Growth Core UMKC

UMKC SDI 12 1
(DBS Lab) Growth Core

Growth Core Pre Camp Index

Growth Core Pre Camp Index.................................................................................................................. 1
Uniqueness.................................................................................................................................................... 3
Economy Yes/No ....................................................................................................................................... 4
Economy High Now ............................................................................................................................... 5
Economy High Now ............................................................................................................................... 6
Economy Low Now ................................................................................................................................ 7
Economy Low Now ................................................................................................................................ 8
Economy Low Now ................................................................................................................................ 9
Economy Low Now .............................................................................................................................. 10
Sustainability Yes/No .............................................................................................................................. 11
Growth is Sustainable ......................................................................................................................... 12
Growth Not Sustainable ...................................................................................................................... 16
Links ............................................................................................................................................................ 19
Transportation K2 Economic Growth.................................................................................................. 20
Impacts ........................................................................................................................................................ 23
Growth Good .......................................................................................................................................... 24
Growth Good War ............................................................................................................................ 25
Growth Good War ............................................................................................................................ 26
Growth Good War ............................................................................................................................ 27
Growth Good Terrorism 1/2 ............................................................................................................ 28
Growth Good Terrorism 2/2 ............................................................................................................ 29
Growth Good Terrorism ................................................................................................................... 30
Growth Good Environment 1/2 ....................................................................................................... 31
Growth Good Environment 2/2 ....................................................................................................... 32
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Growth Good Environment .............................................................................................................. 33
Growth Good Environment .............................................................................................................. 34
Growth Good Space 1/2 ................................................................................................................... 35
Growth Good Space 2/2 ................................................................................................................... 36
Growth Good Space ......................................................................................................................... 37
Growth Good Space ......................................................................................................................... 38
Growth Good AT Disease .............................................................................................................. 39
Growth Good AT Poverty .............................................................................................................. 40
Growth Bad ............................................................................................................................................. 41
Growth Bad War .............................................................................................................................. 42
Growth Bad War .............................................................................................................................. 43
Growth Bad War .............................................................................................................................. 44
Growth Bad War .............................................................................................................................. 45
Growth Bad Environment ................................................................................................................ 46
Growth Bad Disease ......................................................................................................................... 49
Growth Bad Poverty 1/2 .................................................................................................................. 52
Growth Bad Poverty 2/2 .................................................................................................................. 53
Growth Bad Poverty ......................................................................................................................... 54
Growth Bad Poverty ......................................................................................................................... 55
Growth Bad AT Decline Causes War ............................................................................................. 56
Growth Bad AT Space/Asteroids ................................................................................................... 57
Growth Bad AT Terrorism ............................................................................................................. 58
Misc ............................................................................................................................................................. 23
Transition Solves ................................................................................................................................. 60
Transition Fails .................................................................................................................................... 63

UMKC SDI 12 3
Uniqueness
UMKC SDI 12 4
Economy Yes/No
UMKC SDI 12 5
Economy High Now
Economy turning around nowstrong companies and rich households, consistent
housing market and job growth, and activist federal reserve
El-Erian, 6-8-12
*Mohamed, Is America Healing Fast Enough? Online, http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/the-
economy/articles/pimco-job-creation-us-economy-multinationals/6/8/2012/id/41541] /WFI-MB
Six internal factors suggest that the United States economy is slowly healing. For some observers, these factors
were deemed sufficient to form the critical mass needed to propel the economy into escape velocity. While I hoped that they might be proven
right, the recent stream of weak economic data, including Mays timid net job creation of only 69,000, confirmed my doubts. With this and
other elements of a disheartening employment report now suddenly raising widespread worries about the underlying health and durability of
Americas recovery, it is important to understand the positive factors and why they are not enough as yet. For starters, large US
multinational companies are as healthy as I have ever seen them. Their cash balances are extremely high,
interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out. Many of them are
successfully tapping into buoyant demand in emerging economies, generating significant free cash
flow. Company cash is not the only source of considerable spending power waiting on the sidelines. Rich households also hold
significant resources that could be deployed in support of both consumption and investment. The
third and fourth positive factors relate to housing and the labor market. These two long-standing areas of
persistent weakness have constituted a major drag on the type of cyclical dynamics that traditionally thrust the US out of its periodic economic
slowdowns. But recent data support the view that the housing sector could be in the process of
establishing a bottom, albeit an elongated one. Meanwhile, job growth, while anemic, has
nonetheless been consistently positive since September 2010. Then there is the US Federal Reserve Board. Despite
legitimate questions about the effectiveness of its unconventional and ever-experimental policy stance, the Fed appears willing to
be even more activist if the economy weakens. Indeed, if the Fed makes an inadvertent mistake (the likelihood of this is
considerable, given the countrys complex situation and the unusually uncertain outlook), it is more likely to err on the side of staying
accommodative for too long, rather than tightening monetary policy prematurely. Finally, with the November elections in
sight and subsequently out of the way, some believe that politicians in Washington might finally be in a better
position to agree to much-needed grand policy bargains. In addition to removing the damaging specter of the fiscal cliff
a potentially disruptive economic hindrance equivalent to some 4% of GDP, in the form of excessively blunt spending cuts and across-the-board
tax increases greater political effectiveness would serve to remove other uncertainties that inhibit certain economic activities. Each of
these six factors suggests actual and potential economic healing. So, not surprisingly, they have provoked
excitement in some circles that the US may finally be poised to leave behind the depressing trio of
unusually sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and high and growing inequality.
Economy strongUS productive capabilities are unmatched anywhere
Carnevale, 6-8-12
[Chuck, Invest management advisor and article contributor, The US economy sitting on the threshold of
a new golden age? Part 1 Online, http://seekingalpha.com/article/647141-the-u-s-economy-sitting-on-
the-threshold-of-a-new-golden-age-part-1?source=google_news] /WFI-MB
This leads me to perhaps some of the most important statements I will make in this whole series of articles: The true strength of an
economy lies within its productivity capabilities. In this context, there is no economy that exists today
nor any economy that has ever existed on the face of this earth that is more productive, and therefore
more powerful and healthy, than the U.S. economy of today. But even more importantly, our future
productivity over the next couple of decades is poised to grow exponentially. As this occurs, future
prosperity and the opportunities it brings with it are nothing short of remarkable. Yes, that is an optimistic
statement, but also realistic at the same time. Over the course of this series I intend to provide numerous reasons and evidence behind my
cheerful view of our country's exciting future economic potential.
UMKC SDI 12 6
Economy High Now
Economy recovering nowincreases in manufacturing
Rugabar, 3-2-12
*Christopher, Associated press, US economy shows strength. Online,
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120502/NEWS/105029902/1237] /WFI-MB
U.S. manufacturing grew last month at the fastest pace in 10 months, suggesting that the economy is
healthier than recent data had indicated. New orders, production and a measure of hiring all rose. The April survey from the
Institute for Supply Management was a hopeful sign ahead of Fridays monthly jobs report and helped the Dow Jones industrial
average end the day at its highest level in more than four years. The trade group of purchasing managers said
Tuesday that its index of manufacturing activity reached 54.8 in April, the highest level since June. Readings above 50
indicate expansion. The sharp increase surprised analysts, who had predicted a decline after several regional reports showed
manufacturing growth weakened last month. The gain led investors to shift money out of bonds and into stocks. The ISM manufacturing index
is closely watched in part because its the first major economic report for each month. Aprils big gain followed a series of
weaker reports in recent weeks that showed hiring slowed, applications for unemployment benefits rose and factory
output dropped. This survey will ease concerns that the softer tone of the incoming news in recent months marked the start of a renewed
slowdown in growth, Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to clients. We think the latest recovery is made
of sterner stuff, although we doubt it will set the world alight.
Multiple factors have ensured continued US growthjob growth, debt reduction,
avoidance of spending cuts and tax increases
Sherter, 3-22-12
[Alain, Journalist, OECD: Global economic recovery is 'fragile,' uneven. Online,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57439004/oecd-global-economic-recovery-is-fragile-
uneven/] /WFI-MB
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development projects in a new report that GDP growth across the
group's 34 member countries will slow this year to 1.6 percent, down from 1.8 percent in 2011, before recovering to 2.2 percent in 2013. But
while the group expects economic growth in the U.S. to rise 2.4 percent in 2012 and 2.6 percent in 2013,
Europe's overall GDP this year is forecast to shrink 0.1 percent. "The crisis in the eurozone remains the single biggest downside risk facing the
global outlook," said OECD chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan in a statement. Increasing personal consumption and
moderate job growth is boosting incomes in the U.S., although rising energy prices have muted those positive effects.
Americans also continue to reduce their debt, pinching spending and constraining growth. Investment by
private businesses in 2012 has declined slightly from last year. On a more positive note for the economy, inflation
remains in check and is not expected to rise so long as the Federal Reserve maintains its policy of
supporting low interest rates for the foreseeable future. One key factor that has helped the U.S.
economy is its avoidance of the major government spending cuts and tax hikes that many European
countries have adopted since the 2008 financial crisis. But the expiration of tax cuts and unemployment benefits, coupled with
automatic spending cuts negotiated between Democrats and Republicans as part of a budget compromise last year, could derail the U.S.
recovery, the OECD warns.
UMKC SDI 12 7
Economy Low Now
World and regional economies are declining nowweak economic data from China,
Europe and the US
Sampson, 6-8-2012
*Pamela, Associate press, World stock markets fall after Fed chief coy about new stimulus for US
economy. Canadian Business, online, http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/86859--world-stock-
markets-fall-after-fed-chief-coy-about-new-stimulus-for-us-economy] /WFI-MB
World stock markets fell Friday, deflated after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave no
hint of immediate action to jump-start growth in the world's No. 1 economy. Markets were also bracing
for the possibility of glum economic data from China over the weekend. Bernanke avoided sending any
signals in an appearance before members of the U.S. Congress about what the Fed might do in response
to a slowdown in hiring. The 69,000 jobs created in May was the fewest in a year. Francis Lun,
managing director of Lyncean Holdings in Hong Kong, said markets were "slightly disappointed" that
Bernanke had not said the Fed would extend its Treasury bond-buying program, known as quantitative
easing. The program injects money into the financial system, lowering interest rates to spur lending and
growth. An effort by China on Thursday to reverse a sharp economic downturn with a surprise cut to a
benchmark lending rate failed to rejuvenate markets because it may have been too little, Lun said. "The
economy is slowing much faster than people expected," he said. In early European trading, Britain's
FTSE 100 dropped 1 per cent to 5,394.44. Germany's DAX lost 1.3 per cent to 6,063.96 and France's CAC-
40 fell 1.6 per cent to 3,023.37. U.S. futures augured a lower open on Wall Street. Dow Jones industrial
futures fell 0.7 per cent to 12,316 and S&P 500 futures lost 0.8 per cent at 1,299.60. The losses echoed
those in Asia. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 2.1 per cent to close at 8,459.26. South Korea's Kospi dropped
0.7 per cent to 1,835.64. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 1.1 per cent to 4,063.70. Hong Kong's Hang Seng
shed 0.9 per cent to 18,502.34. Benchmarks in mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, the
Philippines and New Zealand also fell. Aside from an interest rate cut, China's central bank also said
Thursday that commercial banks would be allowed to pay higher deposit rates than those dictated by
the government. That could help to shift money to households from China's hugely profitable
government-owned banks. Analysts said the moves suggest May trade and economic data due to be
released in the next few days could be unexpectedly weak, spurring authorities to take more urgent
action. China has rolled out a series of measures to stimulate the economy after growth fell to a nearly
three-year low of 8.1 per cent in the first quarter and April factory output grew at its slowest rate since
the 2008 crisis. Private sector analysts expect this quarter's growth to fall further. Andrew Sullivan of
Piper Jaffray Asia in Hong Kong said in a commentary that investor concerns remained focused on
Europe where a lingering financial crisis has now infected Spain and its banks. Global investors are
worried that the recession-hit country can't come up with the money needed to save its banks
without bankrupting the government. Expectations are rising that Spain's leaders will have to seek an
international bailout for banks swaying under the weight of bad real estate loans.
UMKC SDI 12 8
Economy Low Now
Growth declining nowreducing oil demand
Fahey, 6-8-12
*Jonathan, Bloomberg Businessweek, Oil price tumbles on weak economy. Online,
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9V927R81.htm] /WFI-MB
The price of oil fell below $83 Friday on the prospect of weak economic growth with no immediate
assistance from the U.S Federal Reserve. U.S. benchmark crude fell $1.93 to $82.89 per barrel in
midday trading in New York. The last time oil closed below $83 was in early October of 2011. Brent
crude, which is used to make gasoline in much of the U.S., fell 2 percent to $97.91. Global economic
growth is weakening. Europe remains mired in a debt crisis and growth in the U.S. and China has
slowed. That reduces demand for oil to make fuels for shippers and travelers. Oil prices had risen off
recent lows on hopes that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would unveil a plan to stimulate the
U.S. economy, which would lower the value of the dollar and provide investors with cheap money to buy
oil and other assets. But Bernanke told Congress Thursday that no plan was imminent. That sent the
value of the dollar higher, making oil look more expensive to foreign buyers.
Global Economy failing nowEurozone recession and Greece exit speculation
Jarvis, 5-24-12
*Gail Marks, Chicago Tribune Award winning Finance Columnist, Eurozone's turmoil threatens global
economy. Online, http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/ct-biz-0523-gail-market--
20120524-11,0,6654603.column] /WFI-MB
While the eurozone's debt issues are not new, recessions are deepening, political instability is growing,
and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned Tuesday that without quick
action by European leaders and the European Central Bank, Europe could go into a severe recession
with global ramifications. New concerns focus on potential runs on banks. In Greece, individuals
fearing that their country might leave the eurozone have been removing money from accounts rather
than taking a chance that at some point they might be given drachmas instead of euros. Similar behavior
is suspected in weak countries such as Spain, although analysts are not sure how extensive the practice
has been. "Bank runs can easily get out of control," Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian noted in an essay
Monday on Foreign Policy magazine's website. During the last few weeks, stock market strategists and
economists have been trying to estimate the impact if Greece defaults, leaves the eurozone and other
countries threaten or take the same route. Given the lack of precedent, no analysis is certain. While
many analysts believe Greece would face a depression and Europe's recession would deepen amid
worry and banking trouble, there is disagreement about the extent of infection worldwide.

UMKC SDI 12 9
Economy Low Now
US and global economy decliningEurozone crisis, decreased US manufacturing, and
slow Chinese growth
Cable and Johnson, 5-24-12
*Jonathan and Steven, Reuters News Service, Storm Clouds Loom Over the global economy. Online,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47551586/ns/business-world_business/#.T76LJNVYvuQ] /WFI-MB
The shadows over the global economy darkened this month as the euro zone's private sector
contracted, U.S. manufacturing growth slowed and China's once-booming factories faltered, surveys
showed on Thursday. In Europe, a downturn that started in smaller states on the euro zone's periphery is now taking root
in the core countries of Germany and France, where tepid growth had been the main ballast of support for the euro area
economy. "We are very much in a period of weakening global growth. It doesn't quite feel like 2008 yet
but the danger is we could get there quicker than we think," said Peter Dixon at Commerzbank. The euro zone
composite PMI, comprising the services and manufacturing sectors, fell to 45.9 from April's 46.7, its lowest reading since June 2009 and its
ninth month below the 50-mark that divides growth from contraction. The data sent German Bund futures to a record high as investors sought
relative safety, and the euro neared a two-year low against the dollar. Wednesday's news that European Union leaders have been advised by
senior officials to prepare contingency plans in case Greece quits the single currency also hurt the euro. US momentum slows, China brakes
Europe's woes were felt across the Atlantic. Financial information firm Markit's "flash" U.S. manufacturing Purchasing Managers
Index slipped to 53.9 in May from 56.0, with slower export sales sapping momentum. Markit, which also compiles the
euro zone PMIs, released its U.S. index for the first time on Thursday but has been tracking data in the entire sector since late 2009. "The
cause seems to lie largely with weak export sales, which likely reflects the deteriorating economic
situation in Europe as well as slower growth in China," said Markit chief economist Chris Williamson. HSBC's Flash China
PMI, the earliest indicator of China's industrial sector, retreated to 48.7 in May from a final reading of 49.3 in April. It marked the seventh
straight month that the index has been below 50. The figures signal that the sluggish economic conditions of the first
quarter are set to continue throughout the first half of the year in China's longest slowdown since the
global financial crisis. "The series of highly disappointing April activity data - exports, imports, industrial production and retail sales
indicators all fell short of even the most pessimistic forecasts - the first gauge for economic activity in the current month is a further signal that
internal and external headwinds are still biting into economic momentum," said Nikolaus Keis at UniCredit. The HSBC PMI has provided a
contrast to the Chinese government's official PMI, which includes more state-owned firms with better access to credit. The government PMI hit
a 13-month high of 53.3 in April as exports ticked higher although domestic orders showed signs of weakness. US summer slowdown?
Manufacturing has been a bright spot for the U.S. economy, with the Markit index showing the sector has expanded for 32
straight months. The U.S. PMI index's average reading in 2011 was 54.3. But as the pace of hiring across the economy has
slowed in recent months, economists worry about whether demand will hold up this summer. "We are
seeing slower growth globally, including China," said Sam Bullard, senior economist at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North
Carolina. "Manufacturers remain cautious. We have seen evidence of softer equipment demand in the
first quarter and that softness will likely continue into the second quarter." Separate data showed orders for
long-lasting U.S. durable goods rose less than expected as firms scaled back plans to add machinery and the military
ordered fewer aircraft. Meanwhile, first-time applications for U.S. jobless benefits fell slightly in the latest week, the Labor Department said on
Thursday, though data earlier this month showed employers in April added the fewest new jobs to their payrolls since October.

