Ecological Cartography Affirmative

A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its essential unfolding.

—Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking"

One of the fundamental problems in environmental policies today is that they legislate policies that are meant to work equally well across a pre-given area, whether a certain state or the entire country. This attempt to make nature fit into political cartographies not only leads to failed policy implementation, but it also promotes violent discourses and practices whose goal is to try and tame nature for human needs, a mindset at the political and cultural center of today's environmental crisis. This affirmative will call for a reorientation of political incentives for a national alternative energy architecture toward a bioregional perspective.