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The aff construction of issues creates the subhuman category. This construction of  humanizing groups Only further re-entrench the impacts of the aff
Deckha 2k10¶ Maneesha, faculty of law, university of Victoria, “it’s time to abandon the idea of human rights”, the scavenger, dec. 10

The category of the ‘subhuman’ is inherent in global gendered, racialized and economic
AND
and maintenance of the figure of the subhuman undermines anti-violence agendas. 

The Human-Non Human binary causes extinction—it divorces our relationship with the natural world and makes ecocide on a cosmic scale inevitable.
Gottlieb 94 — Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brandeis University, 1994 (“Ethics and Trauma: Levinas, Feminism, and Deep Ecology,” Crosscurrents: A Journal of Religion and Intellectual Life, Summer, Available Online at http://www.crosscurrents.org/feministecology.htm, Accessed 07-26-2011)
Here I will at least begin in agreement with Levinas. As he rejects an
AND
neither for our selves nor for the other, but for us all. 

The Alternative is to vote negative to reject the human/animal divide this rejection enables an understanding of the SPECIES-BEING. This is a better form of epistemic disobedience than the affirmative effectively solving case.
HUDSON 2K4
Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf
We are all equally reduced to mere specimens of human biology, mute and uncomprehending
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exploitation, how are we to envision the future of politics and society?

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Not using it Again for the rest of the Year. Just here for place holder if needed Just Email me to update.

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Uniqueness: Oil prices will stabilize now – prices will stick above Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries break-even levels without significant changes
Rogovaya 12’
Irina August 20 - ; writer for Oil and Gas Eurasia, Oil Price Changes: Everyone Wants Stability http://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/articles/p/164/article/1875/
According to the current base forecast for the Eurozone prepared by Oxford Economics, within
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of the cartel will not let prices fall under $100 per barrel.

Link: Alternative energy investments cause Saudi Arabia to flood the market to tank oil prices.
Morse and Richard 02’
March/April - Executive Adviser at Hess Energy Trading Company, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy and portfolio manager at Firebird Management, an investment fund active in eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. “The Battle for Energy Dominance,” Foreign Affairs 81.2, Ebsco.
A simple fact explains this conclusion: 63 percent of the world's proven oil reserves
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lost in the preceding four years, mainly to non-OPEC countries.

Oil futures are exceeded by speculation – lowering demand would set off a price collapse
Bayer 12’
7-26: Alexei Bayer is head of KAFAN FX Information Services. His monthly “Global Economy” column in Research has received an excellence award from the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants for the past six years, 2004-2009 “Pop That Bubble Policies should aim at pushing oil prices down” http://www.advisorone.com/2012/07/26/pop-that-bubble?page=3

A Soft Market Demand for oil, then, is softening because the global economy
AND
-adjusted equilibrium price range of around $20-40 per barrel.

Internal Link: High prices are key to the Russian economy and domestic stability
Schuman 12 ;
7-5: Michael - writes about Asia and global economic issues as a correspondent for TIME in Hong Kong. B.A. in Asian history and political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a master of international affairs from Columbia; “Why Vladimir Putin Needs Higher Oil Prices” http://business.time.com/2012/07/05/why-vladimir-putin-needs-higher-oil-prices/
But Vladimir Putin is not one of them. The economy that the Russian President
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growth model looks unsustainable unless oil prices remain at or above $120pb.

Impact: Russian economic collapse causes global nuclear war
David 99;
01/02 - Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, , http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19990101faessay955/steven-r-david/saving-america-from-the-coming-civilwars.html
If internal war does strike Russia, economic deterioration will be a prime cause.
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of Soviet communism, a second civil war might produce another horrific regime.

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Plan text: The 50 states and all relevant U.S. territories should _

States Solve – address energy issues and provide policy actions effectively
Carley 10 (Sanya, Graduate Fellow, The Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economic Development, UNC Chapel Hill, Energy Program Specialist, The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute, 2005-06, “Electricity Diversification, Decentralization, And Decarbonization: The Role Of U.S. State Energy Policy” 2010, https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record;jsessionid=77C109DBD786C00A749A6D1236696A50?id=uuid%3A4c318329-cbdd-4fd4-b791-90182e820062)

Have developments in the era of state energy policy innovation revealed states to be effective
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the strength—or “stretch”—of policy instruments over time.36

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1. “Resolved” before a colon reflects a legislative forum

Army Officer School ‘04
 (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http://usawocc.army.mil/IMI/wg12.htm)
The colon introduces the following:
A formal resolution, after the word "resolved:"
Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor.

2. “USFG should” means the debate is solely about a policy established by governmental means

Ericson ‘03
(Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains
AND
compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose. 