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Economy Low Now
Global economy failingwill tank US growth as well
Semuels, 5-24-12
*Alana, LA Times Staff Writer, Nervous investors are looking beyond positive U.S. economic signs.
Online, http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-euro-markets-20120524,0,676006.story] /WFI-MB
But investors are turning their back on positive economic signs, looking nervously at Europe's
seemingly never-ending debt troubles and Facebook's flat IPO, wondering whether the global economy
is beginning yet another deep dive. "Although better economic data did not go unnoticed, investors
look forward and not backward," said David Dietze, president and chief investment strategist at Point
View Wealth Management in Summit, N.J. "All eyes are looking across the pond and seeing a bit of a
meltdown in terms of the European sovereign debt crisis." European stocks and the euro plunged
Wednesday to 2012 lows on growing fears about a potential Greek exit from the Eurozone. Rattled
investors then sent major U.S. indexes sharply lower in another volatile trading session, though stocks
were able to reverse losses and finish mostly flat. Investors won't likely see stocks rally in the near
future. The Dow Jones industrial average has slid downhill since May 1, staying below 13,000 for the
last two weeks. The yield on 10-year Treasuries is reaching an all-time low, and investors are even
running from gold, a one-time safe bet that has fallen 12% since February. Problems in Europe have
plagued the global economic outlook for more than a year. But turmoil ahead of Greece's June 17
elections indicates that the country's new leadership may not follow through with agreed-upon austerity
measures. Leaders in Germany, which has the strongest economy in the Eurozone, are finding it
politically difficult to continue to extend credit to Greece. But they also are loath to see the common
currency crumble with a Greek exit. Europe has so far come up with short-term solutions for these
problems. Analysts say that long-term solutions are likely to be more painful than anything the
continent has recently experienced. "The economy is in a downward spiral, debt burdens are rising,
the public is not accepting fiscal austerity, and at some point the Greek situation will come to its
head," said Sara Johnson, an economist with IHS Global Insight, which says the probability of a Greek
exit from the Eurozone is 75%. Though the U.S. economy is not overly dependent on European
consumers, countries in Asia and South America could suffer if there is less European demand for their
exports. That could in turn slow demand for U.S. products. U.S. companies had, by and large, positive
earnings reports this year, growth that does not appear sustainable for the remainder of the year.
UMKC SDI 12 11
Sustainability Yes/No
UMKC SDI 12 12
Growth is Sustainable

Capitalism can be green and is sustainable
Wallis, 2010
[Victor, teaches in the Liberal Arts department at the Berklee College of Music (in Boston) and is the
managing editor of Socialism and Democracy, Beyond green capitalism. Monthly Review, 61.9,
Accessed online via academic search premier] /WFI-MB
At a conceptual level, it is clear that "green capitalism" seeks to bind together two antagonistic notions. To be green means to
prioritize the health of the ecosphere, with all that this entails in terms of curbing greenhouse gases and
preserving biodiversity. To promote capitalism, by contrast, is to foster growth and accumulation, treating both the workforce and the
natural environment as mere inputs. Capital is no stranger to contradiction, however. Just as it seeks to balance market-
expansion with wage-restraint, so it must seek to balance perpetual growth with preservation of the basic
conditions for survival. Despite the ultimate incompatibility of these two goals, therefore, capital must to some extent pursue both at
once. Although green capitalism is an oxymoron, it is therefore nonetheless a policy objective. Its proponents thus find
themselves in an ongoing two-front struggle against, on the one hand, capital's more short-sighted advocates and, on the other, the demand
for a far-reaching ecologically grounded conversion of production and consumption. The green capitalist vision is sometimes
associated with small enterprises that can directly implement green criteria by, for example, using
renewable energy sources, avoiding toxic chemicals, repairing or recycling used products, and
minimizing reliance on long-distance shipment for either supplies or sales. But the scope of such practices is likely
to be severely limited by market pressures. The aspect of local self-sufficiency is most widely seen in the food-services sector, especially in
farmers' markets, which have experienced a notable resurgence in recent years in industrialized countries. This corresponds more to what Marx
called "simple commodity production," however, than to capitalist enterprise. Agribusiness allows residual space for it, but at the same time
undercuts it through economies of scale facilitated by technologies of food processing and storage; political clout, resulting in subsidies; and
reliance on a typically migrant workforce that receives less than a living wage. Because of the resulting cost differences (as well as
inconveniences of access), patronage of farmers' markets is likely to remain primarily a political choice until much more is done to offset the
artificial competitive edge enjoyed by the food-industrial complex. Focusing now on the dominant corporate sector, we
find the green capitalist agenda expressed partly by the enterprises themselves, partly by industry associations, and partly
by government.3 For the corporations themselves, "green" practice takes essentially three forms: (1) energysaving and other cost-
cutting measures, which are advantageous to them in any case; (2) compliance with whatever regulations may be
enforced by a government in which they normally have a large voice; and (3) most importantly, public relations (PR). The
industry associations further amplify the PR aspect, playing an especially vital role on the global stage, where they strive to establish the
common assumptions underlying international agreements. They have worked extensively to influence the United
Nations Development Program, and they also carry out largescale lobbying campaigns to set negotiating parameters for the
periodic Earth Summits (Rio de Janeiro 1992, Kyoto 1997, Johannesburg 2002, Copenhagen 2009). The Business Council for Sustainable
Development thus came into being in the run-up to the Rio conference, declaring in its charter that "economic growth provides
the conditions in which protection of the environment can best be achieved."
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Growth is sustainableInnovation from capitalism and transition to natural capitalism
will solve all problems with current growth
Schweickart, 2009
*David, Loyola University Chicago, Is sustainable capitalism an oxymoron? PGDT 8, 559-580, Accessed
online via academic search premier] /WFI-MB
Hawken and the Lovins agree with Kovel that the current model of capitalism is problematic. Capitalism, as practiced, is a nancially
protable, nonsustainable aberration in human development (Hawken, Lovins, and Lovins 1999:5). But they do not see the problem
as residing in capitalism itself. They distinguish among four kinds of capital, all necessary for production: human capital, nancial
capital, manufactured capital and natural capital. The problem with the current form of capitalism, they argue, is its radical mispricing of these
factors. Current market prices woefully undervalueand often do not value at allthe fourth factor: the natural
resources and ecological systems that make life possible and worth living on this planet (Ibid. 2). All economists, liberal,
Left and Right, recognize that market transactions can involve externalitiescosts (or benets) not paid
for by the transacting parties. All agree that there is a role for governments to play in rectifying these defects. The standard
remedies involve taxation (for negative externalities) and subsidies (for positive externalities). More recently, cap and trade schemes for
carbon emissions have been added to the list. Hawken and the Lovins argue that these remediesproperly applied can work. The rst
step, they say, is to eliminate the perverse incentives now in place. They document the massive subsidies that
governments currently provide for ecologically destructive behavior, e.g. highway construction and repair, which encourages suburban sprawl
and the shift away from more ecient modes of transportation, agricultural subsidies that encourage soil degradation and wasteful use of
water, subsidies to mining, oil, shing and forest industries, etc. Second step: impose resource and pollution taxes so as to reect the true costs
of natural capital. Sweeten the pie by phasing out all taxes on labor the payroll tax, which increases unemployment, and income taxes as
well. The point is to level the playing eld so that more sustainable technologies and more energy-ecient
processes can compete fairly with the destructive practices of industrial capitalism. We might even want to
go further, and subsidize at least initiallythe technologies that reduce the negative environmental impact of our production and
consumption choices. Natural Capitalism is chock full of examples of the shocking waste pervasive in our
current system and of the existing technologies and procedures that could reduce our impact on the
environment to a small fraction of what it is now. Many of these changes are already underway. Many
more will follow if appropriate government policies are adopted. Hawken and the Lovins envisage a bright future: Imagine for a
moment a world where cities have become peaceful and serene because cars and buses are whisper
quiet, vehicles exhaust only water vapor, and parks and greenways have replaced unneeded urban
freeways. OPEC has ceased to function because the price of oil has fallen to ve dollars a barrel, but
there are few buyers for it because cheaper and better ways now exist to get the services people once
turned to oil to provide. Living standards for all people have dramatically improved, particularly for
the poor and those in developing countries. Involuntary unemployment no longer exists, and income
taxes have been largely eliminated. Houses, even low-income housing units, can pay part of their
mortgage costs by the energy they produce. (Ibid. 1). Such a future will come about if we harness the
creative energy of capitalism and let the markets work.
UMKC SDI 12 14
Growth is sustainable profitable technologies will solve for waste and eliminate
consumption
Schweickart, 2009
*David, Loyola University Chicago, Is sustainable capitalism an oxymoron? PGDT 8, 559-580, Accessed
online via academic search premier] /WFI-MB
Hawken and the Lovins have much to say about energy. They argue that vast amounts of energy are
currently wastedand that there is much prot to be made in reducing this waste. They are
convinced that technologies already exist that, if properly implemented, could drastically reduce, and
eventually eliminate, fossil fuel consumptionwithout relying on nuclear power. Many of these are
already protable. Others would be, if sensible governmental policies were put in place.

Capitalism has regulatory components and profit motives that encourage sustainable
growth and use of resources
Fleisher, 2009
*Chris, Valley news service, Is Capitalism Sustainable?: Short Answer: Yes, but With Better Regulation.
Valley news, 1-18-2009, Accessed online via academic search premier] /WFI-MB
"Capitalism is sustainable in every sense of the term," said Anant Sundaram, a professor of business administration at
Tuck, during the opening chat last week. "With extremely important caveats." The conference, which ran Thursday and Friday, posed the
question of whether capitalism is sustainable, as an economic system and force on the environment. In panel discussions,
professors, consultants, investment analysts and other corporate leaders considered the question and
did their best to offer a way forward. Even if the economic circumstances surrounding the question
are not pleasant, most of the panelists agreed with Sundaram that capitalism could function without
destroying the natural world. But it might not be sustainable in its current form. If it is going to survive as a system of production
and exchange, it would have to change, become much more forward thinking and acknowledge new restrictions to keep from gobbling itself
whole. The question is more than a conversation topic for a Tuck-sponsored salon. It is being considered by plenty of people in the Upper Valley
every day. "One thing that comes immediately to mind when you talk about the topic is our whole floodplain on 12A is covered with buildings,"
said Judy Macnab, chairwoman of the Lebanon Conservation Commission, in reference to the Upper Valley's most notorious commercial strip.
That development along the Connecticut River is what happens when capitalist impulses are given unchecked access to the natural
environment, and a testament to the need for strong zoning laws, she said. Commercial interests are at stake, too. Poor design and heavy
traffic have made West Lebanon's Route 12A an unpleasant place to visit, she said, driving shoppers away whenever possible. A better
approach would be the path two other developers have taken in Lebanon. One is David Clem of Lyme Timber Co., she said, who has solicited
feedback from residents in redeveloping the former Bailey Brothers building on Route 10. Another is a project planned near the crest of Route
120. The landowner, L-A Suncook LLC, owns 289 acres off the eastern side of Route 120, behind the former Wilson Tire building. Suncook, a
Philadelphia-based private equity firm, intends to set aside 223 acres for preservation and develop the rest for offices and a hotel. "Both of
those are much appreciated for their willingness to work with us, instead of push things down our throats," Macnab said of the two projects.
The incentive to do something that the community wants has some real economic value, according to P.K. Knights, local operating partner of L-
A Suncook. The company might realize a higher profit if it were to pack all 289 acres with single-family homes, but there is also value in avoiding
a long fight with the city by doing something the community wants. "It might be better to create something the community accepts and move
forward in the near future," Knights said. Going Green More than proper land use, however, there are the buildings themselves.
Sustainable development, as it relates to so-called "green building," was the subject of one Friday morning panel at Tuck.
Environmentally sustainable construction is yet another area where profit motives and environmental
concerns are becoming increasingly aligned, even during a recession, according to the panelists. "Growth (in the
industry) is unbelievable," said Jim Boyle, founder and CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc., a sustainable real estate consultant. The
value of green building construction was estimated at $12.3 billion in 2008, according to the U.S. Green Building Council, and projected to be

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$60 billion in 2010. Dartmouth College has supported a number of sustainable projects and has three buildings on campus certified under the
U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program, a benchmark for green buildings. There are different certification levels that
consider a building's energy efficiency, use of native materials and other initiatives to reduce its
environmental impact. LEED certification has become attractive to companies that want to advertise sensitivity to the environment.
But beyond the marketing opportunities, it doesn't always make sense to get certified, said Paul Olsen, of Dartmouth's Real Estate office, who
was one of the panelists. Getting certified is expensive, costing as much as $100,000 for a project. "In order to be a green building, it doesn't
have to get certified," Olsen said. "That money could be better spent." The financial advantages of going green are something Wayne Bonhag
considers every day as a principal of Bonhag Associates. His Lebanon-based engineering firm is working on several LEED projects for Southern
New Hampshire University, which is watching its bottom line carefully amid the recession. "We are very much aware that we don't want to
spend any more money on the capital side of things that won't be coming back to us in the short term," Bonhag said. Sometimes it doesn't
make sense, he said. One industrial client in New Hampshire wanted to line its roof with solar panels. But when Bonhag crunched the numbers,
solar just didn't seem to make sense. It was too expensive. However, he was able to find another renewable energy option. "In this particular
case, I was able to negotiate a wind purchase," Bonhag said. "It's still green, and yet we were able to do this so they can buy power." Not every
problem is so neatly resolved. Especially in the financial sector. Socially responsible investing has grown in popularity in
the past few years, but has been tested in this recession. The Wilderhill New Energy Global Innovation Index -- a benchmark for green
investing -- is down 56 percent since June 30. By comparison, the S&P 500 was down 31 percent over the same six months. Carey Callaghan
manages the Energy Alternatives Fund, a mutual fund through American Trust Co. in Lebanon. As its name suggests, the fund invests in
companies that, in one way or another, address the twin concerns of climate change and energy supply shortages. Since it was launched last
June, the fund has declined 44 percent, Callaghan said. The financial crisis has hurt short-term prospects for some of his companies, as
addressing climate change takes a back seat to other pressing concerns. The collapse in energy prices has also affected perceptions about the
need to develop alternative fuel. Still, he believes the need for solar technology and alternative fuel sources will not go away. And new
regulations that result from this crisis -- for fuel standards, emissions and energy consumption -- could play to his advantage. If the crisis
has resulted in anything, he said, it is a healthy skepticism of unbridled capitalism and calls for tighter
regulation. "The blind faith of many adherents to capitalism has been put to the test because it's clear capitalism has flaws," he said. "You
need to impose some limits on capitalism." Impure Capitalism The panelists at Tuck largely agreed. One speaker -- Greg Hintz
of the consulting company McKinsey & Co. -- began his introduction with a couple straw polls. First, he asked the audience of about 60 whether
capitalism -- simply as a system of exchanging goods -- was sustainable. Most raised their hands in agreement. Then, he wondered whether
capitalism, in its pure form -- an open-market free-for-all, with no regulation -- was sustainable in terms of social and environmental needs, able
to regenerate the resources upon which it fed. The other panelists wouldn't let him get that far. "No regulation?" Sundaram asked. Pure
capitalism, Hintz repeated. The discussion broke down into a series of qualifying questions. No regulation at all? No contracts? Nothing? The
question never made it to a vote, and Hintz moved on with his talk. But the provocative suggestion of "pure capitalism" never went away. Later,
regulation came up again, and Hintz suggested that if capitalism relied so much on rules and law, then the answer to the conference's question
was "no." Capitalism wasn't sustainable. "I completely disagree," Sundaram said. It is a system that needs regulation to
function, even to establish a clearinghouse where trade can happen, the other panelists suggested. It requires
policing to keep its practitioners' safe from their own worst impulses. The economic system upon
which our modern world relies would be unworkable otherwise. "I won't accept a definition of
capitalism that doesn't have a regulatory component," said Michael Dworkin, a professor at Vermont Law School. "It
becomes meaningless."

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Growth Not Sustainable
Major overshoot nowenvironmental destruction, resource depletion, deprivation
and conflict all signal the end of the growth economy
Trainer, 2011
*Ted, University of New South Wales Australia, The radical implications of the zero growth economy.
Real world economics review, issue 57, Online,
http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue57/Trainer57.pdf] /WFI-MB
The planet is now racing into many massive problems, any one of which could bring about the
collapse of civilization before long. The most serious are the destruction of the environment, the
deprivation of the Third World, resource depletion, conflict and war, and the breakdown of social
cohesion. The main cause of all these problems is over-production and over-consumption people are
trying to live at levels of affluence that are far too high to be sustained or for all to share. Our society
is grossly unsustainable the levels of consumption, resource use and ecological impact we have in
rich countries like Australia are far beyond levels that could be kept up for long or extended to all people.
Yet almost everyones supreme goal is to increase material living standards and the GDP and production and consumption, investment, trade,
etc., as fast as possible and without any limit in sight. There is no element in our suicidal condition that is more
important than this mindless obsession with accelerating the main factor causing the condition. The
following points drive home the magnitude of the overshoot. If the 9 billion people we will have on
earth within about 50 years were to use resources at the per capita rate of the rich countries, annual
resource production would have to be about 8 times as great as it is now. If 9 billion people were to have a
North American diet we would need about 4.5 billion ha of cropland, but there are only 1.4 billion ha of cropland on the
planet. Water resources are scarce and dwindling. What will the situation be if 9 billion people try to use water as we in rich
countries do, while the greenhouse problem reduces water resources. The worlds fisheries are in serious trouble now,
most of them overfished and in decline. What happens if 9 billion people try to eat fish at the rate Australians do now? Several
mineral and other resources are likely to be very scarce soon, including gallium, indium, helium, and there are worries
about copper, zinc, silver and phosphorous. Oil and gas are likely to be in decline soon, and largely unavailable in the second
half of the century. If 9 billion were to consume oil at the Australian per capita rate, world demand would be about 5 times as great as it is now.
The seriousness of this is extreme, given the heavy dependence of our society on liquid fuels. Recent "Footprint" analysis indicates that it
takes 8 ha of productive land to provide water, energy, settlement area and food for one person living in Australia. (World Wildlife Fund, 2009.)
So if 9 billion people were to live as we do about 72 billion ha of productive land would be needed. But that is about 10 times all the available
productive land on the planet. The most disturbing argument is to do with the greenhouse problem. It is very
likely that in order to stop the carbon content of the atmosphere rising to dangerous levels CO2 emissions will have to be totally eliminated by
2050 (Hansen says 2030). (Hansen, 2009, Meinschausen et al., 2009.) Geosequestration cant enable this, if only because it can only capture
about 85% of the 50% of emissions that come from stationary sources like power stations. These kinds of figures make it
abundantly clear that rich world material living standards are grossly unsustainable. We are living in
ways that it is impossible for all to share. We are not just a little beyond sustainable levels of resource
consumption -- we have overshot by a factor of 5 to 10. Few seem to realise the magnitude of the
overshoot, nor therefore about the enormous reductions that must be made.

