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Tournament: Wake | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: ---Critiquing technological advances are regressive and doom the environment to catastrophe --- Its impossible to solve environmental problems without using instrumental rationality. Bronner 2004 Stephen Eric, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement, pg. 160 Critics of the Enlightenment may have correctly emphasized the price of progress, the costs AND transcend the crude categories of technical criteria and slide-rule measurements.7 ---Using environmental concerns to justify collectivism risks global extinction. Woiceshyn 2001 Glenn, senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute, Man: The Real Endangered Species http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticleandid=5301andnews_iv_ctrl=2457 What motivates environmentalists to protect "endangered" species with so much zeal that they AND sic the endangered species. gendered language said in context ---Individualism is key to the environment --- history proves. Wolf 2003 Martin fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, and a special professor at the University of Nottingham., Foreign Policy September 1, 2003, The morality of the market Yet another example of changed sensibilities is environmentalism. The environmental catastrophes caused by supposedly AND companies must adhere to environmental standards if they hope to maintain their reputations. ---No impact ---Future adaptation makes their long term predictions useless. Kling 2002 Arnold, Ph.D. in economics from MIT, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute - 28 Mar Common Sense and Sensibility http://www.techcentralstation.com/article.aspx?id=032802C Environmentalists tend to assume a constant relationship between inputs and outputs. If you are AND enable us to reduce the resources needed to produce valuable goods and services. ---Prices correlate to scarcity --- Market structure resolves their doomsday scenarios. Kling 2002 Arnold, Ph.D. in economics from MIT, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute - 28 Mar Common Sense and Sensibility http://www.techcentralstation.com/article.aspx?id=032802C Not all economists dispute the environmental pessimists. Those that do, however, point

AND , the market will find ways to side-step the doomsday scenarios. ---Prioritizing Human value is good --- Only economic development can give meaningless chemical elements value via the preservation of human reason. Reisman 1992 George, Professor of Economics at Pepperdine Universitys School of Business and Management in Los Angeles. September, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty Vol. 42 No. 9 The Toxicity of Environmentalism It is important to realize that when the environmentalists talk about destruction of the AND will be an artificial world . . . (italics supplied).8 ---They result in a hatred of humanity, causes extinction. Gendered language said in context. Reisman 2012 George, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University, Article in Current Issue of QJAE Squelches Evidence on Environmentalism, June 12 2012,http://georgereismansblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/irrefutable-evidence-of.html The idea of natures intrinsic value inexorably implies a desire to destroy man and AND pure nihilism. And it is the philosophical sum and substance of environmentalism. ---Human exploitation of non human life is inevitable --- Finite resources means our existence is by definition an opportunity cost with other species. Armstrong 2003 Ari, Challenges to Animal Rights, http://www.freecolorado.com/2003/11/animalrights.html I wonder if Crawford lives in a house or in an apartment, or if AND to minimize this killing and harsh treatment of animals. That's our penance. ---Claims of non human intrinsic value are meaningless outside of an anthropocentric framework. Cross 1989 Frank B., Assoc. Prof. Bus Law @ Texas, March, Natural Resource Damage Valuation, 42 Vand. L. rev. 269 Perhaps the argument over the intrinsic worth of natural resources is largely pointless. Political AND the antidemocratic and elitist features potentially existing in concepts of intrinsic value. n143