The Art of Being Affirmative

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The Art of Being Affirmative

• Wind Energy
• Production Tax Credits
• MUDI 2008

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Overview

• What does affirmative mean
• The Wind Production Tax Credit 1AC

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What does affirmative mean?

• Dictionary.com says
• 1.affirming or assenting asserting the truth,
  validity, or fact of something.
• 2.expressing agreement or consent assenting an
  affirmative reply.
• 3.positive not negative.
• Close, but not close enough

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Two views of being affirmative

• To say yes to the resolution
• The case is a scientific/logical response to the
  question of the resolution
• To illustrate the resolution
• The case is an artistic expression of the
  resolution

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Logical Approach

• Argument Structure
• Claim
• Warrant
• Impact
• All affirmatives must have
• Significance
• Harms
• Inherency
• Topicality
• Solvency

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Artistic Approach

• The affirmative must paint a picture of the
  resolution
• Too broad to say yes in all cases
• Artists, painters, and fiction writers do the
  same thing. Lets take a look

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An artist is told to create an image of Paris

• A landmark

• The skyline

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Your Affirmative

• Wind Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC)
• Tax breaks to energy companies like We Energy for
  using windmills to produce electricity
• Exists now
• Needs to be permanent
• Good for solvency

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Advantages/Harms

• Energy Advantage
• Oil shortage leads to energy and resource wars
  that cause extinction
• High oil prices gt terrorism
• Environment Advantage
• Taking fossil fuels is bad for the environment
• Destroys ecosystem and all life
• Warming gt conflict and war

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Advantages/Harms

• Competitiveness
• Europe
• Europe rocks at wind energy
• Race to the top
• Key to economic competition/dominance
• Key to hegemony
• US Heg is key to preventing this
• The economy
• More jobs
• Investor predictability

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Solvency

• Permanence key
• Preempts distance and tech and bad methods
• Advantage solvency is built into the advantages