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Sustainable growth is impossiblecarrying capacity inevitably trumps other resources
for generating wealth
Rull, 2011
*Valenti, Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Sustainability, capitalism, and evolution. The European
Molecular Biology Organization Reports, 2011 Feb 12(2), 103-106, Accessed online via PubMed] /WFI-
MB
However, submitting natural resources to economic analysis does not guarantee sustainable practices.
The first thing to bear in mind is that comprehensive wealth is finite and limited by the carrying
capacity of the Earth. If certain planetary systemssuch as climate, ocean acidity, freshwater and
biodiversitychange beyond a certain limit, it could trigger nonlinear and catastrophic consequences
on a global scale (Rokstrm et al, 2009). Second, the components of comprehensive wealth depend on
each other: for example, building a road through a forest is done at the expense of the forest, that is,
natural capital. Building the road might increase comprehensive wealth but it has a price: natural
degradation, including resource exhaustion, loss of biodiversity and increased pollution. If human
growth continues, these costs could become so high that systemsboth ecological and economic
collapse. Sustainable practices could therefore aim to minimize the loss of natural capital, but if human
development continues unabated, the carrying capacity of the Earth will nonetheless be reached
sooner or later. Rockstrm et al (2009) argue that humanity has already transgressed three of nine
critical planetary boundaries, namely climate change, biodiversity loss and interference with the
nitrogen cycle through industrial and agricultural fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, the combustion of
fossil fuels and biomass and the pollution of waterways and coastal zones. This means that nature is
subsidizing the capitalist mode of development. For a quantitative estimate of natural costs, the LPI
(Living Planet Index) of global diversity has declined by nearly 35% in the past 30 years (WWF, 2008);
hence, the cost during this period has been about 1.2% of species per year. Even if capitalism, as the
dominant economic model, incorporates natural capital into its costbenefit analysis, nature still loses
out; unlimited human growththe central tenet of capitalismand sustainable development are
incompatible (Rull, 2010b). Some alternative modes of human development exist (Costanza, 2009;
Schneider et al, 2010), but these also rely on sustainability.
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Economic growth is not sustainableexploits the Earths environment and
biodiversity in an unsustainable manner
Rull, 2011
[Valenti, Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Sustainability, capitalism, and evolution. The European
Molecular Biology Organization Reports, 2011 Feb 12(2), 103-106, Accessed online via PubMed] /WFI-
MB
Humans are exploiting the Earth in an unsustainable manner, which is accelerating both
environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, owing to global climate change, the
rates of deterioration and extinction will probably increase in the near future. The scientific
community has been highly sensitive to this alarming development and increased the number of
baseline and ecological studies on the impact of humans on the biosphere and proposed various
strategies to alleviate the environmental and biotic crisis. This has triggered vivid discussions about the
potential risks and benefits of measures such as adaptation and/or mitigation actions, ecosystem
restoration, the assisted migration of species or triage conservation (Mooney, 2010). One constant in
these proposals is a sense of urgency, as the pace of change seems to outstrip our capacity to react to
it. There are various crucial issues that limit said capacity: the incomplete inventory of biodiversity
we still do not know how many and which species live on Earth; our deficiency in understanding the
relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; and the inertia of the planet itself
even if we immediately stopped using fossil fuels and reduced CO2 emissions, global climate change
would continue for decades or even centuries (Matthews & Weaver, 2010). Finally, but maybe most
damaging, our social and economic systems are too recalcitrant to even acknowledge, let alone
abandon or reduce their destructive practices.

Growth is not sustainable, it is trumped by environmental limitstransition is key
Panayotou, 2003
[Theodore, Economic Growth and the Environment. Economic Survey of Europe, 2003, No. 2. Online,
http://staging.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/ead/pub/032/032_c2.pdf] /WFI-MB
Will the world be able to sustain economic growth indefinitely without running into resource
constraints or despoiling the environment beyond repair? What is the relationship between a steady
increase in incomes and environmental quality? Are there trade-offs between the goals of achieving
high and sustainable rates of economic growth and attaining high standards of environmental quality?
For some social and physical scientists such as GeorgescuRoegen and Meadows et al., growing
economic activity (production and consumption) requires larger inputs of energy and material, and
generates larger quantities of waste by-products. Increased extraction of natural resources,
accumulation of waste and concentration of pollutants will therefore overwhelm the carrying capacity
of the biosphere and result in the degradation of environmental quality and a decline in human
welfare, despite rising incomes. Furthermore, it is argued that degradation of the resource base will
eventually put economic activity itself at risk. To save the environment and even economic activity
from itself, economic growth must cease and the world must make a transition to a steady-state
economy.

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Links
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Transportation K2 Economic Growth
Transportation infrastructure investment is key to economic growth
Rahall, 2011
*Nick, Ranking member of House committee of transportation and infrastructure, Report: Americas
Crumbling Infrastructure to Cost Economy 877,000 High-Skill Jobs. 7-27-12, Online,
http://democrats.transportation.house.gov/press-release/report-america%E2%80%99s-crumbling-
infrastructure-cost-economy-877000-high-skill-jobs] /WFI-MB
Citing a first-ever report released today by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) that found
Americas crumbling surface transportation infrastructure will cost the economy more than 877,000
jobs, U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and
Infrastructure Committee, renewed calls for Congress to craft a robust surface transportation bill that
provides the investments necessary to tackle the well documented backlog of highway, bridge, and
transit infrastructure needs. While Republicans may hope that if they simply say we are going to do
more with less enough times it will magically make it so, todays report provides the cold hard truth
that Americas economic recovery and long-term competitiveness will suffer if we continue to under
invest in our future, said Rahall. The report paints a disturbing picture of how Americas small
businesses and middle class family incomes will be affected by our Nations deteriorating surface
transportation systems. Slashing investments by one third, as Republicans have proposed to do, will
make the economic impact on Americas middle class even worse than the grim predictions by the
economists in this report. The report finds that a failure to increase investment in surface
transportation over the next ten years will have significant economic implications for the U.S.
economy, resulting in U.S. businesses paying an added $430 billion in transportation costs, household
incomes falling by more than $7,000, and U.S. exports falling by $28 billion. There is no doubt we need
to tighten our budgetary belt and learn to live within our means, but this report is proof positive that
the cost of not addressing this impending catastrophe is simply too high, said Rahall. Instead of
making robust investments in Americas future and strengthening our position in the worldwide
economy, slashing investments in transportation infrastructure is shortsighted and will have a
negative impact on the pocketbooks of American families. Republicans on the House Transportation
and Infrastructure Committee earlier this month unveiled a six-year Federal highway and transit
reauthorization proposal that represents a 33% reduction from current funding levels. The dramatic cuts
proposed to surface transportation programs will destroy over 600,000 American jobs next year alone,
undermine our Nations long-term economic competitiveness, and jeopardize our economic recovery.
By cutting $109 billion in surface transportation investment, the Republican proposal ignores another
deficit just as critical to Americas future the infrastructure deficit, said Rahall. While our
international competitors are moving forward, the Republican bill would put American businesses at a
disadvantage with companies around the world. America can continue to lead the worldwide
economy and win the future, but we must be willing to invest in a transportation system fit for the
21st century just as our competitor nations are investing in their own futures. They are not waiting; we
must not wait any longer.

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Failed transportation infrastructure tanks the economyabout 7% of annual GDP
Davidson, 2012
*Paul, USA Today, USA's creaking infrastructure holds back economy. 3-20-12, Online,
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-05-20/creaking-infrastructure/55096396/1]
/WFI-MB
As the economy picks up, the nation's creaking infrastructure will increasingly struggle to handle the
load. That will make products more expensive as businesses pay more for shipping or maneuver
around roadblocks, and it will cause the nation to lose exports to other countries both of which are
expected to hamper the recovery. "The good news is, the economy is turning," says Dan Murray, vice
president of the American Transportation Research Institute. "The bad news is, we expect congestion to
skyrocket." The ancient lock-and-dam system is perhaps the most egregious example of aging or
congested transportation systems that are being outstripped by demand. Fourteen locks are expected
to fail by 2020, costing the economy billions of dollars. Meanwhile, seaports can't accommodate larger
container ships, slowing exports and imports. Highways are too narrow. Bridges are overtaxed. Effects
'sneaking up' The shortcomings were partly masked during the recession as fewer Americans worked
and less freight was shipped, easing traffic on transportation corridors. But interviews with shippers and
logistics companies show delays are starting to lengthen along with the moderately growing economy.
"I call this a stealth attack on our economy," says Janet Kavinoky, executive director of transportation
and infrastructure for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "It's not like an immediate crisis. It's something
that's sneaking up on us." Freight bottlenecks and other congestion cost about $200 billion a year, or
1.6% of U.S. economic output, according to a report last year by Building America's Future Educational
Fund, a bipartisan coalition of elected officials. The chamber of commerce estimates such costs are as
high as $1 trillion annually, or 7% of the economy.

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Transportation infrastructure investment has massive returns on economic growth
and GDP
Business news daily, 2010
*Staff writer, U.S. Transportation Infrastructure is Roadblock to Economic Growth. 9-27-2010, Online,
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/245-us-transportation-infrastructure-is-roadblock-to-economic-
growth.html] /WFI-MB
An army may travel on its stomach, but Americas economy travels on its highways, railroads and
runways. And the pace at which Americas infrastructure is deteriorating is having a measurable
impact on the U.S. economy. Thats the finding of the U.S. Chamber of Commerces Transportation
Performance Indexes, released last week. The index showed a significant decline over the last five
years in how the nations transportation infrastructure is serving the needs of domestic commerce,
international trade and the overall U.S. economy . The survey combines indicators of supply, quality of
service and potential for future growth across all modes of passenger and freight transportation
highway, public transportation, freight railroad, aviation and intermodal to show how well the U.S.
transportation system is serving the needs of business and the economy. The index reveals a clear
downward trend from 2003 to 2008, demonstrating that the performance of our transportation
system is not keeping pace with the demands on that system. Over the period of the index, the
performance of the transportation system increased only 6 percent, while the U.S. population grew by
22 percent, passenger travel grew by 39 percent and freight traffic increased by 27 percent. As our
economy recovers, the nations transportation infrastructure must be prepared to meet the projected
growth in freight and population, said Thomas J. Donahue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce. In fact, a ten-point improvement in the new national transportation could generate 3
percent more growth in the nations Gross Domestic Product. Our index, however, shows that from
now through 2015 there will be a rapid decline in the performance of the system if we continue
business as usual. Right now were on an unsustainable path. The nations deteriorating
infrastructure is placing a major drag on the economy , Donahue said. We must focus on improving
the way transportation delivers for business, removing barriers to maintaining, modernizing and
expanding our nations transportation infrastructure, and driving increased public and private
investment, he said.

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Impacts
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Growth Good
UMKC SDI 12 25
Growth Good War
Eighth, sustained economic downturn causes nuclear world war 3
Austin 9
*Michael, Resident scholar at AEI, The Global Economy Unravels, Forbes, 3.6, p.
http://www.aei.org/article/100187 //wyo-tjc]
What do these trends mean in the short and medium term? The Great Depression showed how social and global chaos followed
hard on economic collapse. The mere fact that parliaments across the globe, from America to Japan, are unable to make responsible,
economically sound recovery plans suggests that they do not know what to do and are simply hoping for the least disruption. Equally
worrisome is the adoption of more statist economic programs around the globe, and the concurrent decline of trust in free-market systems.
The threat of instability is a pressing concern. China, until last year the world's fastest growing economy, just reported that 20
million migrant laborers lost their jobs. Even in the flush times of recent years, China faced upward of 70,000 labor uprisings a year. A sustained
downturn poses grave and possibly immediate threats to Chinese internal stability. The regime in Beijing may be faced with a
choice of repressing its own people or diverting their energies outward, leading to conflict with
China's neighbors. Russia, an oil state completely dependent on energy sales, has had to put down riots in its Far
East as well as in downtown Moscow. Vladimir Putin's rule has been predicated on squeezing civil liberties while providing economic largesse.
If that devil's bargain falls apart, then wide-scale repression inside Russia, along with a continuing
threatening posture toward Russia's neighbors, is likely. Even apparently stable societies face
increasing risk and the threat of internal or possibly external conflict. As Japan's exports have plummeted by nearly
50%, one-third of the country's prefectures have passed emergency economic stabilization plans. Hundreds of thousands of temporary
employees hired during the first part of this decade are being laid off. Spain's unemployment rate is expected to climb to nearly 20% by the end
of 2010; Spanish unions are already protesting the lack of jobs, and the specter of violence, as occurred in the 1980s, is haunting the country.
Meanwhile, in Greece, workers have already taken to the streets. Europe as a whole will face dangerously increasing tensions between native
citizens and immigrants, largely from poorer Muslim nations, who have increased the labor pool in the past several decades. Spain has
absorbed five million immigrants since 1999, while nearly 9% of Germany's residents have foreign citizenship, including almost 2 million Turks.
The xenophobic labor strikes in the U.K. do not bode well for the rest of Europe. A prolonged global downturn, let alone a
collapse, would dramatically raise tensions inside these countries. Couple that with possible
protectionist legislation in the United States, unresolved ethnic and territorial disputes in all regions
of the globe and a loss of confidence that world leaders actually know what they are doing. The result
may be a series of small explosions that coalesce into a big bang.

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Growth Good War
Broad statistical models prove unmanaged economic declines lead to war, tanks heg,
and increases terrorism
Royal 10
[Jedediah, Director of cooperative threat reduction, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction U.S.
Department of Defense, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic
Crises, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and
Brauer, p. 213-215]
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict. Political science
literature has contributed a moderate degree of attention to the impact of economic decline and the security and defense behavior of
interdependent states. Research in this vein has been considered at systemic, dyadic and national levels. Several notable contributions follow.
First, on the systemic level, Pollins (2008) advances Modelski and Thompsons (1996) work on leadership cycle theory, finding that rhythms
in the global economy are associated with the rise and fall of a pre-eminent power and the often
bloody transition from one pre-eminent leader to the next. As such, exogenous shocks such as
economic crisis could usher in a redistribution of relative power (see also Gilpin, 1981) that leads to
uncertainty about power balances, increasing the risk of miscalculation (Fearon, 1995). Alternatively, even a
relatively certain redistribution of power could lead to a permissive environment for conflict as a rising
power may seek to challenge a declining power (Werner, 1999). Seperately, Pollins (1996) also shows that global economic cycles
combined with parallel leadership cycles impact the likelihood of conflict among major, medium and
small powers, although he suggests that the causes and connections between global economic conditions and security conditions remain
unknown. Second, on a dyadic level, Copelands (1996, 2000) theory of trade expectations suggests that future expectation of trade is a
significant variable in understanding economic conditions and security behaviours of states. He argues that interdependent states are likely to
gain pacific benefits from trade so long as they have an optimistic view of future trade relations, However, if the expectations of
future trade decline, particularly for difficult to replace items such as energy resources, the likelihood
for conflict increases, as states will be inclined to use force to gain access to those resources. Crisis could
potentially be the trigger for decreased trade expectations either on its own or because it triggers protectionist moves by interdependent
states. Third, others have considered the link between economic decline and external armed conflict at a national level. Blomberg and Hess
(2002) find a strong correlation between internal conflict and external conflict, particularly during periods of economic downturn. They write,
The linkages between internal and external conflict and prosperity are strong and mutually reinforcing. Economic conflict tends to
spawn internal conflict, which in turn returns the favor. Moreover, the presence of a recession tends to
amplify the extent to which international and external conflict self-reinforce each other. (Blomberg & Hess,
2002. P. 89) Economic decline has been linked with an increase in the likelihood of terrorism (Blomberg, Hess,
& Weerapana, 2004), which has the capacity to spill across borders and lead to external tensions. Furthermore,
crises generally reduce the popularity of a sitting government. Diversionary theory suggests that, when facing unpopularity arising from
economic decline, sitting governments have increase incentives to fabricate external military conflicts
to create a rally around the flag effect. Wang (1996), DeRouen (1995), and Blomberg, Hess, and Thacker (2006) find supporting
evidence showing that economic decline and use of force are at least indirectly correlated. Gelpi (1997), Miller (1999), and Kisangani and
Pickering (2009) suggest that the tendency towards diversionary tactics are greater for democratic states
than autocratic states, due to the fact that democratic leaders are generally more susceptible to being
removed from office due to lack of domestic support. DeRouen (2000) has provided evidence showing that periods of weak
economic performance in the United States, and thus weak Presidential popularity, are statistically
linked to an increase in the use of force. In summary, recent economic scholarship positively correlated economic integration
with an increase in the frequency of economic crises, whereas political science scholarship links economic decline with
external conflict at systemic, dyadic and national levels. This implied connection between integration,
crisis and armed conflict has not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention. This
observation is not contradictory to other perspectives that link economic interdependence with a decrease in the likelihood of external conflict
such as those mentioned in the first paragraph of this chapter.

