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PURCHASE AND DOWNLOAD RIGHT NOW!! Big Sky Debate is pleased to release its Spring 2010 UIL Lincoln-Douglas Debate resources on environmental philosophy!  The resolution, released by the National Forensics League on December 11, 2009, is:

 RESOLVED: Anthropocentrism ought to be valued above biocentrism.

A list of briefs for this book appears below the fold.

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METADEBATE

• DECISION TIME IS NOW
• WHAT IS BIOCENTRICISM?
  
• WHAT IS DEEP ECOLOGY?
• RESOLUTION KRITIK: CREATING DUALITY BETWEEN THE TWO IS BAD

AFFIRMATIVE

• DEBATE FORMAT DEMANDS AFFIRMATIVE BALLOT
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BEST: HUMANS SHOULD BE AT THE TOP OF THE MORAL SCALE
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BEST: ALLOWS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT TO BE PROTECTED
  
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BEST: ALLOWS FOR A LONG-TERM VIEW TO BE ADOPTED
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BEST: NEED HUMAN ETHICAL SYSTEMS TO EXPRESS VALUE TO NATURE
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BEST: HUMAN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIRONMENT = BIG IMPACT
• BIOCENTRICISM → ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BASE
• BIOCENTRICISM BAD: BIOCENTRICISM IS A VAGUE PHILOSOPHY
• BIOCENTRICISM BAD: ADVOCATES USE INFLAMED RHETORIC
• BIOCENTRICISM BAD: WON’T SOLVE ENVIRONMENT PROBLEMS
• BIOCENTRICISM BAD: IDEOLOGY IS ANTI-HUMAN
• BIOCENTRICISM BAD: LEAVES HUMAN SYSTEMS WITHOUT DECISION-MAKING MATRIXES
• A/T: ANTHROPOCENTRISM LEADS TO DEVALUING ____ VALUE
  

NEGATIVE

• BIOCENTRICISM BEST: HUMAN CLAIMS OF HELPING ENVIRONMENT DOOMS THE EARTH
• BIOCENTRICISM BEST: BEST HOPE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
• BIOCENTRICISM BEST: SEEING THE WORLD AS A BIOTIC COMMUNITY BEST
• BIOCENTRICISM BEST: OFFERS TRUE FREEDOM FOR HUMANS
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: HUMAN-BASED WORLD DOOMS THE EARTH
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: HUMAN, INCREMENTAL CHANGE WON’T FIX THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOOM
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: HUMAN SUPERIORITY WILL LEAD TO EXTINCTION
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: HUMAN ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS WILL DOOM THE EARTH
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: SEEING EARTH AS A RESOURCE FOR HUMANS BAD
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: MUST REJECT PROPERTY MINDSET
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: HUMAN CENTEREDNESS HAS NO JUSTIFICATION
  
• ANTHROPOCENTRICISM BAD: HUMAN ELITES DOOM THE ENVIRONMENT
• A/T: HUMAN ACTION REQUIRED TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
• A/T: BIOCENTRICISM/DEEP ECOLOGY IS FASCIST/TOTALITARIAN
• A/T: BIOCENTRICISM IS MISANTHROPIC
• A/T: BIOCENTRICISM TOO SIMPLISTIC OF A WORLD VIEW