Impacts 101The What, the Why, and the How of Impacts

What is an Impact? Uniqueness, Link, and Impact What makes an Impact Claim Good? What are the impacts of the 1AC?

Economy Hegemony Global Warming International Cooperation? African Instability Zoonotic Disease Spread And Many Others

Terrorism DA? Nuclear Terrorism

Parts of an Impact General Impact/”Impact Scenario” –

Terrorism (Nuclear Terrorism) Terminal Impacts

Nuclear Terrorism Global Nuclear War and Extinction

Types of Impacts Event Based Impacts

War Nuclear Terrorism Others?

Systemic/Structural Impacts Poverty Gendered Violence Starvation Rights

Impact Framing/Why Your Impact is More Important Other Names

“Impact Filter” “Outweighs” “Impact Calculus” “Impact Comparisons”

How to Frame Impacts Probability Time Frame Magnitude Interaction

Probability How likely something is to occur

Asteroids Poverty Economic Decline War Nuclear Terrorism Aliens?

What affects probability in a debate round?

Time Frame How quickly something will occur

Global Warming Economy Asteroids Poverty

What arguments speak to time frame in a debate?

Magnitude How bad something would be

Asteroids Global Warming Nuclear Terrorism Poverty

Extinction “Try-or-Die”

Interaction Case Turns/Solves DA Tech Leadership Advantage vs. Terrorism DA

Hegemony (Keck, 14) Global Warming

DA turns Case Terrorism DA vs. Net Freedom Advantage

Economic Decline Global Internet/Nationalization Bad

What are some others? Hegemony and Economy

Subsumes Global Nuclear War includes India/Pakistan Nuclear War

Impact Turns Internal/General Impact

Hege Good/Bad Economic Growth Good/Bad (“De Dev”) Nationalization of Internet Good/Bad

External/Terminal Impact Death Good (Malthus AKA Population) Extinction Good (Wipeout) War Good (Spark, Nuclear Malthus, US-China)

How to Impact Turn _____________ = Inevitable Better Now than Later Impact Defense/Turn For All Other

Team’s Impacts

Example: Economic Growth Bad Neg: Economic Growth Bad (De-Development) Aff Advantages: Net Freedom and Human

Rights Human Rights:

Credibility - WMD Conflict International Cooperation – Laundry List

Net Freedom: Economy – War Global Connections: Laundry List (Global Warming,

Diseases)

De-Dev A. Economic Growth is unsustainable

(collapse inevitable) Economic Growth Causes Global

Warming Warming Causes Extinction (Collapse

Now is Good)

Economic Collapse Not Cause War (Impact Defense)

Pro Tips Better to win one well than to sort of win

2 Read impact defense to the other sides

impacts Impact Uniqueness

Global Warming (Yes/No) Economic Decline (Yes/No)

When to Impact Turn