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Growth Good War
Global economic decline increases the risk of World War III and global nuclear war
O'Donnell 2009
[Maryland native Sean O'Donnell received a B.A. in History from the University of Maryland. He is a
Squad Leader in the Marine Corps Reserve and is currently a graduate student at the University of
Baltimore studying law and ethics, Baltimore Examiner, "Will this recession lead to World War III?" ,
http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-baltimore/will-this-recession-lead-to-world-war-iii,
uwyo//amp]
One of the causes of World War I was the economic rivalry that existed between the nations of Europe.
In the 19th century France and Great Britain became wealthy through colonialism and the control of
foreign resources. This forced other up-and-coming nations (such as Germany) to be more competitive
in world trade which led to rivalries and ultimately, to war. After the Great Depression ruined the
economies of Europe in the 1930s, fascist movements arose to seek economic and social control. From
there fanatics like Hitler and Mussolini took over Germany and Italy and led them both into World
War II. With most of North America and Western Europe currently experiencing a recession, will
competition for resources and economic rivalries with the Middle East, Asia, or South American cause
another world war? Add in nuclear weapons and Islamic fundamentalism and things look even worse.
Hopefully the economy gets better before it gets worse and the terrifying possibility of World War III is
averted. However sometimes history repeats itself.

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Growth Good Terrorism 1/2
Economic growth prevents terrorism, studies provehigher opportunity costs

Gries, Krieger, and Meierreks, 2011
*Thomas, Time, and Daniel, Univ. of Paderborn Dept. of Economics, Causal Linkages Between Domestic
Terrorism and Economic Growth. Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 22, Issue 5, 493-508, Accessed
Online via Taylor Francis Online] /WFI-MB
Economic theory argues that terrorists are rational individuals which choose their levels of violent activity
according to the costs and benefits arising from their actions (cf., e.g., Sandler and Enders, 2004). Because of terrorists
presumed rationality, the opportunity costs of terror also matter. Intuitively, low opportunity costs of violence that is, few
prospects of economic activity lead to elevated terrorist activity, whereas high opportunity costs
result in the opposite (cf., e.g., Freytag et al., 2008). Times of economic success mean, inter alia, more individual
economic opportunities and economic participation. Higher levels of overall growth should coincide
with higher opportunity costs of terror and thus less violence. Conversely, in periods of economic downturn should be
accompanied by fewer economic opportunities and participation and thus by more economic dissatisfaction. In times of economic
crisis, dissidents are more likely to resort to violence as the opportunity costs of terror are low, while
the potential long-run payoffs from violence a redistribution of scarce economic resources which is to be enforced by means of
terrorism are comparatively high (cf. Blomberg, Hess and Weerapana, 2004). To some extent, empirical evidence
suggests that economic performance and terrorism are linked along the lines discussed before. The ndings of Collier
and Hoeffer (1998) indicate that higher levels of economic development coincide with lower likelihoods of civil war, providing initial evidence
that economic success and conflict are diametrically opposed. Considering economic development and terrorism,
several studies found that higher levels of development are obstacles to the production of
transnational terrorism (cf., e.g., Santos Bravo and Mendes Dias, 2006; Lai, 2007; Freytag et al., 2008). Blomberg and Hess (2008) also
found that higher incomes are a strong deterrence to the genesis of domestic terrorism. Furthermore, there is
evidence connecting solid short-run economic conditions with less political violence (cf. Muller and Weede, 1990; Freytag et al., 2008). In
general, the evidence indicates that terrorism and economic conditions are linked. Here, economic
success seems to impede the genesis of terrorism, presumably due to higher opportunity costs of
conflict. In other words, in times of stronger economic performance individuals simply have more to lose.

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Terrorism causes retaliation that guarantees extinction
Morgan 9
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin Campus South Korea (Dennis, Futures, November,
World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the
human race, Science Direct), accessed 9-16-2011,WYO/JF
In a remarkable website on nuclear war, Carol Moore asks the question Is Nuclear War Inevitable?? In Section , Moore points out what
most terrorists obviously already know about the nuclear tensions between powerful countries. No
doubt, theyve figured out that the best way to escalate these tensions into nuclear war is to set off a
nuclear exchange. As Moore points out, all that militant terrorists would have to do is get their hands on one
small nuclear bomb and explode it on either Moscow or Israel. Because of the Russian dead hand
system, where regional nuclear commanders would be given full powers should Moscow be destroyed, it is likely that any
attack would be blamed on the United States Israeli leaders and Zionist supporters have, likewise, stated for years that if
Israel were to suffer a nuclear attack, whether from terrorists or a nation state, it would retaliate with the
suicidal Samson option against all major Muslim cities in the Middle East. Furthermore, the Israeli
Samson option would also include attacks on Russia and even anti-Semitic European cities In that case, of
course, Russia would retaliate, and the U.S. would then retaliate against Russia. China would probably
be involved as well, as thousands, if not tens of thousands, of nuclear warheads, many of them much more
powerful than those used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, would rain upon most of the major cities in the Northern
Hemisphere. Afterwards, for years to come, massive radioactive clouds would drift throughout the Earth in the nuclear
fallout, bringing death or else radiation disease that would be genetically transmitted to future generations in a nuclear winter
that could last as long as a 100 years, taking a savage toll upon the environment and fragile ecosphere
as well. And what many people fail to realize is what a precarious, hair-trigger basis the nuclear web rests on. Any accident, mistaken
communication, false signal or lone wolf act of sabotage or treason could, in a matter of a few minutes, unleash the use
of nuclear weapons, and once a weapon is used, then the likelihood of a rapid escalation of nuclear
attacks is quite high while the likelihood of a limited nuclear war is actually less probable since each
country would act under the use them or lose them strategy and psychology; restraint by one power would be
interpreted as a weakness by the other, which could be exploited as a window of opportunity to win the war. In other words, once
Pandora's Box is opened, it will spread quickly, as it will be the signal for permission for anyone to use
them. Moore compares swift nuclear escalation to a room full of people embarrassed to cough. Once one does, however, everyone else
feels free to do so. The bottom line is that as long as large nation states use internal and external war to keep their disparate factions glued
together and to satisfy elites needs for power and plunder, these nations will attempt to obtain, keep, and inevitably use nuclear weapons.
And as long as large nations oppress groups who seek self-determination, some of those groups will look for any means to fight their
oppressors In other words, as long as war and aggression are backed up by the implicit threat of nuclear
arms, it is only a matter of time before the escalation of violent conflict leads to the actual use of
nuclear weapons, and once even just one is used, it is very likely that many, if not all, will be used,
leading to horrific scenarios of global death and the destruction of much of human civilization while
condemning a mutant human remnant, if there is such a remnant, to a life of unimaginable misery and
suffering in a nuclear winter.
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Economic growth solves terrorismempirics prove
*Thomas, Time, and Daniel, Univ. of Paderborn Dept. of Economics, Causal Linkages Between Domestic
The results of our Hsiao-Granger causality analysis indicate that economic factors - at least in some countries - played an
important role in shaping terrorist violence in Western Europe after the Second World War. In general, we provide support for
policies that aim at increasing the opportunity costs of terror as, for instance, advocated by Frey and Luechinger
(2003). Apparently economic success - especially in Germany, Portugal and Spain - helped to reduce political violence by raising
the opportunity costs of terrorism. Policies that focus on growth and economic development are thus also
potentially helpful in scaling down terror risks. Related policies may yield additional dividends beyond raising economic
status, as social stability and peace may also be affected. For Western Europe, developed welfare states may provide
important institutional channels for disseminating economic success, likewise explaining a link from economic performance to domestic
terrorism.17 Our results also imply that domestic terrorist violence did not affect GDP per capita growth. Affected economies seem to have
been generally successful in dealing with terror risks. Markets and institutions appear to have adjusted effectively to terror risks. In general, we
argue that (i) policies that aim at improving economic status should also be pursued because they may
robustly reduce the propensity towards domestic terrorism at least in some countries. The opportunity costs of
violence and the general influence of economic factors on terror should not be disregarded. (ii) Policies that aim to increase the efficiency of
markets and institutions should also be undertaken because they help to protect economies from the negative effects of terrorism by
increasing markets and institutions resiliency to terrorist attacks.
Economic success crowds out terrorismanalysis of many countries proves
[Thomas, Time, and Daniel, Univ. of Paderborn Dept. of Economics, Causal Linkages Between Domestic
We found that (i) all investigated growth and terror series exhibit structural breaks matching major turning points in the countries economic
and political history. (ii) In bivariate systems, economic growth leads terrorist violence in all cases, whereas terrorism causally influences growth
only for one country. We argued that economic performance appears to influence the terrorists calculus, while
attacked economies are generally resistant to domestic terrorism. (iii) We noted that bivariate causality tests may be prone to inconsistencies,
so we also performed causality tests in trivariate systems. The findings confirmed that economies under attack are successful in adjusting to the
threats of terror, so economic growth is not impaired. With respect to causality running from growth to terrorism, the results weaken those of
the bivariate analysis. Economic performance robustly sways the terrorists calculus only for Germany,
Portugal and Spain, but not for France, Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom. Solid growth in some
countries may raise the opportunity costs of terror, thus discouraging violent behavior, for instance as
individuals found more economic opportunities. In the light of our results, policymakers therefore should not
underestimate the role of economic factors - and the role of the opportunity costs of violence - in
impacting domestic terrorism. For some countries in the investigated part of the world, economic success apparently has
contributed to a crowding out of domestic terrorist violence. However, factors other than economic performance
should also be considered when explaining terrorism dynamics, in particular when the links between economic growth and domestic terrorist
violence are not found to be strong.

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Capitalism generates economic incentives and profit that promotes green energy and
development that solves environmental crisis
Scott, 2012
*Read, NQA, Red, white, and green: an American energy strategy. 1-2-12, Online,
http://www.townsquaredelaware.com/red-white-and-green-an-american-energy-strategy/] /WFI-MB
The energy and environmental crises are not news to the American people. Anyone can feel the pain of our current
dilemma by visiting a local gas station; yet Congress and political leaders across the country are focused on short-term solutions to our energy
crisis. Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail alike have called on President Obama to drill for more oil to ease the pain at the
pump. If the United States does not get serious about alternative energy sources, then we risk not only
intensifying this crisis, but also ceding hundreds of billions in profit opportunities (and millions of jobs) to China
and Germany, who have accelerated their investments in green energy. The German government recently provided one billion Euros in
incentives to companies developing electromobility technology, such as clean vehicles and fuels. Germany is home to some of the worlds most
innovative companies, such as BMW, Bosch, Porsche, and Deutsche Telekom, which are rushing to take advantage of the governments green
technology incentives. With its largest and strongest companies investing in new clean energy technology, Germany is cornering this new
market. In addition, small and medium-sized businesses (Mittelstand) have been able to take advantage of these incentives. German business
has seen the writing on the wall. In the next few decades, clean cars developed through electromobility investments will likely replace
petroleum-powered cars. The energy crisis, climate change, or a combination of both, will force us to move
on to alternative energy sources and more efficient technology. When this time comes, the companies
currently investing billions into technology development will profit immensely. These companies will
become the face of green industry, and the green market will explode in Germany, creating millions of new jobs for German
workers. These arent start-up companies taking a long shot risk; these are giants like BMW and BASF seeing clean technologys potential in
their industries. Its time for the United States to take note. We need to ask ourselves whether, when electromobility becomes the industry
standard, we want to import cars from Germany, or manufacture them in America, with American technology and parts, employing millions of
American workers. Talk of government involvement in the free market inevitably degrades into a debate
over big government vs. free market capitalism. Frankly, this debate holds us back, because it obscures
the enormous opportunity for the United States in green energy technology. President Obama has tried to make
substantial investments in green technology, but this has faced ferocious opposition that would have us maintain our dependence on oil.
Germany has shown the world the power of a progressive approach, making the free market and the
government partners with a mutual goal of innovation. This approach is underscored through Germanys use of
government incentives that encourage companies to innovate, rather than regulations that force compliance. Government
regulation can squash creativity by favoring incumbent technologies. With government incentives, companies that do not
invest in new technologies will simply be at an economic disadvantage when the new industry
expands. Thus, these companies have a competitive incentive to invest, rather than a one-size-fits-all legal
mandate. The German government has chosen not to approach the clean energy market with sweeping regulations, because they realize that
regulations favoring existing technologies will hamper this emerging market. Rather, it uses government incentives to spur
innovation in existing and emerging companies that hope to capitalize on economic opportunities
opened by government investment and support. Government investment and incentives encourage
companies to respond in kind by investing billions in the clean energy industry, which holds seemingly
endless potential for America to regain its status as a global manufacturing giant. In order to promote
an American clean energy revolution, the United States could replicate many of the measures that the German government has
implemented. Given Americas geographical advantagesthousands of miles of coastline, and wide, flat, open plainswind and solar energy
have the potential to emerge as booming American commodities. This has the potential to create millions of new manufacturing jobs, and to


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save the government billions each year in environmental protection and restoration. The environmental crisis is becoming a drain on our
government, with billions wasted cleaning up after the irresponsible actions of a few corporations. Clean energy has the potential
to become a growing, stable market, with opportunities for American carmakers, steel manufacturers, utility companies, and
other industries to build a new market in the private sector. Making the United States energy-independent is vital to our long-term prosperity
and security. Our dependence on oil has involved us with authoritarian and anti-democratic nations around the world, severely weakening us
financially, and tarnishing our international credibility. If we wish to be the worlds leader for decades to come, the government needs
to accelerate investment in green technology and provide greater incentives for public-private
partnerships. This can be the centerpiece of Americas comeback, and a source of renewed strength for our country. Green
investments and incentives will pay huge dividends over time, making us energy-independent, more
efficient, and a global leader in fighting climate change. Ignorance will no longer cut it in the energy debate. Its time for
us to move on to a better, more progressive approach to energy.
That solves collapse of civilization
John C. Dernbach, Associate Professor, Law, Widener University, Sustainable Development as a
Framework for National Governance, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW v. 49, Fall
1998, p. 16.
The global scale and severity of environmental degradation and poverty are unprecedented in human
history. Major adverse consequences are not inevitable, but they are likely if these problems are not
addressed. Many civilizations collapsed or were severely weakened because they exhausted or
degraded the natural resource base on which they depended. n76 In addition, substantial economic
and social inequalities have caused or contributed to many wars and revolutions. n77 These problems
are intensified by the speed at which they have occurred and are worsening, making it difficult for
natural systems to adapt. The complexity of natural and human systems also means that the effects of
these problems are difficult to anticipate. The potential impact of global warming on the transmission
of tropical diseases in a time of substantial international travel and commerce is but one example.

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Economic growth is key to the environmentcreates demands for goods and services
that are less materially intensive and improved environmental quality
Panayotou, 2003
*Theodore, Economic Growth and the Environment. Economic Survey of Europe, 2003, No. 2. Online,
http://staging.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/ead/pub/032/032_c2.pdf] /WFI-MB
At the other extreme, are those who argue that the fastest road to environmental improvement is
along the path of economic growth: with higher incomes comes increased demand for goods and
services that are less material intensive, as well as demand for improved environmental quality that
leads to the adoption of environmental protection measures. As Beckerman puts it, The strong
correlation between incomes, and the extent to which environmental protection measures are
adopted, demonstrates that in the longer run, the surest way to improve your environment is to
become rich. Some went as far as claiming that environmental regulation, by reducing economic
growth, may actually reduce environmental quality.
Economic growth solves environmental destruction, at higher standards of living
environmental protection increases
Arrow et al, 1995
*Kenneth, K Arrow is in the Department of Economics, Stanford University, Economic Growth and
Carrying Capacity. Science, Vol 268, 4-28-1995, Online,
http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/econ_growth_and_carrying_capacity.pdf] /WFI-MB
The general proposition that economic growth is good for the environment has been justified by the
claim that there exists an empirical relation between per capita income and some measures of
environmental quality. It has been observed that as income goes up there is increasing environmental
degradation up to a point, after which environmental quality improves. (The relation has an "inverted-
U" shape.) One explanation of this finding is that people in poor countries cannot afford to emphasize
amenities over material well-being. Consequently, in the earlier stages of economic development,
increased pollution is regarded as an acceptable side effect of economic growth. However, when a
country has attained a sufficiently high standard of living, people give greater attention to
environmental amenities. This leads to environmental legislation, new institutions for the protection
of the environment, and so forth.

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Growth produces technology that can solve pollution and any environmental
problems it causes
Michael Zey, Montclair University, SEIZING THE FUTURE, 1998, p. 36-37.
Once we discover new capacities, both technological and human, we are set off in novel directions,
crossing boundaries and exploring frontiers we never thought existed. The Spanish explored the New World in
order to extract natural resources such as gold from the Earth and spread Christianity. Many English settlements were established by people
simply trying to escape religious intolerance. None could have guessed that their expression of progress circa 1600 would lead to the birth of an
independent nation that became the crucible for personal liberation and technological innovation. The fact that progress itself leads to
new definitions of human growth also explains the Wests faith in progress. Our accomplishments consistently exceed our
wildest dreams. Regardless of the stated purpose of a technology, the applications usually exceed such
purposes. The automobile became important as a means of redistributing the population from cities to the suburbs; the discovery of the
steam engine revolutionized industry and the very concept of abundance. Third, growth itself contains to their economic woes. hence, he
concludes that in order to ensure the solutions to the problems it produces. Supporting this principle is the World Banks 1992 report
Development and the Environment, which blatantly states that growth is a powerful antidote to a number of ills
plaguing Third World countries, including the pollution that growth supposedly generates. The report thus
contends that eliminating poverty should remain the top goal of world policymakers. Although economic
growth can initially lead to such problems as pollution and waste, the resulting prosperity also
facilitates the developments of technologies that lead to cleaner air and water. In fact, once a nations
per capita income rises to about $4000 in 1993 dollars, it produces less of some pollutants per capita,
mainly due to the fact that it can afford technology like catalytic converters and sewage systems that
treat a variety of wastes. According to Norio Yamamoto, research director of the Mitsubishi Research Institute, We consider
any kind of environmental damage to result from mismanagement of the economy. He claims that the
pollution problems of poorer regions such as eastern europe can be traced to their economic woes. Hence, he concludes
that in order to ensure environmental safety we need a sound economy on a global basis. so the
answer to pollution, the supposed outgrowth of progress, ought to be more economic growth.

