Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Texas | Judge: Jennings
Financial Incentives are Direct 1NC
A. Financial incentives are direct, indirect are fiscal incentives
Kurtz ‘02
Emile Noel Fellow, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, New York University Law School; Lecturer, Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jurgen 23 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 713
Incentives to attract investors into the host state are often linked to performance requirements by
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as they generally lack the resources needed to provide direct financial incentives. n64

“FOR” is a limiting term
Clegg, 95 - J.D., 1981 Yale Law School; the author is vice president and general counsel of the National Legal
Center for the Public Interest. (Roger, “Reclaiming The Text of The Takings Clause,” 46 S.C. L. Rev. 531,
Summer, lexis)

Even if it made no sense to limit the clause to takings "for public
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no doubt that the phrase is narrowing the scope of the Amendment. n20

B. The Violation: the plan increases indirect incentives for energy production.
C. Ground. Our interp ensures fair ground for the aff and predictable links for the neg. Direct incentives for energy production means topic literature provided DA and K links
Limits. Their interp is practically limitless
Dyson et al, 3 - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Megan, Flow: The Essentials of Environmental Flows, p. 67-68)

Understanding of the term ‘incentives’ varies and economists have produced numerous typologies. A
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these incentives within the realm of economic and fiscal policy is practically limitless.
D. T is a voter for fairness and education. Extra T dejustifies the resolution and demands a neg ballot.

SMR 1NC
Obama will win- Polls, Money and momentum
Halperin 9-10
Mark is a Columnist at Time Magazine and a Political Analyst for NBC News, “The Troubles,” http://thepage.time.com/2012/09/10/the-troubles/

The danger for the Romney campaign right now is the congealing conventional wisdom that the
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. But on the current trajectory, Romney faces more troubled days ahead.

SMR’s incredibly unpopular- Batman
Deal-Blackwell 7/23
(Deborah, works with Los Alamos, founder of Hyperion Power Generation, ““Dark Knight Rises” Batman movie does infant SMR industry no favors” http://ixpower.com/tag/small-modular-reactors/, SEH)

But, I couldn’t believe it …Holy Plot Twist Batman! I cringed when
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as at the end of every Batman movie, the dark knight rises.¶ 

Approval Rating is key, lines up perfectly with reelection
Silver ’11
Nate directs five thirty eight and is a statistician, “Approval Ratings and Reelection Odds,” http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/approval-ratings-and-re-election-odds/

Earlier this month, we posted the simple version of a finding, based on
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— and that would not have been true a couple of months ago.

China label kills relations and the economy
Roach 8-28
Stephen is a lecturer at Yale University’s School of Management and Jackson Institute for International Affairs. He is also a Senior executive with Morgan Stanley, “How Romney Could go Wrong from Day 1,” http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c74802de-f0f9-11e1-89b2-00144feabdc0.html#axzz25ue916Yz

True to his word as a candidate, a few hours after taking office as
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economic policy blunder. Bad dreams can – and have – become reality.

Economic decline causes nuclear war
Harris and Burrows, 09 –
 PhD in European History @ Cambridge and Counselor of the US National Intelligence Council AND Member of the National Intelligence Council’s Long Range Analysis Unit (Mathew J. and Jennifer, “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis,” April, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf)
Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is
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within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.

CP
Text: The United States federal government should pass the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. The United States federal government should require utilities to meet relevant U.S. and international regulations to protect grids from the effects of solar storms, mandate that transmission companies install supplemental transformer neutral ground resisters, and require utilities and regional transmission organizations to coordinate efforts to protect transformers.
Solves cyberterror

Outlook Series 3-18
A site offering breaking news coverage and analysis of major events, “Cyber Security Act of 2012,” http://www.outlookseries.com/A0993/Security/3851_Cybersecurity_Act_2012.htm

Working closely with Senate leadership, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is a joint effort
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of new technologies to secure our nation from ever-evolving cyber threats.
Changing FERC requirements solves solar storms

Cooper and Sovocal ’11
Christopher is a Smart Grid Fellow at the Institute on Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School and Benjamin is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the University of Singapore, “Not Your Father's Y2K: Preparing the North American Power Grid for the Perfect Solar Storm,” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040619011000972

Both the private and public sectors may not fully understand the level of interconnectivity of
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grid systems and those least likely to be affected during a severe storm.

