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The logic of capitalism results in extinction through the creation of ecological catastrophe and violent imperialist wars

Foster 5 John Bellamy, Monthly Review, September, Vol. 57, Issue 4, “Naked Imperialism”, http:~/~/www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm(%%)

From the longer view...the new naked imperialism.

Vote negative to adopt the historical material criticism of the 1NC - historical analysis of the material conditions of capital is the only way to break free from is contradictions and social inequalities it causes

Tumino 1 (Steven, teaches at the City University of New York, Spring, What is Orthodox Marxism and Why it Matters Now More Than Ever Before)

Any effective political theory...that masquerades as social theory.

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The purposes and possibilities for energy generation are channeled through technological thinking; all Beings can be reduced to an energy source

O’Brien 4 (Mahon, Professor of Philosophy at University College, Cork, Ireland, “Commentary on Heidegger’s ‘The Question Concerning Technology,” Thinking Together. Proceedings of the IWM Junior Fellows' Conference, http://www.iwm.at/publ-jvc/jc-16-01.pdf)

It is a charge which many...have radically different filtration systems.

Technological enframing becomes intelligibility itself—this reduces the life to mere standing reserve

Thomson 4 (Iain, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of New Mexico. “Ontology and Ethics at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Environmental Philosophy”, published in Ecophenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself copyright 03. PDF accessed July 2, 2008  p. 396)

The later Heidegger's ontological...their attention through technological means.

The alternative is to embrace “bringing forth”. Only through refraining from certain revealing’s of the world can we avoid technological thinking and grasp the saving power

Waddington 5 A Field Guide to Heidegger: Understanding 'The Question concerning Technology' more by David Waddington Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2005 http://concordia.academia.edu/DavidWaddington/Papers/538046/A_Field_Guide_to_Heidegger_Understanding_The_Question_concerning_Technology

Most essays on technology...the open space of destining'

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The 50 states and all relevant U.S. territories should...

State action gets modeled due to local innovation

Lash 7 (Jonathan, “Climate Policy in the State Laboratory: How States Influence Federal Regulation and the Implications for U.S. Policy,” World Resources Institute, September, http:~/~/www.wri.org/publication/org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory(%%), TGA)

America has a long...low-carbon economy of the future.

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1. CIR will pass now

CF News 1/6 (Will 113th Congress increase chance for immigration reform?, http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/1/6/will_113th_congress_.html)

President Barack Obama...obtain legal status.

2. Obama’s political capital is key.

Hesson 1/2 (Ted, Immigration Editor at ABC News, Analysis: 6 Things Obama Needs To Do for Immigration Reform, http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/things-president-obama-immigration-reform/story?id=18103115#.UOTq55JIAho)

On Sunday...in the room," Chishti said.

3. Solar energy incentives are politically dangerous – past failures has given similar programs a bad reputation

Bloomberg 12 (June 28, “Abound Failure Revives Debate Over Obama Solar Policies”, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-29/abound-failure-revives-debate-over-obama-solar-policies.html)

The failure of a second solar...Jordan told reporters.

4. Immigration reform is key to food security

Fitz 12 (Marshall Fitz is the Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress, Time to Legalize Our 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants, November 14^th, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/report/2012/11/14/44885/time-to-legalize-our-11-million-undocumented-immigrants/)

Nowhere is the tension between...and others have pursued. 

5. Food shortages lead to extinction.

Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, ‘9

The biggest threat to...global civilization itself. 

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A.  INTERPRETATION.  A restriction must actually prevent production, not just indirectly make it more difficult.  Legal interpretations in the context of a similar kind of regulation support.

New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice Pound in 33

Roscoe, Nebbia v. New York, 262 N.Y 259, 264, lexis

The fixing of...his milk.

He continues New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice Pound in 33

Roscoe, Nebbia v. New York, 262 N.Y 259, 271, lexis

The New York Law...than ice.

US Supreme Court Justice Roberts in 34

(Owen, Majority opinion in Nebbia v. New York, 291 U.S. 502, 531, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=usandvol=291andinvol=502

Notwithstanding the admitted...there is no such principle.

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Free will doesn’t exist – scientific consensus proves

Clark 10 February 24, 2010Tom Clark is the director of the Center for org/(%%). http:~/~/www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/02/freedom_from_free_html

Distaste for science...courses of action.

Epistemic suffering is the only impact that exists; the Affirmatives focus on atrocity creates needless suffering

Vonnegut 69 (Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade, http:~/~/literature2.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/pdf, 1969)

Billy expected the Tralfamadorians...concentrate on the good ones.'

The Alternative is to reject the Affirmative. Embracing genetic determinism fosters empathy and reduces violent modes of thought by eliminating the fallacy of “blame” and “fault”

Clark 10 February 24, 2010Tom Clark is the director of the Center for org/(%%). http:~/~/www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/02/freedom_from_free_html

Finally, seeing that we...freedom from free will.

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There’s no such thing as modernity. Their embrace of this false historical juncture as a totalizing enemy accepts the playing field established by modernists – time as linear history, the subject as human – which renders radical politics useless. Instead, we should endorse non-modernism: by counterfactually refusing modernity’s existence we understand history as network connections rather than obliterate it

Latour 93 (Bruno, a French sociologist of science1 and anthropologist2 and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).3 After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he is now Professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006),4 where he is the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab.We Have Never Been Modern) RCM

I now have a choice...as little known.

