2AR

Some quick things for the judges to note:

1. Ignore the CP: First off, the CP: I’m not going to address it. He kicked it. That’s
totally valid. Therefore, all debate on this issue is irrelevant and needs to be wiped
from the flow. If he kicked it, I’m not sure why he decided to go on and argue it.
2. On-case was dropped
3. T was dropped

The only things left on your flow are the O-Spec and the K. So you know what? That’s
what I’m gonna talk about.
O-SPEC
I’m gonna boil this down to two basic things here:
1. The O-spec represents a credibility loss for the neg. Just because they dropped
the CP doesn’t mean the credulity loss didn’t happen. I lost the same amount of
ground they did through their funding specification.
2. I’ll concede the O-spec. Let’s look at what happens if we lose our funding.
Shipsey made the point in his first speech that the o-spec means we lose access to
our funding. Okay, fine. Guess what happens? The plan will go forward without
money. It will still issue the mandate that coal companies upgrade, it merely
won’t pay for it. It will still put the controls on ash. He asked if the plan can
happen without money, my answer was that we would be unable to pay for it.
Fine. Vote the plan through without the funding. The only real consequence is a
slight hit to the coal industry, but as clarified in the 1ac, the technology is cheap.

Bottom Line: Even if he wins the O-Spec, the only thing that
happens is a small hit to the coal companies. The plan will
happen, it just won’t be as totally awesome. We still win,
because he dropped the CP and the on-case.
The Kritik:
Let’s look back at the place where He linked Me to the K, and the place
where I am linking him:

CX of the 1AC:
Patrick: So, your criterion was public health. Does that mean that public health would
take precedence over environmental protection, were they in conflict?
Me: Yes. If public health and environmental protection are in conflict, health wins.

CX of the 1NC:
Me: You find a dying newt and a dying person. You have one drop of magic healing
potion. Who do you save?
Patrick: Well, if I could, I would save both. If I had to choose one, personally, I would
save the person. You’re the one who forced the choice.

Guess what: They are the same! In both situations we have conflict: Human or
animal. Pick one. Both of us picked the human, as anyone should do. I will totally admit
that I value humans over animals. Why? Because so does the neg. My admission in CX is
the same as his. He tries to get out of this by saying: “Well, maybe next time I’d pick the
animal.” That has no merit as a response. I could say the same thing. The point is, he
realizes that his CX admissions link him right to the K, and he’s trying to fudge around
with his CX response and get out of it. Hold him to the same standard he’s holding me.

Both sides link to the K. Eees a wash.

Let’s go back to the facts:
1. 30,000 people die every year from particle pollution: Fact. He briefly
questioned the validity of the study in CX, but other than that, not a peep from the
neg on this point.
2. The Aff has the only solvency: Any chance he had at solving our harms died
with the CP. The only way that you can save these people, and the countless little
squirrels, possums, bears, and naked-mole rats that are harmed by this deadly
pollution is to vote aff.
3. The Aff has perfect solvency: Our plan claims 99.8% solvency for the particle
pollution, based on multiple pilot projects. That’s an even better success rate than
plumpy’nut.
4. Think of Burl. Remember the Washington post article?

Every time I hear our political leaders talk about "clean coal," I think about
Burl, an irascible old coal miner in West Virginia. After 35 years underground,
he struggled to conjure enough breath to match his storytelling verve, as if the
iron hoops of a whiskey barrel had been strapped around his lungs. In 1983,
during my first visit to Appalachia as a young man, Burl rolled up his pants and
showed me the leg that had been mangled in a mining accident. The scars snaked
down to his ankles. "My grandpa barely survived an accident in the mines in
southern Illinois," I told him. "He had these blue marks and bits of coal buried in his
face." "Coal tattoo," Burl wheezed. "Don't let anyone ever tell you that coal is
clean."

Well folks, coal isn’t clean. Coal is deadly. The same toxic ash and pollution that has
mangled poor Burl is also polluting our air. But fortunately for us, we don’t have to go
the way of the Burl. We can’t clean the coal, but we can clean the air. Vote aff, so that we
don’t all end up with an iron whiskey barrel around our lungs. Vote aff for clean water.
Vote aff to save the deer from arsenic. Vote aff for clean air.