You want to claim that the purpose of punishment should be reform, but additional punishment for hate crimes would only cause resentment and backlash. If anything, additional punishment worsens the likelihood of ever combating racism or homophobia because bigotry will fixate on how the government is supporting specific categories of people. Affirmatives should research sustainable development. Sustainable development is the economist lingo used in reference to economic development happening with environmental stability in mind. Some of these economists claim that environmental degradation happens because of poverty.
Poverty forces nations to misuse resources and mismanage their environments.
Negatives need to focus on debunking development, which should be easy since much of the literature on this topic is written against development. Sustainable development is a fantasy that has never been realized. I would run a case that focused on the environment s connections to the cultural identities of people in lesser developed countries. LDers need to forget their nasty preoccupation with using the United States as the key example and center of debate topics. Construct an affirmative around three or four good examples of times people had to flee for their lives and then paint the negative as heartless and plainly unrealistic.