Aff - Hive Mind 1AC - Michigan 7 2023 KLAB

The entire 1AC needs to be CLEAR (including cards) and fit into the 8 minutes (or 6 minutes if LD).
You can only use cards from the UMICH dropbox or produced by your research group.
But you can’t use ANY tags from the files - you have to erase the tags and write all new tags in your voice.
You can only use 3 cards that are in a 1AC or 1NC shell already
You have to use at least 2 cards that are from another part of the file or another file, or that you cut yourself
Your 1AC needs to implicitly follow the stock issues structure:
Inherency (what is the problem?)
Harms (what are the impacts)
Plan (advoacacy statement/alt/method)
Solvency (what does the plan do to address the harms)
Topicality (what is the aff’s position on the topic? what should debates on this topic be about/for?)
We have been raised to think that almost everything your 5 senses notice is real. You have been taught that the world has rules. You’re required to go to school and you have to eat to survive. We as humans supposedly have our own thoughts and many of us believe that we are the best, most superior, and the strongest organism on the planet. But we’re not. There’s something more. Something much smaller. It’s actually right next to you. It’s always been here. The ROB is to reorient our thought out of the hive mind. To cut ties to make ourselves fully independent.
<Water is alive card>
outline
Inherency Harms (impact)l Solvency Topical
FJG to employ all people who want a job so that they are distracted when the gov is poisoning the water
Extinction (policy impacts)
https://theinnerworld.in/spirituality/know-your-roots/water-is-alive/
Masaru Emoto
water is alive
Hive Mind Aff
We have been raised to think that almost everything your 5 senses notice is real. You have been taught that the world has rules. You’re required to go to school until a certain age and you have to eat to survive. We as humans supposedly have our own thoughts and many of us believe that we are the best, most superior, and the strongest organism on the planet. But we’re not. There’s something more. Something much older. It’s actually right next to you. It’s always been here. The ROB is to reorient our thought out of the hive mind. To cut ties to make ourselves fully independent.
Water is not just another substance—it is the life force of majestic nature. It made me once again realize the mysterious ability of water to cleanse and give life to all living. I can see that the soul, feelings, and vibration have an effect on the formation of ice crystals, and through this I can feel the importance of the soul and words. This information is extremely wonderful and uniquely impressive. It appears that ice crystals are closely and permanently linked to the human soul. When I think about why ice crystals have spoken to so many people, I know that it is because they contain the key to the mysteries of the universe, and this key can unlock the consciousness required to understand the proper order of the universe, and our role in it. Water is the mirror of the soul. It has many faces, formed by aligning itself with the consciousness of human beings. What gives water its ability to reflect what is in people’s souls? In order to answer that question, I would first like to make sure that you understand this fact: Existence is vibration.
Dr. Emoto found that when individual water crystals were presented with a variety of words and found that the crystals would change. The water was affected by by human language.
The memory of life arrived on this earth carried by the soul of water. From this memory, life awoke, the human being emerged, and finally you and I were born. And now once again we look at water and breathe life into it. Your consciousness, awareness, and good will, and your smile from a feeling of love, all give new life to water and result in the creation of a new and glorious universe.