The affirmative’s reliance on the category of nature as a new foundation of politics does not challenge technicism, but serves as its ultimate reification—by hiding politics in the neutral sphere of nature, they create a system of bureaucrats who are the only one’s capable of producing knowledge about complex ecosystems and their intricate web of relations. They simply replace realpolitik with naturalpolitik

Latour 4, (Professor, Center for the Study of Innovation at the School of Mines, “How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy”) RCM (more goodness available from this ancient wikipage: http:~/~/opencaselist10.wikispaces.com/com/Harvard+JP )

The End of Nature We...of political organization.

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Their infatuation to theoretical purity makes political and institutional engagement impossible.  Political engagement is always cast against the theoretical purity of abstract philosophizing.  This also turns their argument because, despite their radical aspirations, critique smuggles metaphysical distinctions between thinking and acting, purity and impurity, and truth and falsity into the judge’s decisionmaking calculus.

Yar 2k (Majid, Ph.D in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, “Arendt's Heideggerianism: Contours of a `Postmetaphysical' Political Theory?,” Cultural Values, Volume 4, Issue 1, January, Academic Search Complete)

Similarly, we must consider...ends in the process.

The political is value to life—it is how originally solipsistic lives become incarnate and real to themselves.

Arendt 1958 Hannah, The Human Condition, pp. 196-199

The original...without reality.

No solvency for their critique without institutional focus.  We must try to change policy in order to change the world—the concentration of power in the hands of political elites is inevitable, so we must work within that system to check oppression and violence.

Themba-Nixon 2k Makani, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, Colorlines 3.2, pg. 12

The flourish and...making it so.

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The United States federal government should ban all subsidies and tax credits for energy production and institute a carbon tax per ton of emissions and a security tax per barrel of oil. The tax should be revenue neutral and the revenue should be used for offsetting reductions in income and payroll taxes and increases in the earned income tax credit.

A carbon and a security tax solves better for warming and energy depedence and avoids picking winners

Griffin 9 (James, Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University; Director of the Robert A. Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics and Public Policy; he holds the Bob Bullock Chair in Public Policy and Finance and is a director in the Berkeley Research Group, a boutique economic consulting house; Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania; he is a Humboldt Fellow and serves on the editorial board of three economics journals; his research has resulted in six books and over 50 refereed journal articles; he has maintained a long-standing interest in energy policy, having co-authored the leading textbook in the field; “A smart energy policy: an economist's Rx for balancing cheap, clean, and secure energy” p.4-5)

In this book...private interest groups.

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The US Congress should institute minimum federal standards for net metering including “full credit” for all kilowatt-hours produced, net billing, a minimum interconnection standard, and just compensation for excess power customer-generators place on the grid. Congress should also eliminate any existing technology-specific renewable energy subsidies.

Congressional minimum standards for net metering solves the whole aff by itself – it’s what their Baker-Branstetter 11 evidence is really advocating

Baker-Branstetter 11 Shannon, policy counsel for Consumers Union and is a member of the California Bar. She earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, Master's in Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles, and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, Villanova Environmental Law Journal, 22 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 1, 2011, p. 23

Congress should institute....other customer classes.

Net metering is the best way to promote solar power and renewable distributed generation AND utility companies love it

Baker-Branstetter 11 Shannon, policy counsel for Consumers Union and is a member of the California Bar. She earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University, Master's in Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles, and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, Villanova Environmental Law Journal, 22 Vill. Envtl. L.J. 1, 2011, p. 7-10

Most electricity customers...past few years.

Their methodology is suspect and the plan’s winner picking will cause an explosion in the energy sector – CP avoids it by eliminating specific tech subsidies

Boskin 12 Michael J. Boskin, is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a former chairman of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers. "PICKING LOSERS, KILLING WINNERS" www.stanford.edu/~boskin/Publications/boskin%20wsj%2002%2015%202012%20industrial%20policy%20-%20long.pdf

Firms make mistakes...an idea today.

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Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide Section 1603 Cash Grants to nontaxable entities and individuals for residential solar power and require just compensation for the excess power they place on the grid.

The word “community” is inherently violent—it mandates exclusion and war against the other

Arrigo 99 (Bruce, Ph.D. Professor and Director Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy at California School of Professional Psychology, “Martial Metaphors and Medical Justice: Implications for Law, Crime, and Deviance” Journal of Political and Military Sociology Winter)

This Special Issue...community wages war.

This forecloses any possibility of justice and results in world war

Caputo 97 (John D. Caputo, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and David R Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova, 1997, “Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida” pp. 156-162)

It is clear...our breath away.

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The economy is growing but fragile – new debt creates uncertainty that pushes it over the brink

Mullaney and Davidson, USA Today correspondents, 7-23 (Tim and Paul, Will fragile U.S. economy shatter? The Tennessean, 23 July 2012, http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120723/BUSINESS01/307230035/Will-fragile-U-S-economy-shatter-, da 8-14-12)

With all the disappointing...and business confidence.

Tax credits and deductions for energy production are an expensive and controversial use of federal spending

Jorgenson 12 Samuel W. Morris University Professor of Economics, Harvard University Dale W., Senate Hearing Testimony, http://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jorgenson%20Testimony.pdf

A second alternative...incentives has shown.

Deficit spending collapses the economy.

Roe 11 Phil: congressman “Cut, cap and balance: A fight toward fiscal responsibility” The Hill May 18, 2011 http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/161973-cut-cap-and-balance-a-fight-toward-fiscal-responsibility. 

On Monday, the United States...in the long-term.

Economic downturn will cause international conflicts that culminate in nuclear war.

Lachman and Auslin 09 Desmond: fellow at AEI, Michael: scholar at AEI “The Global Economy Unravels” March 6, 2009 American Enterprise Institute http://www.aei.org/article/economics/international-economy/the-global-economy-unravels/

 What do these...a big bang."