 Shell
THE WORKING CLASS MUST COALESCE IN MATERIAL ACTION AGAINST FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF ENERGY PLANNING. THE AFF’S NOTION OF AGENCY UNIQUELY UNDERMINES THE MATERIALIST ANTI-CAPITALIST REVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE KEY TO SURVIVAL.
Callinicos 2k10
[Alex, Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crisis of the Liberal World, Polity, professor of European studies King’s College – London, DPhil – Oxford, p. 139-43]
There are other strong reasons to press for a break with the logic of competitive
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to rise. The most plausible explanation appeals to the logic of competition.
The problem is, yet again, one of collective action. Evi- dently
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are widened, allowing the billions of victims of capitalism finally to escape.

Text: VOTE NEGATIVE TO REJECT THE 1AC IN FAVOR OF MATERIALIST REVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AGAINST CAPITALISM.
AND, ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE NECESSITATES MATERIALIST REVOLUTIONARY DIALECTICS AGAINST CAPITALISM’S EXPLOITATION TO ENSURE SURVIVAL.
Foster 2k11
[john bellamy,  professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review, Since the Great Financial Crisis hit in 2008, Foster has been sought out by academics, activists, the media, and the general public as a result of his earlier prescient writings on the coming crisis. He has given numerous interviews, talks, and invited lectures, as well as written invited commentary, articles, and books on the subject]
In the twenty-first century it is customary to view the rise of planetary
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to the system (we can’t solve our problems by mining the moon!).
Market-based solutions to climate change, such as emissions trading, have been
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and sustainable human development; a socialism for the twenty-first century.

SMRs ensure meltdowns

Smith 11
(Gar, Journal’s Editor Emeritus, “Don’t Mini-mize the Dangers of Nuclear Power” Earth Island Journal, http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/dont_mini-mize_the_dangers_of_nuclear_power/, SEH)

The Fukushima disaster has severely hobbled the atomic industry’s hopes for a big-ticket
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the only progressive move you can make is to step back.’”
Decade  before solvency 

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ‘12
[Jeffrey Tomich, http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2012/05/10/small-problem.html ETB]

For all the hype, small reactors are still at least a decade away.
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,” Klein said. “We’re going to have to see some built.”

No impact to cyber attacks

Rid 12
(Thomas, reader in war studies at King's College London, is author of "Cyber War Will Not Take Place" and co-author of "Cyber-Weapons;” March/April, “Think Again: Cyberwar,” Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/cyberwar)

"A Digital Pearl Harbor Is Only a Matter of Time." Keep waiting.
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in doubt, the coercive power of a cyberattack would be drastically reduced.

Military going off grid now

Pacific Business News 10
(Sophie Cocke, “Barking Sands Going Off Grid” http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2010/09/barking-sands-going-off-grid.html, SEH)

Risks of disruption to foreign oil supplies, rising costs of a declining resources and
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, the bases also can feed excess energy back into Kauai’s electric grid.