Brown 18[Brown, William. Resonance Science Foundation Biophysicist. “Scientists Show That Water Has Memory.” Resonancescience.org, 4 Oct. 2018, www.resonancescience.org/blog/Scientists-Show-That%20Water-Has-Memory. Accessed 17 July 2023.]ABoaitey
A new groundbreaking discovery has been made within the most basic of resources. Scientists have just discovered what they have called “The Discovery of The Millennium”, and a huge revelation in human consciousness. Scientists from Germany now believe that water has a memory, meaning that what once was seen as a simple commodity has now been closely examined to reveal a scientific revelation, uncovering a mind-blowing truth. By examining individual drops of water at an incredibly high magnification, scientists were able to physically see that each droplet of water has its own individual microscopic pattern, each distinguishable from the next and uniquely beautiful. A scientific experiment was carried out whereby a group of students were all encouraged to obtain one drop of water from the same body of water, all at the same time. Through close examination of the individual droplets, it was seen that each produced different images. A second experiment was then carried out where a real flower was placed into a body of water, and after a while a sample droplet of the water was taken out for examination. The resulted produced a mesmerizing pattern when hugely magnified, but all of the droplets of this water looked very similar. When the same experiment was done with a different species of flower, the magnified droplet looked completely different, thereby determining that a particular flower is evident in each droplet of water. Through this discovery which shows that water has a memory, according to scientists, a new perception of water can be formed. The German scientists believe that as water travels it picks up and stores information from all of the places that it has traveled through, which can thereby connect people to a lot of different places and sources of information when they drink this water, depending on the journey that it has been on. This has even been compared to the human body, of which each is incredibly unique and has an individual DNA unlike any other. Whilst the human body is made up of 70% water, conclusions could be drawn from these new discoveries that human tears can hold a unique memory of an individual being, through the body’s store of water hosting a complete store of information that is linked to individual experience. Suggesting that everyone is globally connected by the water in the human body which travels through ongoing journeys, whereby information along the way is always stored.
Debates about a federal Job guarantee, Expanding Social Security, and a Universal Basic Income try to hide the fact that we as humans have created the issues that we debate about. We have structural issues in the world because we made them. Humans are the problem. But it’s not completely our fault.
Right Now Climate change poses an immediate risk to our lives because of what we as humans have done to the planent.. Kaplan ‘23
[Sarah Kaplan is a climate reporter covering humanity's response to a warming world. She previously reported on Earth science and the universe. “World Is on Brink of Catastrophic Warming, U.N. Climate Change Report Says.” Washington Post, The Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023, www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/20/climate-change-ipcc-report-15/. Accessed 24 Mar. 2023.]//ABoaitey
Though much of the synthesis report echoes warnings scientists have issued for decades, the assessment is notable for the blunt certainty of its rhetoric. The phrase “high confidence” appears nearly 200 times in the 36-page summary chapter. Humanity’s responsibility for all of the warming of the global climate system is described as an unassailable “fact.” Yet the report also details how public officials, private investors and other powerful groups have repeatedly failed to heed those warnings. More than 40 percent of cumulative carbon emissions have occurred since 1990 — when the IPCC published its first study on the dangerous consequences of unchecked warming. Governments continue to subsidize fossil fuel use; banks and businesses invest far more in polluting industries than they do in climate solutions. The consumption habits of the wealthiest 10 percent of people generate three times as much pollution as those of the poorest 50 percent, the report said. Decades of delay have denied the world any hope of an easy and gradual transition to a more sustainable economy, the panel says. Now, only “deep, rapid and … immediate” efforts across all aspects of society — combined with still-unproven technologies to pull carbon from the atmosphere — will be able to stave off catastrophe. “It’s not just the way we produce and use energy,” said Christopher Trisos, director of the Climate Risk Lab in the African Climate and Development Initiative at the University of Cape Town and a member of the core writing team for the synthesis report. “It’s the way we consume food, the way we protect nature. It’s kind of like everything, everywhere, all at once.” But few institutions are acting fast enough, the report said. November’s U.N. climate conference in Egypt ended without a resolution to phase down oil, gas and coal — a baseline requirement for curbing climate change. Last year, China approved its largest expansion of coal-fired power plants since 2015. Amid soaring profits, major oil companies are dialing back their clean-energy initiatives and deepening investments in fossil fuels. Humanity is rapidly burning through our “carbon budget” — the amount of pollution the world can afford to emit and still meet its warming targets, the IPCC said, and it projected that emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure will make it impossible to avoid the 1.5-degree threshold Yet even as environmental ministers met in Switzerland last week to finalize the text of the IPCC report, the U.S. government approved a new Arctic drilling project that is expected to produce oil for the next 30 years, noted