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====The United States federal government should offer to support and pursue full member status in the Arctic Council for China if China agrees to participate in bilateral cooperative agreements regarding Arctic scientific research, environmental monitoring and environmental policy issues.====

It's not too late – action on warming can prevent devastating impacts,
Sam Kutesa (Uganda), Assembly President, said the well-being of the AND contested. The threat was global in nature, which required global action.
 * UN 15** (United Nations, "Failure to Constrain Climate Change Will Create 'Climate Chaos', Secretary-General Says at High-Level General Assembly Event Aimed at Inspiring Ambitious Accord," 6-29-15, http://www.un.org/press/en/2015/ga11658.doc.htm)

US-China cooperation on warming is key – they're the two largest emitters and drive multilateral action – renewed cooperation is vital
The Paris Summit in December 2015 is being seen as the "last chance" AND government retreats from efforts to curb emissions in favor of stabilizing economic growth.
 * Hongzhou, 15**—Zhang, Associate Research Fellow with the China Programme @ S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). "China-US Climate Change Cooperation: Beyond Energy," The Diplomat, Oct 13, http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/china-us-climate-change-cooperation-beyond-energy/ —br

China's not backing Arctic warming initiatives now, decking broader US-China warming cooperation – supporting Beijing's Arctic status is key
On Sunday and Monday, foreign ministers and other international leaders met in Anchorage, AND Paris summit, and for U.S.-China cooperation in general.
 * Tiezzi, 15**—Shannon, Editor at The Diplomat, previously served as a research associate at the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, MA @ Harvard, also studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "Why Did China Opt Out of the Arctic Climate Change Statement?" The Diplomat, Sept 1, http://thediplomat.com/2015/09/why-did-china-opt-out-of-the-arctic-climate-change-statement/ —br

Only the plan can revive cooperation – it spurs highly-visible, lasting change to combat warming
Fifth, joint Arctic marine research is an arena with much promise. Joint oceanographic AND within their already existing dialogue and in international organizations including the Arctic Council.
 * Slayton and Brigham, 15**—David Slayton is research fellow, co-chair and executive director of the Arctic Security Initiative at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Lawson W. Brigham is distinguished professor of geography and Arctic policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a fellow at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Center for Arctic Study & Policy, and a member of Hoover's Arctic Security Initiative. "Strengthen Arctic cooperation between the US and China," Aug 27, Alaska Dispatch News (ADN), http://www.adn.com/article/20150827/strengthen-arctic-cooperation-between-us-and-china —br

The China-U.S. relationship is a daily and recurring, sometimes AND , World Meteorological Organization, and International Hydrographic Organization, among other institutions.
 * ====Acting now is key to reviving US-China Arctic cooperation**
 * Slayton and Brigham, 15**—David Slayton is research fellow, co-chair and executive director of the Arctic Security Initiative at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Lawson W. Brigham is distinguished professor of geography and Arctic policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a fellow at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Center for Arctic Study & Policy, and a member of Hoover's Arctic Security Initiative. "Strengthen Arctic cooperation between the US and China," Aug 27, Alaska Dispatch News (ADN), http://www.adn.com/article/20150827/strengthen-arctic-cooperation-between-us-and-china —br

Arctic cooperation is vital to combatting warming – it's the epicenter of wider US-China climate efforts
Five key areas of cooperation can enhance Arctic cooperation between the U.S. AND the linkages of the polar regions to global change is another fruitful course ahead
 * Slayton and Brigham, 15**—David Slayton is research fellow, co-chair and executive director of the Arctic Security Initiative at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Lawson W. Brigham is distinguished professor of geography and Arctic policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a fellow at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Center for Arctic Study & Policy, and a member of Hoover's Arctic Security Initiative. "Strengthen Arctic cooperation between the US and China," Aug 27, Alaska Dispatch News (ADN), http://www.adn.com/article/20150827/strengthen-arctic-cooperation-between-us-and-china —br