DOD taking efforts to shield itself from grid outages now

GAO 9
(Government Accountability Office, “Defense Critical Infrastructure:” http://www.gao.gov/assets/300/297169.html, SEH)

DOD has taken some steps to assure the availability of its electrical ¶ power supplies
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power generators, and increasing ¶ physical security measures around electrical power facilities.
 Military bases going off grid now

Pacific Business News 10
(Sophie Cocke, “Barking Sands Going Off Grid” http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2010/09/barking-sands-going-off-grid.html, SEH)

The Pacific Missile Range Facility in Barking Sands, Kauai, aims to generate all
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efforts that have been made out here,” said base spokesman Tom Clements.
Can’t solve foreign use- too many hurdles

U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration 11
(“The Commercial Outlook for¶ U.S. Small Modular Nuclear¶ Reactors” http://www.trade.gov/publications/pdfs/the-commercial-outlook-for-us-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.pdf, SEH)

Some significant challenges to eventual SMR ¶ deployment exist. Some of those barriers relate
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be critical to the eventual deployment of U.S. ¶ SMRs.

Neg- Can’t solve nuclear use- poor economics, safety requirements, and waste issues

Domenici and Miller 7/1
(“Pete, BPC Senior Fellow ¶ Co-chair, BPC Nuclear Initiative, Warren, Co-chair, BPC Nuclear Initiative
Former Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, “Maintaining U.S. ¶ Leadership in Global ¶ Nuclear Energy Markets” http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, SEH)

Set against this considerable legacy of institutional and technological dominance, however, ¶ are
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and replaced by newer-generation resources ¶ (potentially including some nuclear replacements

SMRs aren’t economical- cheap natural gas

Forbes ‘12
[Jeff McMahon. Genoa= Paul Genoa, Senior Director of Policy Development at the Nuclear Energy Institute. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/23/small-modular-reactors-by-2022-but-no-market-for-them/ ETB]

The same summary records doubt that SMRs can compete in a market increasingly dominated by
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economics don’t work in the favor of SMRs,” according to the summary.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Concordia | Judge: 

T - Prohibit

A.  INTERPRETATION.  Restrictions prohibit, requirements govern how energy production occurs

Hayden ’05 (J.D., Penn State Dickinson School of Law, 2005)
Tim 13 Penn St. Envtl. L. Rev. 217

B. Telecommunications Act of 1996
¶ In 1996, a major piece of legislation dealing with most aspects of our
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the policy of promoting national wireless service provision in ~[*233~] mind.

And the restriction must be ON production
Dictionary.com No Date
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on?s=t**
"ON":16. (used to indicate a source or a person or thing that serves as a source or agent): a duty on imported goods; She depends on her friends for encouragement.

B. The aff reduces a condition that makes production harder—that’s NOT A RESTRICTION

Priebe ’99 (Director of Agricultural Economic Law, European Commission)
Rhinehard, Production Rights in European Agriculture p.200
The milk quota system, to quote the prime example, is a levy imposed
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is another example of this form of restriction. This ev. gender paraphrased

C.  REASONS TO PREFER.

1.  Fair Ground.  Our interp allows afs to remove any restriction that actually prohibits production—siting restrictions, ownership requirements, seasonal drilling restrictions. Their interp allows any aff that makes energy production less profitable—those are regulations or fees—not restrictions.

2.  Limits. Their interp justifies any aff that increases the size or profitability of the energy industry, exploding the size of an already large topic.

3.  Bright line. Our interp establishes a clear brightline—does the restriction prohibit energy production? If it does, it T, if it don’t, it aint.

D. Topicality is a voter for fairness and education.

At best its extra topical- gives unpredictable aff advantages- voter for fairness

2^nd off

Interpretation: Indian Country is not in the United States- foreign country
US Department of State Manual ’12
"7 Fam 1113 Not Included in the Meaning of "in the United States" http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86755.pdf

a. Before U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, the only
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authorizing individuals of particular tribes to become citizens upon ¶ application for naturalization."

Violation- TERA restrictions exist in Indian Country, not the United States.

Voter

1.  Limits- Key to prevent affs from being anywhere in the world.

2.  Education- Should learn about where United States Policy occurs.

D. Topicality is a voter for fairness and education.

Extra-topical- Plan eliminates all review, at least some lands are outside the United States

3^rd off

THE WORKING CLASS MUST COALESCE IN MATERIAL ACTION AGAINST FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF ENERGY PLANNING. THE AFF’S NOTION OF AGENCY UNIQUELY UNDERMINES THE MATERIALIST ANTI-CAPITALIST REVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE KEY TO SURVIVAL.

