BUILDING UNDERWATER CIVILIZATIONS WOULD NEGATE THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ON THE HUMAN POPULATION

THIS IS COMMON SENSE! IF WE HAD UNDERWATER CIVILIZATIONS THAT COULD SUSTAIN THE EFFECTS OF THE PRESSURE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING BEING A PROBLEM TO US AS THE SEA LEVEL RISING WOULD HAVE NO CRUCIAL IMPACT ON PEOPLE WHO LIVED UNDERWATER.

WE COULD HAVE OUR DOMICILES IN UNDERWATER DOMES. FURTHERMORE, SINCE 75% IF THE PLANET IS MADE UP OF WATER, THAT WOULD JUST BE MORE SPACE FOR US AND OVERPOPULATION WOULD BE SOMEWHAT NULLIFIED FOR A WHILE. THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD PLAN.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE TODAY THAT WE SANCTION THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERWATER CIVILIZATIONS PRONTO!!!

It would be common sense....
-If we could actually build things on the bottom of the oceaon
-If we could actually sustain such large areas with normalized pressure
-If we had the materials to do that
-If we had the money to sanction it
-If we had the money to enforce the sanctions
-If there were actually that many companies willing to do it

But none of the above are true, so you can drop the PRO case.
There is no offense going for him, so he's lost the round.

CASE:

Negate is defined by dictionary.com as "to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of".

My opponent claims that by putting the human population underwater, then we wouldn't feel the effects of global warming anymore, as sea levels rising wouldn't affect us at all. Okay sure, WE HUMAN BEINGS wouldn't be affected IF we could live on the ocean floor, but the rest of the ecosystem will be. And since we're consumers and not producers, we still need to eat other living organisms to survive. We can't do there unless we have land for growing crops and a place to have our livestock... oh wait, all of that is WASHED AWAY BY SEA LEVELS RISING CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING. HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

So even if we all can live underwater somehow, there is going to be a DEFINITE effect that people will notice (more than just the entire human population being displaced), and since people will notice a change, building underwater civilizations would NOT negate the effects of global warming on the human population, you vote CON.