B. They claim to win the debate for reasons other than the desirability of topical action

C. You should vote negative:

Unbridled affirmation outside the game space makes research impossible and destroys dialogue in debate
Hanghoj 8
http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf
 Thorkild Hanghøj, Copenhagen, 2008 

game goals. This means that game facilitation requires a balance between focusing too
narrowly on the rules or “facts” of a game (centripetal orientation)
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dialogue as an end in itself” (Wegerif, 2006: 61).

Dialogue is the biggest impact—the process of discussion precedes any truth claim by magnifying the benefits of any discussion
Morson 4
http://www.flt.uae.ac.ma/elhirech/baktine/0521831059.pdf#page=331
Northwestern Professor,  Prof. Morson's work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers -- Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy. 

a belief in truly dialogic ideological becoming would
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What we must do is keep the conversation going.

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The affirmative’s energy production is rooted within a technological mode of thinking that utilizes energy as a form of commodification – placing nature as merely being relevant to human-centric needs that marginalizes all natural objective identity.
Beckman in 2000 says,
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Tad, Harvey Mudd College, Martin Heidegger and Environnmental Ethics, page @ http://www2.hmc.edu/~tbeckman/personal/HEIDART.HTML
Heidegger clearly saw the development of "energy resources" as symbolic of this evolutionary
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their subjective status of standing-ready for human design. (8)

This reinforces a technological drive for control and mastery of the planet, which turns all other beings into a ‘standing reserve’.  
Thiele 95
Lesie Paul: a professor of political science at the University of Florida. Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics. p. 186
Technology is the chief historical ramification of the subjectivism introduced by Western metaphysical thought.
AND
ramification and contributing condition, not the origin or case, of subjectivism. 

Metaphysical subjectivism generates a flawed ontology that views humans as the “subject” and nature as the “object”. Thus, establishing the Human-Non Human binary that causes extinction by divorcing our relationship with the natural world and making ecocide on a cosmic scale inevitable.
Gottlieb 94 — Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brandeis University, 1994 (“Ethics and Trauma: Levinas, Feminism, and Deep Ecology,” Crosscurrents: A Journal of Religion and Intellectual Life, Summer, Available Online at http://www.crosscurrents.org/feministecology.htm, Accessed 07-26-2011)
Here I will at least begin in agreement with Levinas. As he rejects an
AND
neither for our selves nor for the other, but for us all.

Alternative: Vote negative to cross the threshold to a transcendent state of mind in which we reconceptualize energy as domains of beings. Critical Ontology allows us examine the patterns of interconnectedness within nature.
Kincheloe 06
(Joe, L., “Critical Ontology and Indigenous Ways of Being: Forging a Postcolonial Curriculum”, From: Critical Ontology and Indigenous Ways of Being: Forging a Postcolonial Curriculum (in Yatta Kanu (2006) (Ed.), Curriculum as Cultural Practice: Postcolonial Imaginations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press., Page 15) BAL
As we begin to identify previously unperceived patterns in which the self is implicated,
AND
and the self and their relationship in all of the complexity such study requires

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Success in Chinese solar industry trades off with US solar development
Bradsher, New York Times Asian business Writer, 11
(Keith, September 1, “China Benefits as U.S. Solar Industry Withers,” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/business/global/us-solar-company-bankruptcies-a-boon-for-china.html, d/a 8-3-12, ads)
The bankruptcies of three American solar power companies in the last month, including Solyndra
AND
been somewhat weak in the main markets in the United States and Europe.

Solar is key to China’s economy – massive investments and restructuring now
Xinhua News, 12
(July 9, “Slowdown spurs restructuring of China's economy,” http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-07/06/c_131700158.htm, d/a 8-3-12, ads)
The amount of photovoltaic capacity installed in China will reach 21 gigawatts by 2015,
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home and abroad, focus on the Chinese government's measures to stabilize growth.

Chinese growth key to prevent CCP lashout
Shirk, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Director, 07
(Susan, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, responsible for U.S. relations with China, professor at UC-San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, “CHINA: FRAGILE SUPERPOWER,” http://atruechineserenaissance.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review.html, d/a 8-3-12, ads)
As China’s leaders well know, the greatest political risk lying ahead of them is
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because from their point of view not lashing out might endanger Party rule.”

Nuclear war
Renxing, Epoch Times Staff Writer, 05
(San, August 05, “The CCP’s Last-ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War
Hundreds of millions of deaths proposed,” http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-5/30931.html, d/a 8-3-12, ads)
Since the Party’s life is above all else, it would not be surprising if
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to cling to life. That is the main theme of the speeches.