Callinicos 2k10
~[Alex, Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crisis of the Liberal World, Polity, professor of European studies King’s College – London, DPhil – Oxford, p. 139-43~]

There are other strong reasons to press for a break with the logic of competitive
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to rise. The most plausible explanation appeals to the logic of competition.
The problem is, yet again, one of collective action. Evi- dently
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are widened, allowing the billions of victims of capitalism finally to escape.

Text: VOTE NEGATIVE TO REJECT THE 1AC IN FAVOR OF MATERIALIST REVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AGAINST CAPITALISM.

AND, ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE NECESSITATES MATERIALIST REVOLUTIONARY DIALECTICS AGAINST CAPITALISM’S EXPLOITATION TO ENSURE SURVIVAL.

Foster 2k11

• • ~[john bellamy,  professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review, Since the Great Financial Crisis hit in 2008, Foster has been sought out by academics, activists, the media, and the general public as a result of his earlier prescient writings on the coming crisis. He has given numerous interviews, talks, and invited lectures, as well as written invited commentary, articles, and books on the subject~]

In the twenty-first century it is customary to view the rise of planetary
AND
to the system (we can’t solve our problems by mining the moon%21).
Market-based solutions to climate change, such as emissions trading, have been
AND
and sustainable human development; a socialism for the twenty-first century.

4^th off

Obama will win- top models and factors prove
Klein 9-17
Ezra is a columnist for the Washington Post and an MSNBC Political Analyst, "The Romney Campaign is in Trouble," http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/17/romney-is-behind-and-the-debates-arent-likely-to-save-him/-http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/17/romney-is-behind-and-the-debates-arent-likely-to-save-him/

First came the changes in strategy. It went from doing everything possible to assure
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crack under the pressure, then that comeback becomes that much less likely.

Environmental groups hate wind- species loss

Maxwell ’12 
Veery is a third-year law student at UC Hastings, "Wind Energy Development: Can Wind Energy Overcome Substantial Hurdles to Reach the Grid," West Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 18 W.-N.W. J. Env. L. %26 Pol’y323, lexis 

Environmental groups have also been opposed to wind development, particularly in sites inhabited by
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host of solutions to the environmental and local problems generated by wind farms.

The environmental vote will decide the election

Lehrer, 12 
(Eli, "How Mitt Romney can win the environmental vote", 6/11, Huffington Post,¶ http://rstreet.org/op-ed/how-mitt-romney-can-win-the-environmental-vote/-http://rstreet.org/op-ed/how-mitt-romney-can-win-the-environmental-vote/

Since the (few) positives in Obama’s record and the incumbency are unalterable,
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to put Romney over the top. So how can he do it?
Romney will destroy US-Russian relations – hardline %26 won’t compromise
Larison 6-27
Columnist for the American Conservative ~[Daniel Larison "U.S.-Russian Relations Would Get Much Worse Under Romney" http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/u-s-russian-relations-would-get-much-worse-under-romney/-http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/u-s-russian-relations-would-get-much-worse-under-romney/~]

Putin doesn’t actually want a "hard-line conservative in the White House."
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Russian relations will deteriorate much more than they have in the last year.
Nuclear war
ALLISON  11  
Director @ Belfer Center for Science and Int’l Affairs @ Harvard’s Kennedy School, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Robert D. Blackwill, Senior Fellow – Council on Foreign Relations   ~[Graham Allison, "10 Reasons Why Russia Still Matters", Politico — October 31 — http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=161EF282-72F9-4D48-8B9C-C5B3396CA0E6-http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=161EF282-72F9-4D48-8B9C-C5B3396CA0E6~]

That central point is that Russia matters a great deal to a U.S
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Security Council, as well as a member of the G-8 and

5^th off

CP Text: the United States federal government should establish an independent Commission that has 90 days to determine policy to Tribal Energy. The Commission should recommend The United States Federal Government should amend the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act and all relevant sections of other federal laws to remove all environmental review and comment provisions from Tribal Energy Resource Agreements. The recommendation will become law if Congress or the President does not reject the recommendation within 45 days of the report.

