Affirmatives 2014-2015
Resolved: The United States federal government should increase incentives for the exploration and/or development for the earth’s oceans.
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Arctic
Plan: The United States federal government should establish a scientific hydrocarbon development mission in the Arctic to facilitate cooperation with the Russian federation.
Arctic Ports (Warming, Economy, Globalization)
Plan: The United States federal government should fund the development of deep-water Arctic ports in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in Alaska’s North Coast
Desalination (Economy/Jobs, Agriculture/Food, Water Wars)
Plan Mandate: The USFG should allocate US$1.5 billion to building 20 major desalination plants across the coastlines of America, including California, New Jersey, Florida, and New York, creating 1.2 billion gallons of water per day or 438 billion gallons per year at peak efficiency.
Fiat: We claim the right to fiat and to define all terms. Affirmative speeches will serve as legislative intent for purposes of plan interpretation.
Community Fisheries (EcoFeminism, Neoliberalism)
Thus the plan: the United States federal government should substantially increase its development of oceanic Community Based Fisheries Management
Iron Fertilization/GeoEngineering (Warming+)
Integrated Ocean Observation System (IOOS) (Adv. Climate Adaptation, Coral Reefs, Oil Spills)
Thus the plan: The United States federal government should increase funding for Integrated Ocean Observation System data collection, data sharing and agency integration.
Algae Biofuels (Adv. Warming, Food)
The United States Federal Government should substantially increase incentives for algae biofuel production.
Marine Reserves/EBSAs/MPAs (Adv Deep Ecology, Anthropocentrism)
Thus we present the following plan: The United States Federal Government should designate ecologically and biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) in US territorial waters as marine protected areas (MPAs).
Pirates (Adv Heteronormativity, Terrorism)
Thus we affirm exploration of the ocean as a site of piracy.
MSP/Coordinated Mapping (Adv Naval Readiness, Biodiversity)
The United States federal government should develop a nationally coordinated marine spatial planning system
NOAA (Adv STEM, Science Diplomacy)
Plan: United States federal government should substantially increase NOAA’s exploration of the Earth’s oceans.
Offshore SMR (Adv Global Stability/Wars, Climate Change/Warming, Desalinization)
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its development of offshore small modular nuclear reactors through alternative financing.
Thai Fisheries (Adv Slavery, Genocide, China Coop)
Thus we present the following plan: The United States Agency for International Development should offer economic and political assistance to the Kingdom of Thailand to develop their fishing industry in accordance with environmental mainstreaming with the objective of ending forced labor and unsustainable practices
Nanotech (Adv Warming Effects, Food, Disease, Post Humanism)
Thus the plan: The United States federal Government should implement a centralized Ocean Nanorecycling Program under NOAA jurisdiction
OTECH (Adv Warming, Energy, Desalinization, Agriculture/Food)
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its use of functional Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion demonstration projects.
Offshore Wind (Climate Change, Peak Oil)
Plan: The USfg should offer tax breaks to companies who develop Offshore Windfarms in US territorial waters.
Kritik Affirmatives:
Afrofuturism (Solves Linear Temporality, Metaphor)
Thus the advocacy, The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration of the Earth’s oceans via an encounter with the Drexciyans.
Middle Passage/Zong (Solves instrumentalism, haunting, counter-monumentalism)
We advocate that the United States federal government should endlessly explore the oceans as a site of the Middle Passage. This statement doesn’t define limiting borders of our advocacy – we affirm the resolution, but as a crosscurrent, not a monument.
Red Atlantic/Turtle Island/Indiginous Peoples (Adv Coloniality, Genocide)
we advocate that the United States federal government should endlessly explore the oceans as a site of the Red Atlantic. This statement doesn’t define limiting borders of our advocacy – we affirm the resolution, but as a crosscurrent, not a monument.
Ocean Feminism (Imperialism, Fem IR, Structural Violence, Biodiversity)
The ocean is a symbol of birth and rebirth and our smallness in this infinite universe – ecofeminism recognizes this link between women and nature. Only by affirming the ocean as a space in which all life intersects can we hope to combat the violation of nature and the life within it. Therefore, the United States federal government should increase its development of the Earth’s oceans through a feminist environmentalism based on a notion of nature as Prakriti. We’ll clarify.
Thai Fisheries K (Adv Slavery, Structural Violence, Responsible Consumerism)
We affirm an end to the violent practices occurring in the fishing industry of Thailand through an exploration of the proto-genocidal practices in the ocean.Our affirmative is an act of recognition and a rejection of the ignorance and denial in Western society. We use the moment of decision to engage in practices that perpetuate violence as a starting point for criticism.
Heidegger (ontological exploration/inquiry)
Counter-Resolved: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration of the Earth’s oceans.
Resolve is not to be found in a willful action, but as a steadfastedness to allow the revelations of being. This allows for a new mode of political action outside the arbitrary whims of the sovereign ego
Trash (poetry rejecting consumerism of ocean, personification of Ocean as wailing mother)
Reject Policies to develop ocean.