Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy ince

We begin with a narrative from BRE, a homeless person living in Tornoto, Canada. "My body is viewed as garbage. In a popular series of ads for a local Toronto radio station, a homeless person is shown sitting on a garbage can. Emblazoned on the photo is the word "PEST." A middle-class tourist is overheard saying abou those of us who rest outside his hotel: "The kindest thing would be to get them all drunk and just put them to sleep. Nobody would know the difference. Nobody knows them. They'd never be missed." Graffiti screaming "kill the poor" has appeared around town over the last few years. threatened violence is too often played out for real. We are reminded of the vulnerability of our bodies when a friend is killed while sleeping in a park... the contempt, the lies, the innuendo, and the stereotypes of the media and the politicians are the first manipulating steps to the hatred that must be necessary before killing seems acceptable"... We are the naked lives, and there are man, including indigenous people and nonstatus immigrants, who are deemed not to be part of the decision-making body: the citizenry" Debate is no different. The game we play has evolved to exclude the poor, to exclude the population that our proposed "policies" might affect. BRE continunes. "This politics of exclusion removes our poor bodies from civil society and the realm of citizenship. Exclusion, being rendered invisible, immaterial, is a common bodily experience. Goverments don't invite us to take part in discussions on issues that affect our lives. The comfortable chairs at summits on living and working opportunities are not filled by poor people. We are not asked to tell our own stories and we do not get many opportunities. We are treated as objects rather than subjects" We see this ever more in debate. Debate is filled with the rich, those who can afford to travel to tournaments that cost hundreds and institutes that cost thousands. Break rounds are filled with those who go to big name schools that cost thousands. The majority of the debate community thinks that we can understand and solve problems that affect people we have no relation with. BRE continunes "poor people have as much control over government experiments or think-tank theorizing about their future as lab rats have in a cancer experiment" Online debate is no different. We only accept those with a computer and internet access, we make subjects out of the people we debate about, yet do not include them. Not only is the system of debate set up to exclude the poor, but it also set up to exclude dissent. Technical proficiency and speed are increasingly taught as the only way to win rounds. The purpose of debate today isn't to change anything rather to out tech your opponents and win rounds. Criticism that attempts to create change is taboo, and are quickly force to the outskirts of debate and erased. Although nothing is done in a debate round, much is accomplished. Incorporating narratives and experiences is an important way to create this change. By becoming aware of others struggles and forms of resistance against the system allow us to incorporate them in to our own movement and create change. Just like the debate community so too has the state evolved to exclude others. Structural violence, energy problems, and discrimination all result from the lack of ability to influence political decisions and change within structures we live through. The debate should NOT be about competing policy options, the role of the ballot can be as something to endorse critique. It is an endorsement of finding positions of subversive ness in the struggle against bureaucracy. My argument is an alternative framing of debate. I believe that debate shouldn't be about affirming some government action that I can't affect. Rather, we should affirm our own action. The ballot can be used to construct new possibilities of resistance by exposing the flawed nature of existing institutions including debate itself.. Resistance against the system quickly spreads and your ballot plays a key role Looking forward to your response :-)