Establishment of independent commissions solves and avoids politics

King ’97
Anthony is a political scientist who teaches at the University of Essex and is a regular contributor to the Economist, "Running Scared," 

Another possible tactic, with many similarities to the collusion of elites, might be
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when they, at least, were not up for re-election.

Case

Threats are not socially constructed- decision makers use the most objective, rational, and accurate assessments possible- there are no bureaucratic or ideological motivations to invent threats.

Ravenal ’9 
~[Earl C. Ravenal, distinguished senior fellow in foreign policy studies @ Cato, is professor emeritus of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He is an expert on NATO, defense strategy, and the defense budget. He is the author of Designing Defense for a New World Order. What’s Empire Got to Do with It? The Derivation of America’s Foreign Policy." Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society 21.1 (2009) 21-75~]

Quite expectedly, the more doctrinaire of the non-interventionists take pains to deny
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displacement is Eland’s account of American intervention in the Korean and Vietnam wars:
After North Korea invaded, the Truman administration intervened merely for the purpose of a
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pres- tige, and perceived resolve. (Eland 2004, 64)
Of course, the motive of "reputation," to the extent that it exists
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and their ’rogue’ state sponsors without those gold- plated white elephants."
The underlying notion of "the security bureaucracies . . . looking for new enemies
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-industrial complex fat and happy." Or, in the same section:
In the nation’s capital, vested interests, such as the law enforcement bureaucracies . . . routinely take advantage of "crises"to satisfy parochial desires. Similarly, many corporations use crises to get pet projects— a.k.a. pork—funded by the government. And national security crises, because of people’s fears, are especially ripe opportunities to grab largesse. (Ibid., 182)
Thus, "bureaucratic-politics" theory, which once made several reputa-
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making among libertarian observers. As Eland (2004, 203) summarizes:
Public-choice theory argues ~[that~] the government itself can develop sepa- rate interests from its citizens. The government reflects the interests of powerful pressure groups and the interests of the bureaucracies and the bureaucrats in them. Although this problem occurs in both foreign and domestic policy, it may be more severe in foreign policy because citizens pay less attention to policies that affect them less directly.
There is, in this statement of public-choice theory, a certain ambiguity, and a certain degree of contradiction: Bureaucrats are supposedly, at the same time, subservient to societal interest groups and autonomous from society in general.
This journal has pioneered the argument that state autonomy is a likely consequence of the
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about what strategies, forces, and weapons are required for national defense.
Ironically, "public choice"—not even a species of economics, but rather
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the playing out of official roles, transcends merely personal or parochial imperatives.
My treatment of "role" differs from that of the bureaucratic-politics theorists
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empirically—to the need for a broader and generic treatment of role.
Roles (all theorists state) give rise to "expectations" of performance. My point is that virtually every governmental role, and especially national-security roles, and particularly the roles of the uniformed mili- tary, embody expectations of devotion to the "national interest"; rational- ity in the derivation of policy at every functional level; and objectivity in the treatment of parameters, especially external parameters such as "threats" and the power and capabilities of other nations.
Sub-rational models (such as "public choice") fail to take into
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and uncorrrupt, because personal cheating and even egregious aggrandizement are conspicuously discouraged.
My own direct observation suggests that defense decision-makers attempt to "frame" the structure of the problems that they try to solve on the basis of the most accurate intelligence. They make it their business to know where the threats come from. Thus, threats are not "socially constructed" (even though, of course, some values are).
A major reason for the rationality, and the objectivity, of the process is
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or to a lack of sufficient imagination to exploit opportunities for personal profit.
All lives are infinitely valuable, the only ethical option is to maximize the number saved 