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Free market growth key to space explorationprofit incentive boosts innovation and
creativity
Garmong, 2005
*Robert, Ph.D. in philosophy, was a writer for the Ayn Rand Institute from 2003 to 2004, Privatize Space
Exploration. 7-22-2005, Online, http://capitalismmagazine.com/2005/07/privatize-space-exploration]
/Wyo-MB
Nor would it be difficult to spur the private exploration of spaceits been happening, quietly, for
years. The free market works to produce whatever there is demand for, just as it now does with
traditional aircraft. Commercial satellite launches are now routine, and could easily be fully privatized.
The X Prize, which SpaceShipOne won, offered incentives for private groups to break out of the Earths
atmosphere. But all this private exploration is hobbled by the crucial absence of a system of property
rights in space. Imagine the incentive to a profit-minded business if, for instance, it were granted the
right to any stellar body it reached and exploited. We often hear that the most ambitious projects can
only be undertaken by government, but in fact the opposite is true. The more ambitious a project is,
the more it demands to be broken into achievable, profit-making stepsand freed from the
unavoidable politicizing of government-controlled science. If space development is to be transformed
from an expensive national bauble whose central purpose is to assert national pride to a practical
industry, it will only be by unleashing the creative force of free and rational minds. The creative minds
that allowed SpaceShipOne to soar to triumph have made the first private steps toward the stars. Before
them are enormous technical difficulties, the solution of which will require even more heroic
determination than that which tamed the seas and the continents. To solve them, America must
unleash its best minds, as only the free market can do.

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Space solves asteroids strikes
W. H. Siegfried (The Boeing Company, Integrated Defense Systems) 2003
*Space ColonizationBenefits for the World online @
http://www.aiaa.org/Participate/Uploads/ACF628B.pdf, loghry]
Over the last decade a large mass of evidence has been accumulated indicating that near-Earth-object (NEO) impact events
constitute a real hazard to Earth. Congress held hearings on the phenomenon in 1998, and NASA created a small NEO program.
Since 1988, a total (as of 7 August 2002) of some many thousand near-Earth objects (of which about 1,000 are larger that 1 km
in diameter) have been catalogued that are potentially hazardous to Earth. New discoveries are accelerating. In just
the last few months, a 2-mile-wide crater was discovered in Iraq dating from around 2000 to 3000 B.C. This impact was potentially responsible
for the decline of several early civilizations. A similar crater was recently discovered in the North Sea. Major events have occurred
twice in the last hundred years in remote areas where an object exploded near the Earths surface bur did not impact (such as in
Russia). If either of these events had occurred over a populated area the death toll would have been
enormous. Our armed forces are concerned that an asteroid strike could be interpreted as a nuclear attack, thus
triggering retaliation. What higher goals could Space Colonization have than in helping to prevent the
destruction of human life and to ensure the future of civilization? The odds of an object 1 km in diameter impacting
Earth in this century range between 1 in 1,500 and 1 in 5,000 depending on the assumptions made. A 1-km-diameter meteoroid
impact would create a crater 5 miles wide. The death toll would depend on the impact point. A hit at Ground Zero in New
York would kill millions of people and Manhattan Island (and much of the surrounding area) would disappear. The resulting
disruption to the Earths environment would be immeasurable by todays standards. A concerted Space
Colonization impetus could provide platforms for early warning and could, potentially, aid in deflection of threatening objects. NEO detection
and deflection is a goal that furthers international cooperation in space and Space Colonization. Many nations can contribute and the multiple
dimensions of the challenge would allow participation in many waysfrom telescopes for conducting surveys, to studies of lunar and other
planet impacts, to journeys to the comets. The Moon is a natural laboratory for the study of impact events. A lunar colony would facilitate such
study and could provide a base for defensive action. Lunar and Mars cyclers could be a part of Space Colonization that would provide survey
sites and become bases for mining the NEOs as a resource base for space construction. The infrastructure of Space
Colonization would serve a similar purpose to the solar system as did that of the United States Interstate Highway system or the flood
control and land reclamation in the American West did for the United States development. In short, it would allow civilization to
expand into the high frontier.

Those cause extinction
Richard A. Posner (Senior Lecturer @ the University of Chicago Law School and Judge of the US Court
of Appeals, 7th Circuit) 2004
[Catastrophe: Risk & Response, p. 3, loghry]
You wouldnt see the asteroid, even though it was several miles in diameter, because it would be
hurtling toward you at 15 to 25 miles a second. At that speed, the column of air between the asteroid
and the earths surface would be compressed with such force that the col- umns temperature would
soar to several times that of the sun, inciner- ating everything in its path. When the asteroid struck, it
would penetrate deep into the ground and explode, creating an enormous crater and ejecting burning
rocks and dense clouds of soot into the atmosphere, wrapping the globe in a mantle of fiery debris
that would raise surface temperatures by as much as 100 degrees Fahrenheit and shut down
photosynthesis for years. The shock waves from the collision would have precipitated earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions, gargantuan tidal waves, and huge forest fires. A quarter of the earths human
population might be dead within 24 hours of the strike, and the rest soon after.

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Globalization is a driving force of space development
Vedda, 2007
[James, NASA historical contributor, From The Societal Impact of Space Flight By Steven Dick and Roger
Launius, The Role of Space Development In Globalization. Online, http://history.nasa.gov/sp4801-
chapter10.pdf] /WFI-MB
Globalization has been identified as the dominant trend that has replaced the cold war, although its
development overlaps the cold war by at least three decades. for much of that time, U.S. government
space activities had fairly well defined roles that were closely associated with the nations cold war-era
interests. if globalization is the successor to the cold war paradigm, then U.S. space efforts, particularly
those involving exploration and development, must be redefined appropriately. this is not a simple
task, since debates rage as to what globalization means, where it is headed, and whether the net effect
will be good or bad. Although globalization debates primarily address economic, social, and
environmental issues, the continuing influence of space development cannot be ignored or viewed in
isolation from these issues. this chapter highlights the role of space development in the emergence of
the current era of globalization, and briefly discusses how space activities are likely to continue to
influence this evolving process. globalization, in turn, has influenced the course of space
development. the implications for the future may be both positive and negative, including the risk of a
backlash against space development stemming from anti-globalization movements.

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Economic growth fosters government private partnerships that are key to space
development and technology1960s prove
Vedda, 2007
The output of this government partnership with science was the eventual widespread availability of
technologies that could only be dreamed ofor in some cases, were unimaginablein the prior era of
globalization. for example, technologies that allowed more rapid movement of people, goods, and
information in the latter half of the twentieth century included the following: Jet air transport for passengers and
cargo multiplied the speed of long-distance travel, effectively shrinking travel times from days to hours. equally important, it eventually became
affordable to a broad swath of society. Supertankers and container ships have dramatically reduced the cost of transporting cargo across the
oceans, and refrigeration allows perishable products to make their way around the world. near-instantaneous, high-bandwidth
communications have evolved so far beyond the telegraph and radio of our great-grandfathers day that the benefits are beyond our ability to
quantify. By the 1960s,telephones became ubiquitous and continents were connected by undersea cables. the fax machine became popular in
the mid- 1980s,at the same time that so-called microcomputers were maturing. By the 1990s, the expectation was that every desktop would
have its own computer, probably linked to a corporate network and the internet. Space technology in its various forms started
making its contribution to globalization in the 1960s.

Profit motive from capitalism is key to space development and travel
Kalinchenko, 2012
*Dmitry, MA in Information Science and Concentration Economics and Univ. of Michigan, Capitalism as
a driver of space exploration. 3-31-2012, Online,
http://dmitrykalinchenko.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/capitalism-as-a-driver-of-space-exploration/]
/WFI-MB
While moon colonies are a fairly distant goal, I think that more casual space travel could become feasible within next
decade. The force behind this, however, will not be Newts administration controlling the White House (hopefully); instead it will
be the profit motif driving any organization in a capitalist society. Today we already have a number of
firms like SpaceX that are close to developing a ship capable of carrying a person to space. SpaceX was mostly funded
by the ambitious entrepreneur Elon Musk, a founder of PayPal, whose passion for space exploration drove him to invest millions of dollars in
the firm. But, while the ambition started this endeavor, the eventual goal of the firm is to be profitable in the long run.
Once the company is capable of sending a man to space, Musk is planning on selling trips to space to those who can afford it. While the price of
these kinds of trips is likely to be very expensive initially, I bet there are going to be a lot of takers (I know I would buy a trip to space if I was a
multi-millionaire). Even if one trip were to cost $1 million, I can see at least 100 people signing up for it, which would rake in considerable
revenue (I have to admit, though, that I have absolutely no idea how much a space flight would cost to a firm like SpaceX). The profits
from these trips can be invested back into R&D which will make the flights more affordable to the
broader public. So my point is that markets can soon become a better tool for space exploration than
government funding. It is important to understand that governments played a major role in this by doing the fundamental research that firms
like Space X were able to take an advantage of. In the future, though, I can see space exploration can take a similar
evolutionary path as Internet once did where the government provided initial research and development which
allowed the private sector to see the market potential of the invention and develop it further.

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No risk of extinctionEvery disease has trade offs
Gladwell 95 [Malcom, New York Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, The New Republic, July 17, ln]
Then there is the problem of mutation. To become airborne, HIV would have to evolve in such a way as
to become more durable. Right now the virus is highly sensitive to changes in temperature and light. But it is hardly going to do any
damage if it dies the moment it is coughed into the air and exposed to ultraviolet rays. HIV would have to get as tough as a cold virus, which
can live for days on a countertop or a doorknob. At the same time HIV would have to get more flexible. Right now HIV mutates in only a limited
manner. The virus essentially keeps changing its clothes, but its inner workings stay the same. It kills everyone by infecting the same key blood
cells. To become airborne, it would have to undergo a truly fundamental transformation, switching to an
entirely different class of cells. How can HIV make two contradictory changes at the same time, becoming both less and more
flexible? This is what is wrong with the Andromeda Strain argument. Every infectious agent that has
ever plagued humanity has had to adopt a specific strategy, but every strategy carries a
corresponding cost, and this makes human counterattack possible. Malaria is vicious and deadly, but
it relies on mosquitoes to spread from one human to the next, which means that draining swamps
and putting up mosquito netting can all but halt endemic malaria. Smallpox is extraordinarily durable,
remaining infectious in the environment for years, but its very durability, its essential rigidity, is what
makes it one of the easiest microbes to create a vaccine against. aids is almost invariably lethal
because its attacks the body at its point of great vulnerability, that is, the immune system, but the
fact that it targets blood cells is what makes it so relatively uninfectious.

Disease pandemics wont lead to human extinction
Posner 5 *Richard, federal judge Judge 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Catastrophe, 11:3, Proquest+hs
AIDS illustrates the further point that despite the progress made by modern medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, developing a
vaccine or cure for a new (or newly recognized or newly virulent) disease may be difficult, protracted, even impossible. Progress has been made
in treating ATDS, but neither a cure nor a vaccine has yet been developed. And because the virus's mutation rate is high, the treatments may
not work in the long run.7 Rapidly mutating viruses are difficult to vaccinate against, which is why there is no vaccine for the common cold and
why flu vaccines provide only limited protection.8 Paradoxically, a treatment that is neither cure nor vaccine, but merely reduces the severity of
a disease, may accelerate its spread by reducing the benefit from avoiding becoming infected. This is an important consideration with respect
to AIDS, which is spread mainly by voluntary intimate contact with infected people. Yet the fact that Homo sapiens has managed to
survive every disease to assail it in the 200,000 years or so of its existence is a source of genuine comfort, at least if
the focus is on extinction events. There have been enormously destructive plagues, such as the Black Death,
smallpox, and now AIDS, but none has come close to destroying the entire human race. There is a
biological reason. Natural selection favors germs of limited lethality; they are fitter in an evolutionary
sense because their genes are more likely to be spread if the germs do not kill their hosts too quickly.
The AIDS virus is an example of a lethal virus, wholly natural, that by lying dormant yet infectious in its host for years maximizes its spread. Yet
there is no danger that AIDS will destroy the entire human race. The likelihood of a natural pandemic
that would cause the extinction of the human race is probably even less today than in the past (except in
prehistoric times, when people lived in small, scattered bands, which would have limited the spread of disease), despite wider human contacts
that make it more difficult to localize an infectious disease. The reason is improvements in medical science. But the comfort
is a small one. Pandemics can still impose enormous losses and resist prevention and cure: the lesson of the AIDS pandemic. And there is always
a first time.

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Global income gaps declininggrowth better approach to poverty, Latin America
proves
The Economist, 2011
[Staff writer, 1-20-2011, The rich and the rest. Online, http://www.economist.com/node/17959590]
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If these arguments are right, there might be a case for some fairly radical responses, especially a greater
focus on redistribution. In fact, much of the recent hand-wringing about widening inequality is based
on sloppy thinking. The old Davos consensus of boosting growth and combating poverty is still a
better guide to good policy. Rather than a sweeping assault on inequality itself, policymakers would do
better to take on the market distortions that often lie behind the most galling income gaps, and which
also impede economic growth. Begin with the facts about inequality. Globally, the gap between the
rich and the poor has actually been narrowing, as poorer countries are growing faster. Nor is there a
monolithic trend within countries (see article). In Latin America, long home to the worlds most
unequal societies, many countriesincluding the biggest, Brazilhave become a bit more equal, as
governments have boosted the incomes of the poor with fast growth and an overhaul of public
spending to improve the social safety-net (but not by raising tax rates for the rich).

Growth will solve poverty, and check conflict
Gregg Easterbrook, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, The Capitalist Manifesto, Review of The
Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman, THE NEW YORK TIMES, November
27, 2005, p. 16.
Though ''The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth'' may not quite succeed in showing an iron law
of growth and liberalization, Friedman is surely correct when he contends that economic expansion
must remain the world's goal, at least for the next few generations. Growth, he notes, has already
placed mankind on a course toward the elimination of destitution. Despite the popular misconception
of worsening developing-world misery, the fraction of people in poverty is in steady decline. Thirty
years ago 20 percent of the planet lived on $1 or less a day; today, even adjusting for inflation, only 5
percent does, despite a much larger global population. Probably one reason democracy is taking hold is
that living standards are rising, putting men and women in a position to demand liberty. And with
democracy spreading and rising wages giving ever more people a stake in the global economic system,
it could be expected that war would decline. It has. Even taking Iraq into account, a study by the Center
for International Development and Conflict Management, at the University of Maryland, found that the
extent and intensity of combat in the world is only about half what it was 15 years ago.