Hans-Otto Pörtner, a climatologist at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute and a co-author of a dozen IPCC reports, including the latest one. “These decisions don’t match reality,” he said. “There is no more room for compromises.” Failure to act now won’t only condemn humanity to a hotter planet, the IPCC says. It will also make it impossible for future generations to cope with their changed environment. The report reveals thresholds in how much warming people and ecosystems can adapt to. Some are “soft” limits — determined by shortcomings in political and social systems. For example, a low-income community that can’t afford to build flood controls faces soft limits to dealing with sea level rise. But beyond 1.5 degrees of warming, the IPCC says, humanity will run up against “hard limits” to adaptation. Temperatures will get too high to grow many staple crops. Droughts will become so severe that even the strongest water conservation measures can’t compensate. In a world that has warmed roughly 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) — where humanity appears to be headed — the harsh physical realities of climate change will be deadly for countless plants, animals and people. “It’s as if we’re traveling on a carbon-intensive superhighway and we’re in the fast lane,” Trisos said. Unless people immediately pump the brakes on carbon emissions, we will zoom past the off exit for 1.5 degrees of warming — and there will be no turning back. Yet just like drivers who have missed their exit, humanity must strive to stay as close as possible to the 1.5-degree target, Trisos said. “We can still take the 1.6 exit, which will be better than 1.7.” “With every increment of global warming, the danger will increase,” he added. “As we leave it later and take hotter and hotter exits, the fewer options we have to thrive.”
Humans created Capitalism has driven farmers away from production which heightens the food insecurity caused by Climate Change. Hungry People are not peaceful people. History has proven that famines cause political instability and wars. Cribb ‘20
[Julian Cribb is a distinguished science writer with more than thirty awards for journalism. He was a newspaper editor, founder of the influential ScienceAlert website and author of eight books, including The Coming Famine. Cribb, Julian. “Is a Food Crisis the next Big Hit for Humanity?” MAHB, 19 May 2020, mahb.stanford.edu/blog/is-a-food-crisis-the-next-big-hit-for-humanity/. Accessed 29 Mar. 2023.] //ABoaitey
The looming food crisis starts with three primary causes: The global ‘just-in-time’ industrial food and supermarket system is not fit for purpose in guaranteeing food security. It is all about money, and not about human safety or nutrition. Its links are fragile and any of them can break, precipitating chaos – especially in big cities. The agricultural system we know and love is becoming increasingly unreliable owing to climate change, catastrophic loss of soils worldwide, shortages of water, and narrowing of its genetic base. Farmers are struggling with their own pandemics in the form of swine fever, armyworms, and locusts. This unreliability will become increasingly critical from the 2020s to the mid-century. The predatory world economic system now punishes farmers by paying them less and less for their produce, driving them off their farms and increasingly forcing those who remain to use unsustainable methods of food production. This is causing a worldwide loss of farmers and their skills and destruction of the agricultural resource base and ecosystem at a time of rising food instability (4). The reason that a food crisis is far more serious than either the coronavirus or its economic meltdown, is that the death toll is generally far larger. More than 200 million people have died in various famines over the last century and a half, and many of those famines led to civil wars, international wars, and governmental collapses. That is why we need to pay attention now – before a new global food crisis arises. Not brush it aside, as so many inept world leaders have done with the virus. The Spanish have a well-learned saying that “Lo que separa la civilización de la anarquía son solo siete comidas (5).” The French and Russian Revolutions both arose out of famines. WWII arose partly out of Hitler’s desire to capture Soviet farmlands in order to avoid another WWI famine in Germany. Many modern African wars are over food or the means to produce it. The Syrian civil war began with a climate-driven food crisis. Indeed, there is growing evidence that lack of food plays a catalytic role in around two-thirds of contemporary armed conflicts. As US former president Jimmy Carter has observed: “Hungry people are not peaceful people (6).” Food failures bring down governments and cause states to fail. In 2012 a drought in Russia and the Ukraine forced them to cut grain supplies to Egypt and Libya – where governments promptly fell to popular revolutions. It was a strange echo of history: in the third century, a combination of climate change and a pandemic caused a failure in grain supplies from North Africa, an economic crash and, ultimately, the end of the Roman Empire. While there is ‘no need to panic’ over food, there is a very clear and urgent need for plans to forestall major shortages around the world. Yet, there is very little evidence that governments worldwide are preparing to head off a food crisis, other than to reassure their citizens, like Trump, that there isn’t a problem. However, lack of trust by citizens in their governments has already prompted a global rush to stock up on staple foods which has ‘upended’ the vulnerable ‘just-in-time’ food delivery system in many countries (7)
It's water’s fault that we are about to cause our own extinction. Water has controlled the human population ever since the first person drank water. Water has its own mind and it connects every single person as a hive mind. We all need water, we’re made of 70% water, because water controls us Water has control over our bodies, it can think remembers what we do to it. It will know when we pollute it. It will punish us.