Cummisky, 96
(David, professor of philosophy at Bates, Kantian Consequentialism, p. 131)

Finally, even if one grants that saving two persons with dignity cannot outweigh and
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conclusion that the more persons with dignity who are saved, the better.*

Extinction outweighs ontology

Nye ’86
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., professor of government at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former chair of the National Security Council Group on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1986, Nuclear Ethics, p. 65

The equal access approach assumes that each generation would wish to make the tradeoffs for
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generation. It is not a cause of injustice to a future generation.
YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLAN’S CONSEQUENCES – MORAL RULES SHOULD BE SUSPENDED IN CATASTROPHIC SITUATIONS

Shafer-Landau 97
(Russ, Prof of Philosophy at the U of Wisconsin, July, Ethics, Vol 104, No. 4, AD: 11/16/09) 

Even Nozick, a staunch absolutist, allows that cases of "catastrophic moral horror
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no argument for thinking that the prohibition on intentionally killing innocents is absolute.

Picking least bad practical option key 

Finnis, ’80
John Finnis, deontologist, teaches jurisprudence and constitutional Law. He has been Professor of Law %26 Legal Philosophy since 1989,1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights, pg. 111-2

The sixth requirement has obvious connections with the fifth, but introduces a new range
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or society to seek o maximize the satisfaction of those preferences or wants. 

Tournament: UMKC  | Round: 5 | Opponent: KSU | Judge: 

1^st off

Increase not extend 1NC

A.Substantial increase means at least a doubling

Mormann ’11 (Fellow, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford Law School.)
Felix 38 Ecology L.Q. 903

Innovation of the scale necessary for a timely transition to renewable sources of energy is
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smallest fraction of its gross domestic product on energy RD%26D. n191

Extending duration of incentive is not increase

Lanier ’11 (exec.Dir. Jacksonville Boys %26 Girls Club)
http://www.coj.net/departments/special-services/docs/childrens-commission/about-us/jcc-board-minutes-6-15-11-(1).aspx
The Board is asked to approve a contract extension for Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs B.O.L.D. Afterschool program from June 30 to July 29. The agency is requesting an additional month to spend down the contracted amount. This extension does not increase or decrease the contract amount.

Ground. Their interp guts uniqueness ground for all our DAs. Our Interp allows any aff that substantially increase incentives over CURRENT levels.

Limits. Their interp justifies affs extending any current incentive with a sunset provision—which is most of them.

Topical version of the aff. They can extend current incentives, but that have to add to it, not simply extend the duration its offered.

Vote neg for fairness and education.

2^nd off

Text: The United States Federal Government should terminate its Wind PTC in 2016.

Phasing out PTC solves and is politically popular

E%26E News 6-12  
"Building a bridge to zero — questions swirl around design of wind incentive phaseout," http://www.eenews.net/public/EEDaily/2012/06/12/2-http://www.eenews.net/public/EEDaily/2012/06/12/2

Most renewable energy supporters agree that the boom-and-bust cycle created by
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without relying on subsidies, in as little as four to six years.

3^rd off

Obama will win- Polls and economic rebound

Cook 9-22
Charlie is the director of the Cook Political Report and a Columnist for National Journal, "Obama’s Uptick," http://nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-cook-report-obama-s-uptick-20120920-http://nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-cook-report-obama-s-uptick-20120920

Reality is often more complicated than conventional wisdom would have you believe, a point
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. Right now, it isn’t heading in a good direction for him.

Environmental groups hate wind- species loss

Maxwell ’12 
Veery is a third-year law student at UC Hastings, "Wind Energy Development: Can Wind Energy Overcome Substantial Hurdles to Reach the Grid," West Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 18 W.-N.W. J. Env. L. %26 Pol’y323, lexis 

Environmental groups have also been opposed to wind development, particularly in sites inhabited by
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host of solutions to the environmental and local problems generated by wind farms.

