona, Seiichi, professor at Texas AandM, specialty in soil and water salinity, David, environmental researcher University of Arizona, J Jed, environmental researcher University of Arizona, T Lewis, environmental researcher University of Arizona, Paul, department of soil, water, and environmental science University of Arizona “Water requirements for cultivating Salicornia bigeloviiTorr. with seawater on sand in a coastal desert environment” 1997. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196397902536
The forage and oilseed halophyte,Salicornia bigelovii Torr., AND The possibility of using this crop for animal production is discussed
Seawater Farming in Mexico will alleviate poverty and hunger in the region. MIT 2010 (MIT’s Mission 2014 looks into problems and solutions with the world’s food supply, “Seawater Farming” 2013. http://12.000.scripts.mit.edu/mission2014/solutions/seawater-farming. 9/3/13) gj
In Eritrea and Mexico, under a different approach proposed by Carl Hodges, AND a similar organization in Europe, is marketing several Sacorlina-based food products (under trade-marked names as “FreshTips”, “Kelp Chips”, “Zeekraal”, “CHIPS UIT ZEE”) to EU markets.
Empirics prove - Seawater agriculture generates food, jobs and wealth Anaruk 08 (Amy, freelance health and environmental writer on the Florida Gulf Coast. “Seawater agriculture: a solution for rising sea levels, food and food crisis”. http://www.celsias.com/article/seawater-farming-solution-rising-sea-levels-food-a/) gj Big problems require big ideas to solve them, but what about two massive predicaments? AND respected researcher of plant biology at the University of California, Davis. – EcoWorld
The poor on the Mexican border depend on binational agreements between the US and Mexico Norman 12 Laura M. Norman et al. 12, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center. Miguel L. Villarreal b, Francisco Lara-Valencia c, Yongping Yuan d, Wenming Nie d, Sylvia Wilson e, Gladys Amaya f, Rachel Sleeter g, b University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA c Arizona State University, School of Transborder Studies, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA d U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Landscape Ecology Branch, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA eU.S. Geological Survey, Texas Water Science Center, Austin, TX, USA f University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA g U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, USA. Mapping socio-environmentally vulnerable populations access and exposure to ecosystem services at the U.S.eMexico borderlands. EHF Future generations living in the borderlands AND distribution should be regulated across the US Mexico border (Norman, Tallent-Halsell et al., 2010).
The US and Mexico have a long-standing partnership in agriculture, makes the US the best to do the plan USDA 7 “Strengthening NAFTA Through U.S.–Mexican Cooperation in Agriculture” March 2007 http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/Mexico/030607StrengtheningNAFTA.pdf With a growing population, an expanding economy AND were valued at $11.5 ¶ billion (see Figure 1).
Bilateral ties are mutually beneficial for the US and Mexico Villarreal 12 Angeles, specialist in international trade and finance, 8/9/12 “U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications” http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32934.pdf U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications ¶ Congressional Research Service AND Exports ¶ accounted for 32 of Mexico’s GDP in 2011, as shown in ¶ Ta bl e 1¶ , and over 80 of Mexico’s ¶ exports are headed to the United States.
We have an obligation to reduce Latin American poverty – complacency represents acceptance – a political approach is key O’Donnell, 96 – (Guillermo, Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies, Academic Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame; “POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA: SOME POLITICAL REFLECTIONS,” http://-www.rrojasdatabank.info/225odonnell.pdf)//HO Extensive poverty and deep social inequality are characteristics of Latin America AND governments but also whatever economic stability or growth has been achieved.
My partner and I are interested in a more productive type of debate—one where we talk about issues relevant to the world and solutions relevant to the issues for a more educational debate space. This means that logical and likely arguments should be evaluated before obscure hypotheticals.
The “any risk” logic of magnitude first impacts would make all decision making impossible—evaluate probability first Meskill 2009 (David, professor at Colorado School of Mines and PhD from Harvard, “The "One Percent Doctrine" and Environmental Faith,” Dec 9, http://davidmeskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-percent-doctrine-and-environmental.html) Tom Friedman's piece today in the Times on the environment (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/opinion/09friedman.html?_r=1) is one of the flimsiest pieces by a major columnist that I can remember ever reading. AND with the time (just barely) to take action.
Goading reactions to imaginary short-term impacts forces us to ignore the long term “slow violence” of poverty and hunger that will continue indefinitely without immediate action Nixon 2011 (Rob, Professor of English at UW-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor p. 2-3) Ours is an age of onrushing turbo-capitalism AND those symbols with dramatic urgency.
Our advocacy for ideal government creates the possibility of a more equitable society by reclaiming autonomy and value to life Ryan 10 (Anne B, trustee of Feasta: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, professor of publications and research at the National University of Ireland, “Enough: A Worldview of Positive Futures,” chapter in FLEEING VESUVIUS OVERCOMING THE RISKS OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE, Douthwaite, Richard; Fallon, Gillian (2011-04-05). Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse . Perseus Books Group. Pgs 392-444, Kindle Edition.) KJS Given the crises of ecology and social justice now facing us, the need for a new worldview AND it might just be enough to bring us real hope. | 1/30/14 |
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