Climate change produces massive human injustices on improvised nations, communities, and populations—crosses lines of race and gender—policy response key
Project Quipu, examining the manner in which financial news is reported in the popular media, The Hot Spring Network proposes to create a system whereby live-update, rss-technology, and financial and editorial expertise, come together to produce a reliable up-to-the-minute resource for evaluating broad economic trends and engagements, without limiting analysis to single-parameter references like GDP or individual stock indices, "Climate Justice is About Preventing Structural Violence", March 11, https://web.archive.org/web/20130311092246/http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2013/03/11/9120/climate-justice-is-about-preventing-structural-violence/ When we discuss climate change, global warming or the human-caused destabilization of AND without which we will not achieve the best possible outcome for real people.
 * Quipu 13**

====Climate change is already devastating lives globally and in the US—-inaction is complicity and guarantees future Katrinas. Environmental justice requires expanding our spatial empathetic lens to account for distant others that are dying because of our choices.==== Pulido 12 – PhD, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, researches race, environmental justice, Chicana/o Studies, critical human geography, and Los Angeles (Laura, "The Future is Now: Climate Change and Environmental Justice," Social Text) On one side of town, there would be ecological 'haves,' enjoying AND dying of dehydration to know that an informal triage is already at work.

Climate change innately victimizes those on the margins of society. Working within a framework that orients climate policies around human rights is the only way to benefit these people
INTRODUCTION :- Human rights law is relevant because climate change causes human rights violations. AND migration and resettlement; and with personal security in the extent of conflict.
 * Sonia 14** Research Scholar, Dept. of Law , M. D. University, Rohtak. (PhD in Biotech, "HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE," Golden Research Thoughts: Volume 3 – Issue 12. Science Direct. Aygrt.isrj.org/UploadedData/4066.pdf, 06/14, Date Accessed: 06/20/16, e.w.)

Warming turns every impact
Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was AND investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix!
 * Sharp and Kennedy, 14** – is an associate professor on the faculty of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA). A former British Army Colonel he retired in 2006 and emigrated to the U.S. Since joining NESA in 2010, he has focused on Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported NESA events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Qatar. He is the faculty lead for NESA's work supporting theUAE National Defense College through an ongoing Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case. He also directs the Network of Defense and Staff Colleges (NDSC) which aims to provide best practice support to regional professional military and security sector education development and reform. Prior to joining NESA, he served for 4 years as an assistant professor at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) at National Defense University where he wrote and taught a Masters' Degree syllabus for a program concentration in Conflict Management of Stability Operations and also taught strategy, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and also created an International Homeland Defense Fellowship program. At CISA he also designed, wrote and taught courses supporting the State Department's Civilian Response Corps utilizing conflict management approaches. Bob served 25 years in the British Army and was personally decorated by Her Majesty the Queen twice. Aftergraduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in 1981, he served in command and staff roles on operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Afghanistan, and Cyprus. He has worked in policy and technical staff appointments in the UK Ministry of Defense and also UK Defense Intelligence plus several multi-national organizations including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In his later career, he specialized in intelligence. He is a 2004 distinguished graduate of the National War College and holds a masters degree in National Security Strategy from National Defense University, Washington, D.C. AND is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets (Robert and Edward, 8-22, "Climate Change and Implications for National Security" http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2014/08/22/climate-change-implications-national-security/)djm

Representations of warming is motivating and spurs individual activism
Veldman 12 – PhD Candidate Religion and Nature at U of Florida (Robin- National Foundation Fellow at the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, Spring, "Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists" Ethics and the Environment, Vol 17 No 1, ProjectMuse) Environmental Apocalypticism and Activism As we saw in the introduction, critics often argue that AND apocalypticism and moral reasoning looks like in practice. [End Page 12]