Thus the USFG should substantially increase fiscal redistribution in the US by enacting a climate federal jobs guarantee to distract citizens while severing from the hive mind.
A federal jobs guarantee will solve climate change, which is the root of most of our problems.
Varshini & Meyerhoff ‘18[Prakash, Varshini has been an organizer in the climate justice movement for over 5 years, first leading fossil fuel divestment campaigns at the local and national level and then moving on to found and direct Sunrise. She currently serves as the Communications Director. Varshini lives in Boston, MA. Sarah Meyerhoff supports the Sunrise Movement’s policy and communications work. She is based in Washington D.C., where she also works in reproductive health policy. Sarah Meyerhoff. “It’s Time for the Climate Movement to Embrace a Federal Jobs Guarantee.” In These Times, in-these-times, 24 May 2018, inthesetimes.com/article/climate-movement-federal-jobs-guarantee-bernie-sanders-2018. Accessed 17 July 2023.] ABoaitey
With global temperatures rising and midterm elections approaching, 2018 is the year the climate movement must take bold action towards a fossil-free future. Across the country, young people face daily reminders that our society doesn’t serve our futures. We suffer from unemployment and underemployment that is well beyond the national average, with young people of color struggling disproportionately to find work and economic opportunity. We are straddled with historic student loan debts. And in a moment when we should be working quickly to avert climate catastrophe and transition to an inclusive, fossil-free economy, many of our elected officials remain passive as the Trump administration attacks our air, water and land. As youth leaders in the climate justice movement, we believe now is the time to embrace a bold political vision that addresses climate change while working to end racialized economic inequality. A centerpiece of that vision is a federal jobs guarantee, a policy through which the government directly employs anyone who wants a job but doesn’t have one. The jobs guarantee has deep roots in the U.S. progressive tradition and is seeing growing support from scholars and movement leaders who tout its potential to put Americans to work while helping to rebuild our infrastructure, schools and healthcare system. With Sen. Bernie Sanders developing a jobs guarantee proposal, as well as a score of down-ballot candidates and Democratic presidential hopefuls also voicing support, the policy is sure to feature prominently in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles. Climate scientists say that the next few years may be the only ones we have left to avert catastrophic global warming. A jobs guarantee program with a strong focus on stopping and preparing for climate change — a climate jobs guarantee — might be the last, best hope to quickly marshal public support and resources behind climate action. Simply put, this is a can’t-miss opportunity for the climate movement — and for our generation. Toward a climate jobs guarantee Solving the climate crisis will be no easy feat. It will require massive investments, to the tune of trillions of dollars over the next few decades — to transition toward a 100 percent renewable energy economy; to overhaul how we farm, transport and consume food; to restore depleted ecosystems; and to empower the communities already affected by the climate crisis to adapt to changes that cannot be reversed. Each of these undertakings will also require massive job creation. A climate jobs guarantee has the potential to create a labor force that could be the engine of rapid decarbonization, and the services it generates can enhance communities’ resilience to climate impacts. Importantly, such a program can elevate those communities w

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