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Economic growth causes resource depletion that makes resource conflicts likely
Klare and Myers, 2001
[Michael, defense correspondent of The Nation, a contributing editor to Current History, and a member
of the Editorial Board of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. His articles have appeared in Arms Control
Today, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harpers, and International Security Issues in Science and
Technology, as well as other periodicals. Currently he is the Five College Professor as well as Director of
Peace and World Security Studies, which is a joint appointment at Hampshire College, Amherst, Mount
Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts, and Joanne, Director of Merrill House programs on
behalf of the Carnegie Council, Resource wars: the new landscape of global conflict. 3-22-2001,
Online, https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/transcripts/5021.html/:pf_printable] /WFI-MB
I looked for other explanations that would better help me to understand what we were seeing around the world in terms of conflict and the
disposition of military forces. That led me to resources. I have become convinced that the competition for control of resources,
for control of the revenues that certain resources bring, like diamonds or rare timber, has been a decisive factor in many of the
conflicts that we have seen. Im not saying that ethnicity and culture and religion are not an important factor. Often demagogues
and warlords and rising leaders use ethnicity and religion as a tool to arouse public support for whatever their program might be. But if you
look closely, often underneath all of this is a desire to control valuable sources of resources or their revenues. You can see this in conflicts such
as the one now underway in the DR Congo, where, as the UN has recently indicated, some of the foreign and domestic parties have developed
very valuable interests in the exploitation of rare minerals or timber, diamonds and gold, and that this, more than anything else, appears to be
driving the continuing conflict and explains why its so difficult to reach a negotiated peace settlement. Same thing in Angola and Sierra Leone,
where diamonds are a key factor. In conflicts even like that in Chechnya, which is described primarily as an ethnic conflict, Moscow has a strong
interest in controlling the critical pipelines from the Caspian Sea that go right through Grozny. This kind of dynamic operates in many other
conflicts as well. Im sure youre saying to yourself that, There isnt anything new about this. Conflict has always had an
important resource dimension. And this is absolutely true. If you go back to the oldest human written histories that we have, the
texts from the ancient Near East, a lot of what those ancient texts are about is the struggle to control the irrigated river valleys of
Mesopotamia, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and much of the Old Testament in Exodus is about resource conflict in the area
of the Jordan River Valley. Both of those places remain important centers of resource or water conflict today. Also, if you look at the history of
the Western Hemisphere and the history of Africa in recent times, in both cases you see that the pursuit of valuable resources
gold and silver in South America; furs and tobacco and other agricultural products and fish in North America; again, the mineral and timber of
Africa, slaves; and more recently in the Middle East, oilalways has been an important factor in driving outward
expansion, conquest, colonialism, and conflict. So some of what we see today does bear a resemblance to what we have
seen in the past. Yet we are in a qualitatively different situation today. There are forces and dynamics in the world that will
bring these resource issues much more to the fore, to the center of international relations, and they are really qualitative new phenomena. Let
me briefly summarize these key phenomena. 1) Population. In the 20th century, world population grew from about 1.5 billion to 6 billion at the
end of the century, and we expect another 2 billion people to be added between now and the year 2025. There has never in human
history been population growth on this scale. I am not going to argue that population is necessarily the most decisive factor in
all of this, as youll see; nonetheless, this kind of increase in population has to be having a tremendous impact on
the world resource base. We see this especially with respect to water and arable land. Its not that the water
is becoming more scarce, but that the demands on the available supply are growing so rapidly that the existing supply is simply proving
inadequate for many populations, especially in the Middle East, South Asia, Central and Southwest Asia, and North Africa. Ill come back to the
water issue, but this is one where population will have a big impact. The same is true of arable land. 2) Consumption patterns. The 6 billion
people of today, on average, have an enormously higher consumption rate than the 1.5 billion people of the year 1900. Water use,
petroleum use, mineral use, are growing at two or three times the rate of population increase. So its not
just population, but our consumption patterns. There are still as many as a billion people who dont have enough food and other resources to
lead a healthy life, so the whole world is not benefiting from this increase in consumption. But, on average, people have more than they ever
did. We see this most especially in the use of petroleum for private vehicles. A century ago, nobody owned a private motor vehicle. Today there
are about 675 million private motor vehicles in circulation around the world, and the expectation is that number will grow to about 1.1 trillion
in the year 2020. This vast expansion in automobile ownership and use, what the Department of Energy calls the motorization of the world
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consumption patterns are affecting the resource base. The same is true of water. As peoples incomes rise, they eat a diet that requires more
waterfresh vegetables, a lot of meat and chicken and porkand all of this puts pressure on water use. And washing machines, dishwashers
etc. 3) Globalization. Globalization is another aspect of the current scene that has qualitatively changed the
environment. Industrialization is spreading from the few centers of the 20th centuryin Western Europe, the
United States, Japanto vast areas of the world: Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and increasingly other regions such as Southeast Asia.
As industrialization spreads, the demand for all of our needsminerals, wood, petroleum, energy
increases at a very high rate. We expect that the demand for energy in the developing parts of Asia, for example, will more than
double over the next twenty-five years, developing Asia being China and Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and South Korea. The rate for India, Central
America, and Latin America is expected to increase by even higher rates during that period. So globalization, increased
consumption, population growth on an unprecedented scale, are producing an enormous increase in
demand for all of these products. And the fact is that some of them are quite limited. The Earth provided us
with an extraordinary bounty of the resources we need to survive: water, energy, minerals, timber. Its easy to think, as people did in the past,
that there were always new continents to conquer to find more resources. But we are beginning to approach limits to the availability of some
of these materials. The supply of oil is not unlimited, and in all likelihood we will begin to reach the end of the easy
availability of petroleum by the middle of this century. Water is a renewable resource, but each year there is only so much fresh
water. Were now using about half of it. Its very likely that in this current century were likely to see large areas of the world that are fully
utilizing the available supply of fresh water, and in many of those areas there simply wont be enough to meet the need. The resource
base is not unlimited, but we are using it at an unprecedented rate. This is producing a collision
between rising demand and limited supply that has many consequences. These pressures will intensify at an ever-
increasing rate, if these patterns that Im describing continue, with increased pressure on the available supply of
resources. This will lead to increasing competition between the users of resources for access. These pressures will
be mediated in various ways. Market forces will kick in and have a significant impact on resolving some of this competition. In some cases, rising prices for some of these products will lead to
an impetus either for the development of new technologies or for the utilization of resources that are currently too expensive to obtain but are within our reach. For instance, oil in Siberia, in
the Arctic region, or deep offshore in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Gulf of Mexico. These supplies will, under the pressure of demand, come on-line and ease some of the pressure on supply. So
technology/market forces will certainly mediate some of these pressures. In some areas, people will be motivated to cooperate more. In the case of water resources, its absolutely critical that
people in the Nile River Basin or the Jordan Basin, for example, cooperate in sharing whats available, because through cooperation they will each be assured of a more secure supply. We hop
to see more cooperation in the developing of available resources, in new technology, and conservation. But I also fear that some of this competition will lead to
violent conflict in some cases. I see evidence of the securitization of resource issuesthe articulation of the view that
certain resources are vital to national security of the states involved and, therefore, something that
legitimately can be fought over. We see this explicitly in U.S. policy on petroleum supplies. In the Carter Doctrine of January 23, 1980, the President said that the
free flow of petroleum from the Persian Gulf is essential to the national security of the U.S. and to protect that well use any means necessary, including military force. That principle still holds
today. It was cited by President Reagan to justify the re-flagging of Kuwait tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. It was cited by President Bush the elder to justify Operation Desert Storm. It was
cited by President Clinton to undertake a massive increase in American military forces in the Gulf. And we see that in President Bushs recent energy policy, which emphasizes the strategic
importance of Persian Gulf oil to the United States. While the United States has drawn down its military presence in Europe and in other parts of the world, it is rapidly building up its military
presence in the Gulf area, building new bases, pre-positioning forces there, gradually accreting the permanently or semi-permanently deployed forces in the region. So with respect to the Gulf,
the United States has been very explicit. President Clinton spoke in the same terms of the Caspian region in 1999, when the President of Azerbaijan visited the White House. He said that
gaining access to the Caspians oil is a security interest of the United States, and he undertook a number of initiatives leading to greater American military involvement in that region. These
activities, which havent been widely reported in the U.S.building military ties with the military organizations of the new states of the Caspian, training exercises, arms transfers, military
training activitieshave caused deep alarm in Russia, which also views the Caspian as vital to its security, and which has have also been building up its military capabilities in the region, even
as it draws down significantly in other parts of the former Soviet Union. Not only Russia and the United States, but China has expressed the view that resources are vital to its security. We see
this explicitly with the case of the South China Sea, where China has claimed the Spratly and Paracel islands as part of its national territory, because of the resources that are believed to lie
underneath the South China Sea, and has clashed with Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam over control of those islands. We see the same with respect to water, particularly in the Middle
East, where Israel has said about Jordan and Egypt about the Nile River, that gaining access to these supplies is vital to their security, and that if necessary they are prepared to use force to
protect access to those valuable supplies. A different situation applies to some of the internal conflicts around the world, where governments that depend on the revenue from vital resources
that are threatened by separatist groups have used whatever military power they have to suppress those challenges. A brief example is the struggle over the island of Bougainville, which is
claimed by Papua, New Guinea. It hired Executive Outcomes, the private military firm, to undertake an invasion of Bougainville, which has declared its independence from Papua, New Guinea.
Bougainville houses the largest copper mine in the world. It was the sole source of income for the Papua New Guinea government, and so they were prepared to hire a mercenary army to
invade and reconquer the island. My argument is that many governments, and factions within governments, view resources as
something worth fighting over and are building up military capacities in order to carry out these
operations. It is this logic of the securitization of resource issues that worries me most; not scarcity per se, but the
government view that territorial disputes over resources can be solved by force when other means dont
succeed. If these trends continue, the 21st century increasingly will be plagued with conflicts over access
to resources, the protection of resources, or control over particularly valuable sites of resource
revenues such as diamond fields and timber stands. Unless, therefore, the human community could put more emphasis on
other optionstechnology, cooperation, and the use of market forces to try to resolve some of these problemswe will see much
more conflict.
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Economic growth causes political instability and resource competition that causes
conflict and wars
Le Billon, 2001
*Phillippe, School of Geography Mansfield Road Oxford, The political ecology of war: natural resources
and armed conflict. Political Geography, Vol. 20, Issue 5, June 2001, 561-584, Accessed online via
Science Direct] /WFI-MB
Natural resources have played a conspicuous role in the history of armed conflicts. From competition
over wild game to merchant capital and imperialist wars over precious minerals, natural resources
have motivated or financed the violent activities of many different types of belligerents (Westing,
1986).1 With the sharp drop in foreign assistance to many governments and rebel groups resulting from
the end of the Cold War, belligerents have become more dependent upon mobilising private sources
of support to sustain their military and political activities; thereby defining a new political economy of
war ( [Berdal and Keen, 1997] and [Le Billon, 2000a]). Similarly, a fall in terms of international trade in
primary commodities and structural adjustments have led to a readjustment of the strategies of
accumulation of many Southern ruling elites towards shadow state politics controlling informal
economies and privatised companies (Reno, 1998). Although domestic and foreign state budgets
continue to support armed conflict expenditures, other major sources of funding include criminal
proceeds from kidnappings or protection rackets, diversion of relief aid, Diaspora remittances, and
revenues from trading in commodities such as drugs, timber or minerals (Jean & Rufin, 1996).2 Arms
dumping and the support of corrupt regimes during the Cold War, the liberalisation of international
trade, as well as the redeployment of state security personnel and networks into private ventures
have frequently participated in the growth of such parallel networks and the routinisation of criminal
practices within states institutions, most notably in Africa and the former Soviet Union ( [Bayart et al.,
1999] and [Duffield, 1998]). There is growing concern that whereas resources were once a means of
funding and waging armed conflict for states to a political end, armed conflict is increasingly becoming
the means to individual commercial ends: gaining access to valuable resources (Keen, 1998; Berdal &
Malone, 2000). This demise of ideology and politics informs, for example, the assumption of the UN
Security Council that the control and exploitation of natural resources motivates and finances parties
responsible for the continuation of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.3 Beyond increasing
the risk of armed conflict by financing and motivating conflicts, natural resources also increase the
vulnerability of countries to armed conflict by weakening the ability of political institutions to
peacefully resolve conflicts. Contrary to the widely held belief that abundant resources aid economic
growth and are thus positive for political stability, most empirical evidence suggests that countries
economically dependent on the export of primary commodities are at a higher risk of political
instability and armed conflict ( [Collier, 2000] and [Ross, 1999]). This notion of a resource curse also
underpins much of the resource scarcity-war literature (Homer-Dixon, 1999). Indeed, both armed
conflicts and chronic political instability in many oil producing regions, such as in the Gulf of Guinea,
the Middle-East, or the Caspian region, or in scarce cropland regions, such as the African Great Lakes
region point to the possible influence of this resource on both vulnerability to and risk of conflict.

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Growth Bad War
Economic growth fosters competition in states that cause war and genocide
Stewart, 2011
[Frances, University Professor of Development Economics, Working paper for MICROCON: A Micro Level
Analysis of Violent Conflict, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Economic and
Political Causes of Genocidal Violence: A comparison with findings on the causes of civil war. March,
Online, http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/MICROCON_
EconomicandPoliticalCausesofGenocidalViolence.pdf] /WFI-MB
In the manifold classifications of genocide, some include a specific economic objective, and thus
implicitly an economic motive. For example, Dadrian defines utilitarian genocide (one of four types) as
using mass killings in order to obtain control over economic resources; Fein describes developmental
genocide (also one of four types) where the perpetrator destroys peoples who stand in their way in
relation to the exploitation of resources; Smith also refers to utilitarian genocide , which is motivated
by material gain, and includes colonial killings and post-colonial developments devastating aboriginal
groups. Chalk and Jonassohn differentiate motives for genocide, one (of four again) being to acquire
economic wealth. These motives are akin to the rent-seeking motives argued to underly the motives of
many (particularly leaders) in mobilising for civil wars. In line with this, (Valentino 2000)Bae and Ott
(2008) argue that mass killings (not specifically genocide) are motivated by the leaders expectations of
gain. Again, in common with some findings on civil war, some have pointed to economic depression as
predisposing to genocide (Midlarsky 2005)(Valentino 2000). For example, in the German holocaust, the
depression of the 1920s and 1930s was an important factor behind Hitlers popularity, and thus an
indirect cause of the genocide.

Economic growth fosters militarization, resource wars and resentment that cause
conflict
Barret, 2008
[Mark, MA in Environment and Management, Dedevelopment. Masters thesis prepared for Royal
Roads University, Online, http://dspace.royalroads.ca/docs/bitstream/handle/10170/59
/BarrettThesis20081105.pdf?sequence=1] /WFI-MB
Following the end of the cold war many believed the reasons for military conflict would lessen, but militarization has in fact
increased. There is now potential for endless conflict (Putin, 2007). The destruction of the environment
(Schwartz & Randall, 2003) and declining opportunities for development, economic growth, and consumption
are increasingly leading to conflict (Leahy, 2007) (Ziegler, 2005) (Christian Aid, 2001). Conflicts over resources are
fueling wars in many countries (United Nations Development Programme, 2005). Climate change is likely to
threaten international stability and security and global economic development. There are risks of
growing national and international conflicts over the distribution of resources, and of the failure of disaster
management systems (Klare, 2002) (Hiro, 2006). There is the possibility of an increase in the number of weak and
fragile states, and rising migration. As well, the effects of climate change may erode the social order,
causing increased violence and threatening human rights. The legitimacy of the role of industrialized countries as global
governance actors may be called into question (German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU), 2007). Throughout the world, people
are increasingly questioning why they should suffer and do without in order to satisfy the profligate
lifestyles of the elites. Their resistance to social injustice may lead to conflict (Leahy, 2007) (Ramonet, 2002).
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Growth Bad Environment
Capitalist economic growth is driving the destruction of the planetary environment
warming, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, freshwater depletion, species
extinction, and disruption of the nitrous-phosphorous cycle will all cause extinction
Foster, 2011
*John Bellamy, editor of The Monthly Review and author, Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe.
10-31-2011, Online, http://www.zcommunications.org/capitalism-and-environmental-catastrophe-by-
john-bellamy-foster] /WFI-MB
The Occupy Wall Street movement arose in response to the economic crisis of capitalism, and the way in
which the costs of this were imposed on the 99 percent rather than the 1 percent. But "the highest
expression of the capitalist threat," as Naomi Klein has said, is its destruction of the planetary
environment. So it is imperative that we critique that as well.1 I would like to start by pointing to the
seriousness of our current environmental problem and then turn to the question of how this relates to
capitalism. Only then will we be in a position to talk realistically about what we need to do to stave off
or lessen catastrophe. How bad is the environmental crisis? You have all heard about the dangers of
climate change due to the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere -- trapping more heat on earth. You are undoubtedly aware that global warming threatens
the very future of the humanity, along with the existence of innumerable other species. Indeed, James
Hansen, the leading climatologist in this country, has gone so far as to say this may be "our last chance
to save humanity."2 But climate change is only part of the overall environmental problem. Scientists,
led by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, have recently indicated that we have crossed, or are near to
crossing, nine "planetary boundaries" (defined in terms of sustaining the environmental conditions of
the Holocene epoch in which civilization developed over the last 12,000 years): climate change, species
extinction, the disruption of the nitrogen-phosphorus cycles, ocean acidification, ozone depletion,
freshwater usage, land cover change, (less certainly) aerosol loading, and chemical use. Each of these
rifts in planetary boundaries constitutes an actual or potential global ecological catastrophe. Indeed,
in three cases -- climate change, species extinction, and the disruption of the nitrogen cycle -- we have
already crossed planetary boundaries and are currently experiencing catastrophic effects. We are now
in the period of what scientists call the "sixth extinction," the greatest mass extinction in 65 million
years, since the time of the dinosaurs; only this time the mass extinction arises from the actions of one
particular species -- human beings. Our disruption of the nitrogen cycle is a major factor in the growth
of dead zones in coastal waters. Ocean acidification is often called the "evil twin" of climate change,
since it too arises from carbon dioxide emissions, and by negatively impacting the oceans it threatens
planetary disruption on an equal (perhaps even greater) scale. The decreased availability of freshwater
globally is emerging as an environmental crisis of horrendous proportions.3 All of this may seem
completely overwhelming. How are we to cope with all of these global ecological crises/catastrophes,
threatening us at every turn? Here it is important to grasp that all of these rifts in the planetary
system derive from processes associated with our global production system, namely capitalism. If we
are prepared to carry out a radical transformation of our system of production -- to move away from
"business as usual" -- then there is still time to turn things around; though the remaining time in which
to act is rapidly running out.

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Growth causes unsustainable environmental destruction and resource depletion that
causes war
Trainer, 2011
This limits to growth analysis is crucial if one is to understand the nature of the environmental
problem, the Third World problem, resource depletion and armed conflict in the world. Although there
may also be other causal factors at work, all these problems are directly and primarily due to the fact
that there is far too much producing and consuming going on. For instance, we have an environment
problem because far too many resources are being drawn out of nature and far too many wastes
dumped back in, at rates technical advance cannot cut to sustainable levels. We have an impoverished
and underdeveloped Third World because people in rich countries insist on taking most of the
resources, including those in the Third World that should be being used by Third World people to
meet their own needs. And how likely is it that we will ever have peace in the world if resources are
very scarce and all cannot use them at the rate a few do now, yet all insist on getting richer and richer
all the time without limit? If you insist on remaining affluent then you should arm yourselves heavily,
you will need arms if you want to continue to take far more than your fair share.