The environmental vote will decide the election

Lehrer, 12 
(Eli, "How Mitt Romney can win the environmental vote", 6/11, Huffington Post,¶ http://rstreet.org/op-ed/how-mitt-romney-can-win-the-environmental-vote/-http://rstreet.org/op-ed/how-mitt-romney-can-win-the-environmental-vote/

Since the (few) positives in Obama’s record and the incumbency are unalterable,
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to put Romney over the top. So how can he do it?

China label kills relations and the economy

Roach 8-28
Stephen is a lecturer at Yale University’s School of Management and Jackson Institute for International Affairs. He is also a Senior executive with Morgan Stanley, "How Romney Could go Wrong from Day 1," http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c74802de-f0f9-11e1-89b2-00144feabdc0.html~%23axzz25ue916Yz-http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c74802de-f0f9-11e1-89b2-00144feabdc0.html

True to his word as a candidate, a few hours after taking office as
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economic policy blunder. Bad dreams can – and have – become reality.

Economic decline causes nuclear war

Harris and Burrows, 09 –
 PhD in European History @ Cambridge and Counselor of the US National Intelligence Council AND Member of the National Intelligence Council’s Long Range Analysis Unit (Mathew J. and Jennifer, "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis," April, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf-http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf)
Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is
AND
within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.

4^th off

THE WORKING CLASS MUST COALESCE IN MATERIAL ACTION AGAINST FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF ENERGY PLANNING. THE AFF’S NOTION OF AGENCY UNIQUELY UNDERMINES THE MATERIALIST ANTI-CAPITALIST REVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE KEY TO SURVIVAL.

Callinicos 2k10
~[Alex, Bonfire of Illusions: The Twin Crisis of the Liberal World, Polity, professor of European studies King’s College – London, DPhil – Oxford, p. 139-43~]
There are other strong reasons to press for a break with the logic of competitive
AND
to rise. The most plausible explanation appeals to the logic of competition.
The problem is, yet again, one of collective action. Evi- dently
AND
are widened, allowing the billions of victims of capitalism finally to escape.

Text: VOTE NEGATIVE TO REJECT THE 1AC IN FAVOR OF MATERIALIST REVOLUTIONARY KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AGAINST CAPITALISM.

AND, ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE NECESSITATES MATERIALIST REVOLUTIONARY DIALECTICS AGAINST CAPITALISM’S EXPLOITATION TO ENSURE SURVIVAL.

Foster 2k11
~[john bellamy,  professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review, Since the Great Financial Crisis hit in 2008, Foster has been sought out by academics, activists, the media, and the general public as a result of his earlier prescient writings on the coming crisis. He has given numerous interviews, talks, and invited lectures, as well as written invited commentary, articles, and books on the subject~]
In the twenty-first century it is customary to view the rise of planetary
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to the system (we can’t solve our problems by mining the moon%21).
Market-based solutions to climate change, such as emissions trading, have been
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and sustainable human development; a socialism for the twenty-first century.

Econ

New bond program to help the economy

Seeking Alpha, 9/17
~["QE3 Should Be Good For The Economy, U.S. Consumers" http://seekingalpha.com/article/867331-qe3-should-be-good-for-the-economy-u-s-consumers~~]

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered what the markets yearned for, another round of
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QE3 have the desired impact on the economy? I think it will.

Manufacturing sector dead now

AP, 9/4
~["Manufacturing Activity Declined in August" New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/business/economy/us-factory-output-shrinks.html~~]

WASHINGTON (AP) — American factory activity shrank for the third straight month in
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2009. But the sector has shown signs of weakness in recent months.

