Dear Ethos users, there is a slight correction I need to make. Joseph Mollath of California helped with the Coca-Cola case mandates and I completely forgot to give him credit. This deserves a fun story about it all… [insert those weird swishing sounds on audio-books when someone tells a story]
Back at PHC debate camp this past summer we were practicing CX. I (Isaiah) read a case and then piles of people took turns CXing and we’d practice doing it over and switch places until we had sufficiently beat each other up. Well, I decided to use the Coca-Cola case first, so I read it and then let this guy Joseph Mollath be the first to CX. It sounded something like this:
“So you’re going to replenish the water tables?” (Joseph)
“Yes” (Isaiah)
“How will you be filtering that water?”
“…through strainers? No seriously, I don’t think rainwater comes filtered”
“And where do you plan to get the millions of gallons of water?”
“hmmm…snow from the Himalayas? I don’t know. They’ll just have to figure it out.”
“Are you aware that you have to use a coal filter and even then it takes 20-80 years to replenish water tables?”
“Haha, no, I’m not. And you’re making this up.”
“Haha, no, I’m not — I’m the reigning California science champion in water table replenishment. 2 years running.”
“::meep:: Okay, you win…ALL IS LOST!”
So, you see, considering Joseph’s expertise, I asked him to help me fix the mandates for the actual putting of in Ethos [an improper grammatical structured sentence that sounds like Yoda is called an anastrophe, just fyi]. He did, its there, I forgot to give him credit š
Please forgive me Joseph.
I always smile when I think of that CX. When I asked you that 20-80 years question you just turned to me and had this look on your face that I will always remember. No biggy about not remembering. I forget things all the time. Though I got to say that was probably my favorite moment of the whole camp ;-D
This would actually be a good time to thank all of those who helped with Ethos either through feedback/editing/proofreading of material or through giving support to endless conversations/research time/thought about India. I’m actually not sure who all helped, but I know a big thanks goes to Amy McPeak (without her support, this would go nowhere and to be this supportive while waiting on a baby – well, you who know her know she is pretty great). For all those who helped with the briefs, edited the work, organized the work, proofread the work and everything else you did: Thank You!
I think I told Tim E. or Isaiah about the Indus Water Treaty article, “The Politics of Water in Southeast Asia”, where the author lays out the case for IWT intervention. I could be wrong, but I know for sure I tossed the idea around several members of the leadership. Maybe they just filtered me out and found it later, but I was pretty shocked/thrilled to see that on the caselist.
Well, that paper was one of the first I found early in June and the case idea was already being worked on. But we sure do appreciate people bringing good articles to our attention!