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Shifting away from growth is the only way to solve environmental problemsgreen
reform movements will inevitably fail
Trainer, 2011
This does not mean we should forget about renewables. They are the sources we should be moving to
full dependence on as soon as possible. But they cant fuel a consumer society for all. They have to be
part of the simpler way sketched below. The failure of the Greens Despite the overwhelming case
against growth, and the argument that there is no possibility of solving the environment problem
unless we shift to a zero-growth economy, green movements and political parties have almost totally
ignored the issue. The original German Green Party saw the need for vast and radical system change
away from consumer capitalist society. However, now almost all green effort goes into merely trying to
reform that society, so that its damage to the environment will be reduced somewhat, and virtually no
green campaigning is directed at moving towards a kind of society that does not inevitably and
increasingly destroy the environment. Almost none of their attention is given to the topic of growth.
(For instance Geoff Mosleys recent book details the continued refusal over many years of the Australian
Conservation Foundation to deal with it. Mosley, 2010.) Similarly Green political parties will not discuss
economic or population growth and instead focus on reforms which never challenge growth and
affluence. Green people are among those who make the strongest claims that technology can solve
the problems eliminating any need to face up to system change...and the politicians are at fault for
not implementing the available solutions. The reason for this failure/refusal is of course that if they
spoke up against the pursuit of growth and affluence in a society that is fiercely obsessed with these
goals, they would quickly lose their subscribers. The wider context The gross unsustainability of
consumer-capitalist society is only the first of two crushing arguments against its acceptability. The
other is to do with the extreme and brutal injustice built into the global economy, and without which we
in rich countries could not have such high material living standards.

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Growth Bad Disease
Globalization and growth spread disease through expanded travel and exposure
Knobler et al, 2006
*Stacey, Adel Mahmoud, Stanley Lemon, and Leslie Pray, Editors of Forum on Microbial Threats, The
Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control: Exploring the Consequences and
Opportunities, Workshop Summary - Forum on Microbial Threats. Produced for the Board on Global
Health, Pg. 21-22, Online, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11588&page=21] /WFI-MB
The increasing cross-border and cross-continental movements of people, commodities, vectors, food,
capital, and decision-making power that characterize globalization, together with global demographic trends, have
enormous potential to affect the emergence and spread of infectious diseases. This chapter summarizes the
workshop presentations and discussions on these various aspects of globalization and their implications for the prevention and control of
emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. The unprecedented volume and speed of human mobility are
perhaps the most conspicuous manifestations of the present era of globalization. From international tourists to
war-displaced refugees, more people are on the move than ever before. They are also traveling faster and are
regularly visiting what used to be very remote parts of the world. This movement has the potential to
change dramatically the factors involved in the transmission of infectious disease. Of particular concern, over the next
15 years, as the global population continues to grow and economic and social disparities between rich and poor countries
intensify, the world will likely continue to witness rapidly growing numbers of migrants in search of
employment or a better quality of life. In fact, many political scientists and demographers already refer to the twenty-first century as the
century of migration (Leaning, 2002). Migrant populations are among the most vulnerable to emerging and
reemerging infectious diseases and have been implicated as a key causal factor in the global spread of
such diseases, most notably multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Workshop presentations and discussions addressing this increased human
mobility and its effect on infectious disease transmission are summarized here; those addressing the need for improved surveillance of mobile populations are
reported in Chapter 2. Just as modern modes of transportation allow more people and products to travel around the world at a faster
pace, they also open the airways to the transcontinental movement of infectious disease vectors. That
mosquitoes can cross the ocean by riding in airplane wheel wells is a commonly cited example of this
phenomenon and is one of several hypotheses proposed to explain the introduction of West Nile virus into New York City in 1999, the
first known incidence of this disease in North America. Beyond such transport of disease vectors, controversial evidence suggests that global warming, much of
which is generated by human activities, has caused or is causing changes in vector distributions worldwide and affecting the incidence rates of various tropical
infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue.
Extinction
Yu 9Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (Victoria, Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of
Our Fate, 22 May 2009, http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-
our-fate)
A pandemic will kill off all humans. In the past, humans have indeed fallen victim to viruses. Perhaps
the best-known case was the bubonic plague that killed up to one third of the European population in
the mid-14th century (7). While vaccines have been developed for the plague and some other infectious
diseases, new viral strains are constantly emerging a process that maintains the possibility of a
pandemic-facilitated human extinction. Some surveyed students mentioned AIDS as a potential pandemic-causing virus. It is true that
scientists have been unable thus far to find a sustainable cure for AIDS, mainly due to HIVs rapid and constant evolution. Specifically, two factors account for the
viruss abnormally high mutation rate: 1. HIVs use of reverse transcriptase, which does not have a proof-reading mechanism, and 2. the lack of an error-correction
mechanism in HIV DNA polymerase (8). Luckily, though, there are certain characteristics of HIV that make it a poor candidate for a large-scale global infection: HIV
can lie dormant in the human body for years without manifesting itself, and AIDS itself does not kill directly, but rather through the weakening of the immune
system. However, for more easily transmitted viruses such as influenza, the evolution of new strains could
prove far more consequential. The simultaneous occurrence of antigenic drift (point mutations that lead to new strains) and antigenic shift (the
inter-species transfer of disease) in the influenza virus could produce a new version of influenza for which scientists may not immediately find a cure. Since influenza
can spread quickly, this lag time could potentially lead to a global influenza pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (9). The most
recent scare of this variety came in 1918 when bird flu managed to kill over 50 million people around the world in what is sometimes referred to as the Spanish flu
pandemic. Perhaps even more frightening is the fact that only 25 mutations were required to convert the original viral strain which could only infect birds into
a human-viable strain (10).
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Growth Bad Disease
Growth causes disease spread through expansion of food-borne illnesses and large-
scale projects
Knobler et al, 2006
[Stacey, Adel Mahmoud, Stanley Lemon, and Leslie Pray, Editors of Forum on Microbial Threats, The
Impact of Globalization on Infectious Disease Emergence and Control: Exploring the Consequences and
Opportunities, Workshop Summary - Forum on Microbial Threats. Produced for the Board on Global
Health, Pg. 21-22, Online, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11588&page=21] /WFI-MB
Consumers in much of the developed world expect constant access to a wide variety of high-quality,
safe food products, regardless of the season or the products geographic origin. This demand for a
global food market and the resulting transnational movement of food have important implications for
foodborne infectious diseases. The global transport of food also raises concerns about the risk of the
emergence of antibiotic resistance in humans. Food-producing animals are often given antibiotic
drugs for important therapeutic, disease prevention, or production reasons; however, these drugs can
cause microbes to become resistant to drugs used to treat human illness. Although the movement of
people and products may be the most conspicuous manifestation of the present era of globalization,
the phenomenons main driving force is the global expansion of capitalism and the free-market
system. Thus, it is useful to examine how the global flow of capital affects emerging and reemerging
infectious diseases. The most direct effect results from the financing of environmental projects, such
as dams and other water or land development efforts, that alter local vector ecologies and increase
the potential for human exposure to infectious diseases. The movement of capital is often
accompanied by movements or shifts in decision-making power, another manifestation of globalization
with implications for infectious disease transmission.

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Growth Bad Disease
Growth causes disease spread and mutationSARS proves
Hamburg 8FDA Commissioner. Senior Scientist Nuclear Threat Initiative. MD (Margaret, Germs Go
Global: Why Emerging Infectious Diseases Are a Threat to America,
http://healthyamericans.org/assets/files/GermsGoGlobal.pdf)
Globalization, the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration, has impacted public
health significantly. Technology and economic interdependence allow diseases to spread globally at
rapid speeds. Experts believe that the increase in international travel and commerce, including the
increasingly global nature of food handling, processing, and sales contribute to the spread of emerging
infectious diseases. 47 Increased global trade has also brought more and more people into contact with
zoonosis -diseases that originated in animals before jumping to humans. For example, in 2003, the monkey pox
virus entered the U.S. through imported Gambian giant rats sold in the nations under-regulated exotic pet trade. The rats infected pet prairie
dogs, which passed the virus along to humans. 48 International smuggling of birds, brought into the U.S. without undergoing inspection and/or
quarantine, is of particular concern to public health experts who worry that it may be a pathway for the H5N1 bird flu virus to enter the
country. Lower cost and efficient means of international transportation allow people to travel to more
remote places and potential exposure to more infectious diseases. And the close proximity of
passengers on passenger planes, trains, and cruise ships over the course of many hours puts people at risk for
higher levels of exposure. If a person contracts a disease abroad, their symptoms may not emerge until they return home, having
exposed others to the infection during their travels. In addition, planes and ships can themselves become breeding
grounds for infectious diseases. The 2002-2003 SARS outbreak spread quickly around the globe due to international travel. SARS is
caused by a new strain of corona virus, the same family of viruses that frequently cause the common cold. This contagious and sometimes fatal
respiratory illness first appeared in China in November 2002. Within 6 weeks, SARS had spread worldwide, transmitted around the globe by
unsuspecting travelers. According to CDC, 8,098 people were infected and 774 died of the disease. 49 SARS represented the first severe,
newly emergent infectious disease of the 21st century. 50 It illustrated just how quickly infection can spread in a highly
mobile and interconnected world. SARS was contained and controlled because public health authorities in the communities most
affected mounted a rapid and effective response. SARS also demonstrated the economic consequences of an emerging infectious disease in
closely interdependent and highly mobile world. Apart from the direct costs of intensive medical care and disease control interventions, SARS
caused widespread social disruption and economic losses. Schools, hospitals, and some borders were closed and thousands of people were
placed in quarantine. International travel to affected areas fell sharply by 50 - 70 percent. Hotel occupancy dropped by more than 60 percent.
Businesses, particularly in tourism-related areas, failed. According to a study by Morgan Stanley, the Asia-Pacific regions economy lost nearly
$40 billion due to SARS. 51 The World Bank found that the East Asian regions GDP fell by 2 percent in the second quarter of 2003. 52 Toronto
experienced a 13.4 percent drop in tourism in 2003. 53

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Growth Bad Poverty 1/2
Capitalism generates povertyprofit motive for elites, outsourcing, lay-offs, and high-
priced goods
Wolff, 2011
[Richard, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught
economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in
International Affairs of the New School University, New York City, Capitalism and Poverty. 10-11-2011,
Online, http://rdwolff.com/content/capitalism-and-poverty] /WFI-MB
Deepening poverty has multiple causes, but the capitalist economic system is major among them. First,
capitalism's periodic crises always increase poverty, and the current crisis is no exception. More precisely, how
capitalist corporations operate, in or out of crisis, regularly reproduces poverty. At the top of every
corporation, its major shareholders (15-20 or fewer) own controlling blocs of shares. They select a board of directors -- usually 15-20
individuals -- who run the corporation. These two tiny groups make all the key decisions: what, how, and where to produce and
what to do with the profits. Poverty is one result of this capitalist type of enterprise organization. For example,
corporate decisions generally aim to lower the number of workers or their wages or both. They
automate, export (outsource) jobs, and replace higher-paid workers by recruiting domestic and
foreign substitutes willing to work for less. These normal corporate actions generate rising poverty as
the other side of rising profits. When poverty and its miseries "remain always with us," workers tend
to accept what employers dish out to avoid losing jobs and falling into poverty. Another major
corporate goal is to control politics. Wherever all citizens can vote, workers' interests might prevail over those of
directors and shareholders in elections. To prevent that, corporations devote portions of their revenues to
finance politicians, parties, mass media, and "think tanks." Their goal is to "shape public opinion" and control what
government does. They do not want Washington's crisis-driven budget deficits and national debts to be overcome by big tax increases
on corporations and the rich. Instead public discussion and politicians' actions are kept focused chiefly on cutting social programs for the
majority. Corporate goals include providing high and rising salaries, stock options, and bonuses to top
executives and rising dividends and share prices to shareholders. The less paid to the workers who
actually produce what corporations sell, the more corporate revenue goes to satisfy directors, top
managers, and major shareholders. Corporations also raise profits regularly by increasing prices and/or cutting production costs
(often by compromising output quality). Higher priced and poorer-quality goods are sold mostly to working
people. This too pushes them toward poverty just like lower wages and benefits and government
service cuts. Over the years, government interventions like Social Security, Medicare, minimum wage laws, regulations, etc.
never sufficed to eradicate poverty. They often helped the poor, but they never ended poverty. The same applies to
charities aiding the poor. Poverty always remained. Now capitalism's crisis worsens it again. Something more
than government interventions or charity is required to end poverty.

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Growth Bad Poverty 2/2
Poverty produces structural violence that is the equivalent of an ongoing nuclear war
Gilligan 2000
[James, Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Violence: Reflections on our deadliest
epidemic, p 195-196]
The 14 to 18 million deaths a year cause by structural violence compare with about 100,000 deaths
per year from armed conflict. Comparing this frequency of deaths from structural violence to the
frequency of those caused by major military and political violence, such as World War II (an estimated 49 million military and civilian deaths,
including those caused by genocide--or about eight million per year, 1935-1945), the Indonesian massacre of 1965-1966 (perhaps 575,000
deaths), the Vietnam war (possibly two million, 1954- 1973), and even a hypothetical nuclear exchange between the U.S. and
the U.S.S.R (232 million), it was clear that even war cannot begin to compare with structural violence, which
continues year after year. In other word, every fifteen years, on the average, as many people die because of
relative poverty as would be killed in a nuclear war that caused 232 million deaths; and every single
year, two to three times as many people die from poverty throughout the world as were killed by the
Nazi genocide of the Jews over a six-year period. This is, in effect, the equivalent of an ongoing, unending, in fact
accelerating, thermonuclear war, or genocide, perpetrated on the weak and poor every year of every
decade, throughout the world.

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Growth Bad Poverty

Globalization and growth foster economic inequality and economic divides that breed
poverty, conflict and extremism
Vedda, 2007
This globalized economy will be a net contributor to increased political stability in the world in 2015,
although its reach and benefits will not be universal. in contrast to the industrial revolution, the process
of globalization is more compressed. its evolution will be rocky, marked by chronic financial volatility
and a widening economic divide . . . regions, countries, and groups feeling left behind will face
deepening economic stagnation, political instability, and cultural alienation. they will foster political,
ethnic, ideological, and religious extremism, along with the violence that often accompanies it. they will
force the United States and other developed countries to remain focused on old-world challenges
while concentrating on the implications of new-world technologies at the same time. 19 as noted
earlier, supporters of globalization believe it will allow more and more individuals, as consumers and
producers, to enjoy the benefits of economic liberalization, competition ,and innovation.it is natural to
want to see oneself as part of the solution rather than part of the problem, so the space community
undoubtedly would like to view itself as an essential tool of globalization for redressing deficiencies and
providing solutions for global problems. But general acceptance of this view is not automatic. in fact,
there is a risk that the opposite may occur. globalization has a dark side, and there is no shortage of
critics around the world who are eager to point this out. among the negative aspects of globalization
that have been cited are: exposure of workers and firms to unwelcome competition from abroad,
and increased risk that companies will relocate their production elsewhere. competition between
locations for mobile capital that may lead to a race to the bottom in environmental standards.
diffidence to the outside world or fear that a cherished way of life will disappear as a result of cultural
standardization. potential worsening of inequality and injustice and erosion of democratic
governance.

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Growth Bad Poverty
Free market capitalist growth generates massive povertyempirics prove
Weller, 2002
*Christian, Macroeconomist at the Economic Policy Institute, Free Markets and Poverty. The American
Prospect, 1-4-2002, Online, http://prospect.org/article/free-markets-and-poverty] /WFI-MB
Yet the actual experience since 1980 contradicts almost every one of these claims. Indeed, the free-trade/free-capital formula
has led to slower growth and more vulnerability for poor countries--and to greater income disparity
among individuals. In 1980 median income in the richest 10 percent of countries was 77 times greater than
in the poorest 10 percent; by 1999 that gap had grown to 122 times. Progress in poverty reduction has
been limited and geographically isolated. The number of poor people rose from 1987 to 1998; in many countries, the share of poor people
increased (in 1998 close to half the population in many parts of the world were considered poor). In 1980 the world's poorest 10 percent, or
400 million people, lived on the equivalent of 72 cents a day or less. The same number of people had 79 cents per day in 1990 and 78 cents in
1999. The income of the world's poorest did not even keep up with inflation. Why has the laissez-faire
approach worsened both world growth and world income distribution? First, the IMF and the World Bank often
commend austerity as an economic cure-all in order to reassure foreign investors of a sound fiscal and business climate--but austerity, not
surprisingly, leads to slow growth. Second, slow growth itself can mean widening income inequality, since
high growth and tight labor markets are what increase the bargaining power of the poor. (Economists estimate that poverty increases by 2
percent for every 1 percent of decline in growth.) Third, the hands-off approach to global development encourages
foreign capital to seek regions and countries that offer the cheapest production costs--so even low-
income countries must worry that some other, even more desperate workforce will do the same work
for a lower wage. Finally, small and newly opened economies in the global free market are vulnerable
to investment fads and speculative pressures from foreign investors--factors that result in instability
and often overwhelm the putative benefits of greater openness. All of these upheavals
disproportionately harm the poorest.

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Growth Bad AT Decline Causes War
Economic downturns dont cause wars.
Miller, 2K (Faculty of Administration, University of Ottawa, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 25,
No. 4, pg. 277)
The question may be formulated. Do wars spring from popular reaction to a sudden economic crisis that exacerbates
poverty and growing disparities in wealth and incomes? Perhaps one could argue, as some scholars do, that it is some dramatic event or
sequence of such events leading to the exacerbation of poverty that, in turn, leads to this deplorable denouement. This exogenous factor might
act as a catalyst for a violent reaction on the part of the people or on the part of the political leadership who would then possibly be tempted to
seek a diversion by finding or, if need be, fabricating an enemy and setting in train the process leading to war. According to a study
undertaken by Minxin Pei and Ariel Adesnik of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, there would not
appear to be any merit in this hypothesis. After studying ninety-three episodes of economic crisis in
twenty-two countries in Latin America and Asia in the years since the Second World War they concluded that:
Much of the conventional wisdom about the political impact of economic crises may be wrong The
severity of economic crisis- as measured in terms of inflation and negative growth bore no relationship to the
collapse of regimes (or, in democratic states, rarely) to an outbreak of violence.. In the cases of dictatorships and semi-
democracies, the ruling elites responded to crisis by increasing repression (thereby using one form of violence to abort another).