The thesis of 'climate alarmism' is absurd- the public isn't massively exposes to doomsday messages- only the aff offers a way to reframe the climate debate to motivate productive action
(Joe Romm is a Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the indispensable blog" and Time magazine named one of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010.″ In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm #88 on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Time named him a "Hero of the Environment″ and "The Web's most influential climate-change blogger." Romm was acting assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in R&D, demonstration, and deployment of low-carbon technology. He is a Senior Fellow at American Progress and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT., 2/26/2012, "Apocalypse Not: The Oscars, The Media And The Myth of 'Constant Repetition of Doomsday Messages' on Climate", http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/02/26/432546/apocalypse-not-oscars-media-myth-of-repetition-of-doomsday-messages-on-climate/#more-432546) The two greatest myths about global warming communications are 1) constant repetition of doomsday AND by most of the rest of the media, intelligentsia and popular culture.
 * Romm 12**

Framing
====Criticisms of the United States must take into account its contribution to the existential crisis of climate change. The impact is both systemic and predictive. Strategies that do not acknowledge the complexity of climate change are ethically irresponsible and preclude effective solutions.==== While it is true that queer is, as Alexander Doty pointed out, best AND experienced by women, people of color, and disabled and poor people.
 * Hall** 20**14** – Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Affiliate of Women's Studies and Sustainable Development, Appalachian State University (Kim Q., "No Failure: Climate Change, Radical Hope, and Queer Crip Feminist Eco-Futures," Radical Philosophy Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, p. 203-225)

The 1ac's narrative of environmental risk is motivating and drives individual activism – proves we've performed our pedagogy
Veldman 12 – PhD Candidate Religion and Nature at U of Florida (Robin- National Foundation Fellow at the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, Spring, "Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists" Ethics and the Environment, Vol 17 No 1, ProjectMuse) Environmental Apocalypticism and Activism As we saw in the introduction, critics often argue that AND apocalypticism and moral reasoning looks like in practice. [End Page 12]

State sovereignty isn't your enemy- it's the only mechanism to enforce environmental norms to prevent the worst
Although the sovereignty-as-enemy perspective is appealing, a counterargument can be AND multiple guises appears to be both a friend and a foe to nature.
 * Litfin '97** (Karen T, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Mershon International Studies Review, "Sovereignty in World Ecopolitics'", Accessed 6/19/16)

Actively engaging and pressuring institutions is necessary to counter climate change
(Christian Parenti, former visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics, as well as a Soros Senior Justice Fellow, teaches in the Liberal Studies program at New York University, interview with Vincent Emanuele, writer, activist and radio journalist who lives and works in the Rust Belt, "Climate Change, Militarism, Neoliberalism and the State," May 17, 2015, http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/?p=1980) You mention mutual aid and how it was overhyped by the left in the aftermath AND of climate science very seriously, I am something of a carbon fundamentalist.
 * Parenti & Emanuele 15**

Institutional action is the only way to stop warming
[Robert N., The Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, 4/8/2010, "What's the Proper Role of Individuals and Institutions in Addressing Climate Change?", http://www.robertstavinsblog.org/2010/03/08/what%E2%80%99s-the-proper-role-of-individuals-and-institutions-in-addressing-climate-change/, 7/11/14, TYBG] Decisions affecting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, for example, are made primarily AND , as well as enlightened political leadership at the national and international levels.
 * Stavins,** Harvard Environmental Economics Program Director, **10**

Underlying his plan is an overlooked but crucial subsidiary benefit that he outlined: offloading AND are scientifically convoluted cataclysms in which casualties are postponed, often for generations.
 * ====Prioritize solutions to warming-its impacts are underrepresented in decision calculus====**
 * Nixon 11** (Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, NY Times Contributor and former is an affiliate of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies the Harvard University Press 2011 "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor" Pg 2-3 http://www.elimeyerhoff.com/books/nixon-rob—slow-violence-and-the-environmentalism-of-the-poor.pdf)

No war—-deterrence, interdependence, social changes, and political and business elites
Aziz 14 (John Aziz is the former economics and business editor at TheWeek.com, Don't worry: World War III will almost certainly never happen, 3/6/14, http://theweek.com/article/index/257517/dont-worry-world-war-iii-will-almost-certainly-never-happen) Next year will be the seventieth anniversary of the end of the last global conflict AND countries are less desperate to go to war to seize other people's stuff.