The 1AC’s use of markets to solve climate makes the violence of capital invisible and more pervasive

Inclusive green growth presumes economic growth is an a priori social good. The assumption rests with the argument that each and every day the economy serves more and more people. Namely, economic growth can be neatly aligned with a rise in living standards and a fall in poverty rates. In the words of World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim: We live in a time of great contrasts, when fewer than roo people control as much of the world's wealth as the poorest 3. 5 billion combined. But we also live in a time when many developing countries have the strongest growth rates in the word, which each year helps millions of people lift themselves out of extreme poverty." The primary policy tools used to achieve economic growth in the service of an inclusive green agenda include: eco-tax reform, subsidies, green stimulus investments, investments in green infrastructure, eco-tourism schemes, improved natural resource management, socially inclusive development, and research and development that will address knowledge gaps. The suggested approach is integrative and systemic, using the principles of efficiency and maximizing market solutions. Unsurprisingly, proponents of inclusive green growth view one of the challenges to realizing significant efficiency gains as 'a lack of instruments to "monetize" the benefits of conservation and efficiency and to reward sustainable consumption' .13 The solution to this is to introduce more innovative financing tools and to substantially increase investments in economic activities that improve natural capital. Emphasis is placed on the importance of public-private sector partnerships, whereby the private sector is viewed as an 'active partner of governments', in addition to the institutionalization of local knowledge and politics which has triggered a gamut of new political actors such as non-profit and non-governmental organizations, communities and religious groups entering the political frame of economic policy making. l4 Despite ambitiously setting out to bring social, economic and environmental concerns into balance by adopting a multi-scalar approach to governance that institutionalizes local political actors, the inclusive green growth model continues to push the neoliberal idea that the role of government is to encourage economic efficiency and privatization. 15 Unsurprisingly, one of the primary strategies of green growth is the privatization of the commons. By putting a price on what are otherwise common pool resources such as water, forests and ecosystem services, the model puts its faith in market mechanisms to solve social and environmental issues without defusing the circuitry of structural violence driving social inequity and environmental degradation. Environmental degradation and climate change are problems we share in common with people in different parts of the world, with other species, and future generations. These are therefore potentially solidarity-building issues. Although proponents of inclusive green growth acknowledge the common at the core of environmental issues, by analyzing the situation from the vantage point of economic efficiency and by using criteria such as surplus value, private property, and price, the commoning condition of the problem is appropriated and privatized. In the name of saving the commons, inclusive green growth takes the self-sufficient character of a commons and inscribes it with the law of the market, hereby denying the commons its distinctly autonomous condition. Accordingly, the commons is rendered non-common. In the process the violence capital inflicts on all life forms, a violence environmental degradation and climate change forces out into the open, becomes invisible and inaudible once more. It is at this juncture where the political significance of prioritizing economic growth and efficiency comes into the light of day. Predictably, the assumption driving inclusive green growth is that economic growth is value neutral. Namely, that it is an unquestionable good in and of itself. However, as Piketty demonstrates, economic growth is not a reliable predictor of justice and equality and the reason is not just economic; it is political.