Economic decline doesnt cause war
Ferguson 2006 [Niall, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow
at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. The next war of the world, Foreign Affairs. V 85. No 5.]
Nor can economic crises explain the bloodshed. What may be the most familiar causal chain in
modern historiography links the great depression to the rise of fascism and the outbreak of World War
II. But the simple story leaves too much out. Nazi Germany started the war In Europe only after its
economy had recovered. Not all the countries affected by the Great Depression were taken over by
fascist regimes, nor did all such regimes start wars of aggression. In fact, no general relationship
between economics and conflict is discernible for the century as a whole. Some wars came after
periods of growth, others were the cause rather than the consequences of economic catastrophe, and
some sever economic crises were not followed by war.

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Growth Bad AT Space/Asteroids
No impactchance of asteroid strike is zero
Alasdair Wilkins (io9 staff) 1/3/2011
*Why a massive meteorite strike could be the best thing to happen to us online @
http://io9.com/5723654/why-a-massive-meteorite-strike-could-be-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-us,
loghry]
Meteorites killed the dinosaurs and have nearly wiped out humanity in multiple Hollywood blockbusters, but have these deadly space
rocks actually gotten a bad rap? One geologist argues we should actually be thankful for all meteorites have done for us. Ted Nield, the
author of the new book Incoming!: or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Meteorite, explains in an interview with the British
newspaper The Guardian why meteorites have been benefited Earth throughout its long history. He points out that, while meteorites
can cause an extinction event every few hundred million years, the odds of being killed by a meteorite
are beyond remote - in all of human history, the only claimed meteorite fatality was a dog in Egypt in
1911, and he says that was almost certainly just a story. And, on any sort of timescale we should be worried about,
Earth's chances of being hit by a meteorite are next to zero.
No Extinctionpopulation distribution and tech solve
Alasdair Wilkins (io9 staff) 1/3/2011
*Why a massive meteorite strike could be the best thing to happen to us online @
http://io9.com/5723654/why-a-massive-meteorite-strike-could-be-the-best-thing-to-happen-to-us,
loghry]
That said, Nield doesn't downplay the destructive capabilities of these meteorites. When asked to imagine a 10-kilometer-wide
asteroid headed towards Earth, he paints a grim picture: It would be travelling at 30-40km per second when it hit the top of the
atmosphere and would immediately start to vaporise. It would be like turning an oven to broil except it would happen to the entire planet. You
would be talking about rendering large areas, possibly a hemisphere, uninhabitable. Within the blast zone, nothing would survive, because
when these things hit, they produce plasma and incredible temperatures. He says humanity is widely distributed enough that
some scattered population pockets might survive the explosion, although they'd then be looking at tens of thousands
of years spent scraping by on a charred planet. There are, however, solutions, although he does dismiss the survival plan put forward by
the acclaimed physicists Michael Bay and Bruce Willis: It is possible to envisage dealing with an incoming meteorite if
we saw it far in advance. We could try to deflect it using spacecraft. Hollywood pictures suggest we could use a big
bomb, though this would probably be very silly. We would break the meteorite into parts and would then have several lethal objects, instead of
just one, heading our way. However, you could attach little ion engines to the meteorite to divert it over several
orbits around the sun. It would only take a very slight deviation. So, no, meteorites don't mean the
end of humanity.
No risk of extinction from asteroids
Robin McKie & (Guardian staff) Ted Nield (Geologist & Author) 1/2/2011
*Ted Nield: We won't go the way of the dinosaurs online @
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/02/my-bright-idea-ted-nield, loghry]
So is it really time to love a meteorite? Why not? No one has ever been killed by one. Indeed, the only claimed fatality is that
of a dog, from the village of Nakhla in Egypt, supposedly vaporised by a meteorite on 28 June 1911 . In fact, this story is almost certainly made
up. No humans killed and one disputed dead dog. It's not much of a death list. Not really. Also, we have been monitoring near-
Earth asteroids for many years and haven't found one yet that stands the remotest chance of hitting
us in the near future. Your risk of being killed by one is about the same as dying by a firework. As for
our chances of being hit by something like the one that helped kill the dinosaurs, those are pretty
much nil in the foreseeable future.

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Growth Bad AT Terrorism

No risk of nuclear terror technical and logistical hurdles like access to materials are
impossible to overcome
Mueller 1/1/2008 [John Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center Professor of
Political Science Department of Political Science, Ohio State University. THE ATOMIC TERRORIST:
ASSESSING THE LIKELIHOOD Prepared for presentation at the Program on International Security Policy,
University of Chicago, January 15, 2008 ]
It is essential to note, however, that making a bomb is an extraordinarily difficult task. Thus, a set of counterterrorism and
nuclear experts interviewed in 2004 by Dafna Linzer for the Washington Post pointed to the "enormous technical and logistical
obstacles confronting would-be nuclear terrorists, and to the fact that neither al-Qaeda nor any other
group has come close to demonstrating the means to overcome them." Allison nonetheless opines that a
dedicated terrorist group, al-Qaeda in particular, could get around all the problems in time and eventually steal, produce, or procure a "crude"
bomb or device, one that he however acknowledges would be "large, cumbersome, unsafe, unreliable, unpredictable, and inefficient" (2004,
97; see also Bunn and Wier 2006, 139; Pluta and Zimmerman 2006, 61). In his recent book, Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor,
William Langewiesche spends a great deal of time and effort assessing the process by means of which a terrorist group could come up with a
bomb. Unlike Allison, he concludes that it "remains very, very unlikely. It's a possibility, but unlikely." Also: The best
information is that no one has gotten anywhere near this. I mean, if you look carefully and practically at this process,
you see that it is an enormous undertaking full of risks for the would-be terrorists. And so far there is no public case, at least
known, of any appreciable amount of weapons-grade HEU [highly enriched uranium] disappearing.
And that's the first step. If you don't have that, you don't have anything.
Terror threat overblownmore likely to be killed by comet
John Mueller, Is There Still a Terrorist Threat? FOREIGN AFFAIRS v. 85 n. 5, September/October
2005, p. 2+.
But while keeping such potential dangers in mind, it is worth remembering that the total number of
people killed since 9/11 by al Qaeda or al Qaeda-like operatives outside of Afghanistan and Iraq is not
much higher than the number who drown in bathtubs in the United States in a single year, and that
the lifetime chance of an American being killed by international terrorism is about one in 80,000 --
about the same chance of being killed by a comet or a meteor. Even if there were a 9/11-scale attack
every three months for the next five years, the likelihood that an individual American would number
among the dead would be two hundredths of a percent (or one in 5,000).
Although it remains heretical to say so, the evidence so far suggests that fears of the omnipotent
terrorist -- reminiscent of those inspired by images of the 20-foot-tall Japanese after Pearl Harbor or the
20-foot-tall Communists at various points in the Cold War (particularly after Sputnik) -- may have been
overblown, the threat presented within the United States by al Qaeda greatly exaggerated. The
massive and expensive homeland security apparatus erected since 9/11 may be persecuting some,
spying on many, inconveniencing most, and taxing all to defend the United States against an enemy that
scarcely exists.

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Misc
UMKC SDI 12 60
Transition Solves
Quick collapse is better means we are able to survive the transitionthe sooner the
better
LEWIS 2002
(Chris H., Instructor, Sewall Program @ CU Boulder, On the Edge of Society, "Global Industrial
Civilization: The Necessary Collapse," ed. M Dobkowski & I Wllimann, Syracuse U. Press, P.____)
In conclusion, the only solution to the growing political and economic chaos caused by the collapse of
global industrial civilization is to encourage the uncoupling of nations and regions from the global
industrial economy. Unfortunately, millions will die in the wars and economic and political conflicts
created by the accelerating collapse of global industrial civilization. But we can be assured that on that basis of
past history of the collapse of regional civilizations such as the Mayan and the Roman Empires, barring global nuclear war, human
societies and civilizations will continue to exist and develop a smaller, regional scale. Yes, such
civilizations will be violent, corrupt, and often cruel, but, in the end, less so than our current global industrial
civilization, which is abusing the entire planet and threatening the mass death and suffering of all its
peoples and the living biological fabric of life on earth. The paradox of global economic development is that although it
creates massive wealth and power for First World Elites, it also creates massive poverty and suffering for Third World people and societies.
The failure of global development to end this suffering and destruction will bring about us collapse. This
collapse will cause millions of people to suffer and die throughout the world, but it should paradoxically, ensure the survival of
future human societies. Indeed, the collapse of global industrial civilization is necessary for the future
long-term survival of human beings. Although this future seems hopeless and heartless, it is not. We can learn alot from our
present global crisis. What we learn will shape our future and the future of the complex, interconnected web of life on Earth.

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Transition Solves
Transition solves the negative impacts of growthradical change is key
Trainer, 2011
[Ted, University of New South Wales Australia, The radical implications of the zero growth economy.
The argument in this paper is that the implications of a steady-state economy have not been understood at all well, especially by its advocates.
Most proceed as if we can and should eliminate the growth element of the present economy while leaving the rest more or less as it is. It will
be argued firstly that this is not possible, because this is not an economy which has growth; it is a growth-economy, a
system in which most of the core structures and processes involve growth. If growth is eliminated then radically different
ways of carrying out many fundamental processes will have to be found. Secondly, the critics of growth typically
proceed as if it is the only or the primary or the sufficient thing that has to be fixed, but it will be argued that the major global
problems facing us cannot be solved unless several fundamental systems and structures within
consumer-capitalist society are radically remade. What is required is much greater social change than
Western society has undergone in several hundred years. Before offering support for these claims it is important to
sketch the general limits to growth situation confronting us. The magnitude and seriousness of the global resource
and environmental problem is not generally appreciated. Only when this is grasped is it possible to
understand that the social changes required must be huge, radical and far reaching. The initial claim being
argued here (and detailed in Trainer 2010b) is that consumer-capitalist society cannot be reformed or fixed; it has to
be largely scrapped and remade along quite different lines.
Its try or dieonly a complete abandonment of growth will ensure we can survive the
transition to small scale economies
Trainer, 2011
If we must abandon growth and greatly reduce production and consumption then there is no alternative
but to develop an economy which is basically under social control, i.e., in which we discuss, decide, plan and organise to
produce that stable quantity of the basic things we need to enable a high quality of life for all. In the
coming conditions of intense resource scarcity, viable communities will have to be mostly small, self-
sufficient local economies using local resources to produce what local people need. Such economies can only work well if control is in
the hands of all citizens, via participatory-democracy exercised through whole town assemblies. This vision would enable most of the firms and
farms to be privately owned or community cooperatives, and would involve little role for councils, state or federal governments. Although the
case against the wisdom of pursuing growth and affluence has in my opinion been overwhelmingly convincing
for decades, it has been almost totally ignored. Although it is now gaining more attention, on the fringes of the economics
profession, unfortunately there is little recognition of just how profoundly radical the notion of zero-growth is. It logically entails
the termination of several fundamental structures and processes, values and taken for granted ideas,
which have developed over hundreds of years. If the limits analysis is valid we have only decades to
make the enormous transitions. Given that the mainstream, resolutely led by the economics profession, shows no
sign of ever attending to these issues, it is difficult to maintain belief that we have the wit or the will
to save ourselves.

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Transition Solves
Only a transition away from growth can solve environmental and social destruction
Foster, 2011
[John Bellamy, editor of The Monthly Review and author, Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe.
10-31-2011, Online, http://www.zcommunications.org/capitalism-and-environmental-catastrophe-by-
john-bellamy-foster] /WFI-MB
The other approach is to demand changes in society itself; to move away from a system directed at profits, production,
and accumulation, i.e., economic growth, and toward a sustainable steady-state economy. This would mean reducing or
eliminating unnecessary and wasteful consumption and reordering society -- from commodity production and
consumption as its primary goal, to sustainable human development. This could only occur in conjunction with a move towards substantive
equality. It would require democratic ecological and social planning. It therefore coincides with the classical objectives of
socialism. Such a shift would make possible the reduction in carbon emissions we need. After all, most of
what the U.S. economy produces in the form of commodities (including the unnecessary, market-related costs that go
into the production of nearly all goods) is sheer waste from a social, an ecological -- even a long-term economic -- standpoint. Just think of
all the useless things we produce and that we are encouraged to buy and then throw away almost the moment we have bought
them. Think of the bizarre, plastic packaging that all too often dwarfs the goods themselves. Think of military spending, running
in reality at $1 trillion a year in the United States. Think of marketing (i.e. corporate spending aimed at persuading people to buy things
they don't want or need), which has reached $1 trillion a year in this country alone. Think of all the wasted resources associated
with our financial system, with Wall Street economics. It is this kind of waste that generates the huge profits for the top 1 percent of
income earners, and that alienates and impoverishes the lives of the bottom 99 percent, while degrading the environment.8 What
we need therefore is to change our economic culture. We need an ecological and social revolution. We
have all the technologies necessary to do this. It is not primarily a technological problem, because the goal here would no longer be the
impossible one of expanding our exploitation of the earth beyond all physical and biological limits, ad infinitum. Rather the goal would
be to promote human community and community with the earth. Here we would need to depend on organizing our
local communities but also on creating a global community -- where the rich countries no longer imperialistically exploit the poor countries of
the world. You may say that this is impossible, but the World Occupy Movement would have been
declared impossible only a month ago. If we are going to struggle, let us make our goal one of
ecological and social revolution -- in defense of humanity and the planet.

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Transition Fails
Transition will inevitably failthere are no alternatives to capitalism to fill in
Rogoff, 2012
*Kenneth, Professor of Economic and Public Policy at Harvard University, Is modern capitalism
sustainable? The International Economic, 26.1, 60-61, Accessed online via Proquest] /WFI-MB
In the broad sweep of history, all forms of capitalism are ultimately transitional. I am often asked if the
recent global financial crisis marks the beginning of the end of modem capitalism. It is a curious
question, because it seems to presume that there is a viable replacement waiting in the wings. The
truth of the matter is that, for now at least, the only serious alternatives to today's dominant Anglo-
American paradigm are other forms of capitalism. Continental European capitalism, which combines
generous health and social benefits with reasonable working hours, long vacation periods, early
retirement, and relatively equal income distributions, would seem to have everything to recommend it -
except sustainability. China's Darwinian capitalism, with its fierce competition among export firms, a
weak social-safety net, and widespread government intervention, is widely touted as the inevitable heir
to Western capitalism, if only because of China's huge size and consistent outsize growth rate. Yet
China's economic system is continually evolving. Indeed, it is far from clear how far China's political,
economic, and financial structures will continue to transform themselves, and whether China will
eventually morph into capitalism's new exemplar. In any case, China is still encumbered by the usual
social, economic, and financial vulnerabilities of a rapidly growing lower-income country. Perhaps the
real point is that, in the broad sweep of history, all current forms of capitalism are ultimately
transitional. Modern-day capitalism has had an extraordinary run since the start of the Industrial
Revolution two centuries ago, lifting billions of ordinary people out of abject poverty. Marxism and
heavyhanded socialism have disastrous records by comparison. But, as industrialization and
technological progress spread to Asia (and now to Africa), someday the struggle for subsistence will no
longer be a primary imperative, and contemporary capitalism's numerous flaws may loom larger.

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Collapse failscauses right wing fascist states that are worse
Martin Lewis, Professor, School of the Environment, Duke University, GREEN DELUSIONS, 1992, p.
170-171.
While an explosive socioeconomic crisis in the near term is hardly likely the possibility certainly cannot
be dismissed. Capitalism is an inherently unstable economic system, and periodic crises of some
magintude are inevitable. An outbreak of jingoistic economic nationalism throughout the world,
moreover, could quickly result in virtual economic collapse. Under such circumstances we could indeed
enter an epoch of revolutionary social turmoil. Yet I believe that there are good reasons to believe that
the victors in such a struggle would be radicals not of the left but rather of the right. The extreme left,
for all its intellectual strength, notably lacks the kind of power necessary to emerge victorious from a
real revolution. A few old street radicals may still retain their militant ethos, but todays college
professors and their graduate students, the core marxist contingent, would be ineffective. The radical
right, on the other hand, would present a very real threat. Populist right-wing paramilitary groups are
well armed and well trained, while establishment-minded fascists probably have links with the
American military, wherein lies the greatest concentration of destructive power this planet knows.
Should a crisis strike so savagely as to splinter the American center and its political institutions, we
could well experience a revolutionary movement similar to that of Germany in the 1930.

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Rejection of capitalism causes massive transition wars
Harris 3 (Lee, Analyst Hoover Institution and Author of The Suicide of Reason, The Intellectual
Origins of America-Bashing, Policy Review, January,
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3458371.html)
This is the immiserization thesis of Marx. And it is central to revolutionary Marxism, since if capitalism
produces no widespread misery, then it also produces no fatal internal contradiction: If everyone is
getting better off through capitalism, who will dream of struggling to overthrow it? Only genuine misery
on the part of the workers would be sufficient to overturn the whole apparatus of the capitalist state,
simply because, as Marx insisted, the capitalist class could not be realistically expected to relinquish
control of the state apparatus and, with it, the monopoly of force. In this, Marx was absolutely correct.
No capitalist society has ever willingly liquidated itself, and it is utopian to think that any ever will.
Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of socialism, nothing short of a complete revolution would do;
and this means, in point of fact, a full-fledged civil war not just within one society, but across the globe.
Without this catastrophic upheaval, capitalism would remain completely in control of the social order
and all socialist schemes would be reduced to pipe dreams.
Extinction
Kothari 82 (Rajni, Professor of Political Science University of Delhi, Toward a Just Social Order, p.
571)
Attempts at global economic reform could also lead to a world racked by increasing turbulence, a
greater sense of insecurity among the major centres of power -- and hence to a further tightening of
the structures of domination and domestic repression producing in their wake an intensification of
the old arms race and militarization of regimes, encouraging regional conflagrations and setting the
stage for eventual global holocaust.

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