Wind affects 58,000 jobs- Congressional investigation of data proves

Linowes ’12 
Executive Director of the Industrial Wind Action Group, "Wind Energy Jobs: Are the Numbers Pulled from Thin Air," http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2012/07/wind-energy-jobs-are-the-numbers-pulled-from-thin-air/-http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2012/07/wind-energy-jobs-are-the-numbers-pulled-from-thin-air/

The American Wind Energy Association has made extending the Production Tax Credit (’PTC’)
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explain the jump in manufacturing jobs. AWEA now supports Navigant’s job numbers.

Global economy structurally resilient—data proves

Globe and Mail ’10 
(5/31/10, BRIAN MILNER, "While gloom says bear, TIGER points to bull", lexis, WEA)

Even at the height of the remarkable rebound of 2009 that brought stocks back from
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The reality, and the data, is that things are looking better."

Economic decline does not cause shooting wars

Miller 2k
(Morris, economist, adjunct professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Administration, consultant on international development issues, former Executive Director and Senior Economist at the World Bank, Winter, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 25, Iss. 4, "Poverty as a cause of wars?" p. Proquest)

The question may be reformulated. Do wars spring from a popular reaction to a
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by increasing repression (thereby using one form of violence to abort another).

Environment

Wind increases air pollution- Backup generators

Zycher 8-6
Benjamin is a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, "The Rathold Eternal," http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/should-wind-tax-credit-stay-or.php-http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/should-wind-tax-credit-stay-or.php

- Do we really need to note that the wind does not always blow?
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the perfect green trifecta, one of many such fruits of modern environmentalism.
power lines," the organization said.

Can’t solve - we would need millions of square miles of just wind turbines

Snead 2008
James Michael,  lead for agile combat support in the AFRL,  "The End Of Easy Energy And What To Do About It", November 19, 2008, http://mikesnead.net/resources/spacefaring/white_paper_the_end_of_easy_energy_and_what_to_do_about_it.pdf**

5. Terrestrial sources of sustainable dispatchable electrical power generation will fall significantly short of
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generation capacity that relies substantially on non- renewable coal and natural gas. 

The environment is indestructible

Easterbrook 95
Distinguished Fellow, Fullbright Foundation
(Gregg, A Moment on Earth pg 25) 

IN THE AFTERMATH OF EVENTS SUCH AS LOVE CANAL OR THE Exxon Valdez oil spill
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are pinpricks compared to forces of the magnitude nature is accustomed to resisting. 

Won’t cause extinction

Easterbrook ’3
(Gregg, senior fellow at The New Republic, July, Wired Magazine, "We’re All Gonna Die%21" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/doomsday.html?pg=1%26topic=%26topic_set-http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/doomsday.html?pg=1%26topic=%26topic_set=) 

If we’re talking about doomsday - the end of human civilization - many scenarios simply
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as he was, wrote Remembrance of Things Past while lying in bed.

Heg

Heg solves nothing- past two decades prove
Mearsheimer 2011 (John J., R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, The National Interest, Imperial by Design, lexis)
One year later, Charles Krauthammer emphasized in "The Unipolar Moment" that the
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heady days of the early 1990s have given way to a pronounced pessimism.

Heg collapse doesn’t cause global nuclear war – conflicts would be small and managable
Richard Haas (president of the Council on Foreign Relations, former director of policy planning for the Department of State, former vice president and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies) April 2008 "Ask the Expert: What Comes After Unipolarity?" http://www.cfr.org/publication/16063/ask_the_expert.html-http://www.cfr.org/publication/16063/ask_the_expert.html

Does a non polar world increase or reduce the chances of another world war?
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highly costly conflicts involving terrorist groups, militias, rogue states, etc. 

Their evidence overestimates the US’s ability to shape the international system – doesn’t contain conflict and wont shape the new multipolar system
Christopher Layne (Associate Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A%26M University) 2006 "The Peace of Illusions" p 176-7

A second contention advanced by proponents of American hegemony is that the United States cannot
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to disguise ulterior motives for U.S. military intervention in Eurasia.