Garcia-Fontana Neg

T-Energy Production

Energy production refers to the extraction, conversion, and distribution of energy – excludes R&D

Koplow 4 (Doug Koplow is the founder of Earth Track in Cambridge, MA. He has worked on natural resource subsidy issues for 20 years, primarily in the energy sector "Subsidies to Energy Industries" Encyclopedia of Energy Vol 5 2004, www.earthtrack.net/files/Energy%20Encyclopedia,%20wv.pdf)

3. SUBSIDIES THROUGH THE FUEL CYCLE...

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...Coal mine fatalities continue at extremely high levels in many of these countries as well.

XO CP

The President of the United States should issue an executive order to (do the plan.)

XO’s solve the case and don’t link to politics.
Cooper '02(Gund Professor of Liberal Arts and first recipient of the Charles Levin award, 2002[Phillip J., “By Order of the President: The Use & Abuse of Executive Direct Action,”
University Press of Kansas]

Presidents do not use executive orders solely...

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...executive branch agencies to generate regulations.

XO’s can effectively dictate energy policy – Obama proves
Velandy ‘12 (Siddhartha M. Velandy, 11/02/12, Major in the United States Marine Corps & has a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School: National Security Journal, “The Green Arms Race: Reorienting the Discussions on Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Security,” http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Vol-3-Velandy-FINAL.pdf) BVG

The executive branch has also taken action in this area...

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...non-tactical federal vehicle fleet.

Executive Orders don’t sap political capital
Marshall and Pacelle 5 - Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University – Professor and the Chair of Political Science at Georgia Southern University (Bryan W. and Richard L. Jr., American Politics Research, Revisiting the Two Presidencies: The Strategic Use of Executive Order, p.ln)K. Harris

There are two important theoretical explanations in the literature...

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...Congress should be positively related to executive orders. 

Sequestration DA

Obama is trying to get rid of sequester
Chiles ‘13 (Nick Chiles. Feb 7, 2013. “Obama Pushing Congress to Avoid Massive ‘Sequester’ Budget Cuts.” http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/02/06/obama-tries-to-push-congress-to-avoid-massive-sequester-cuts/) TJA

With the government’s self-imposed “sequestration” cuts looming...

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...Obama said yesterday during a news conference.

Plan spends; decreased spending is the Republican leadership’s top priority.
FNM ’13 (Financial Market News, 01/25/13, “US Budget: Hill Hopes 'Regular Order' Does More Than Summitry,” https://mninews.marketnews.com/index.php/us-budget-hill-hopes-regular-order-does-more-summitry?q=content/us-budget-hill-hopes-regular-order-does-more-summitry) BVG

Put differently, can Senate Budget Committee Chairman...

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...Democratic colleagues that she is going to approach fiscal issues very differently than Ryan.
 
Decreased spending Kills military readiness
AL ‘13
[Alabama news, Leada gore, January 15, 2013, Air Force leaders say sequestration would have 'immediate and negative impact' on readiness, http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/01/air_force_leaders_say_sequestr.html]

“To be clear, these near-term actions cannot fully mitigate...

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...uncertainty is the biggest defense threat the military faces.

Causes prolif and Asian instability
FAS 09
Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Chapter 10, P. 123 05/29/09, Budget of the US Government, FY 1998 Defense Budget, “Budget of the United States Government.” 

America's armed forces remain in the Persian Gulf...

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...and can directly threaten our free and open society. 

Nuclear war
Cirincione, 2000
(Joseph, Director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Foreign Policy, “The Asian nuclear reaction chain”, Issue 118, Spring, Proquest)

The blocks would fall quickest and hardest in Asia...

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...perhaps, the first combat use of a nuclear weapon since 1945.

Cyber-Terror DA

Nuclear Plants safe from cyber-terrorism now

Dowds ’11 (Talitha Dowds, 03/25/11, Research analyst on nuclear power at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, “A New Phase of Nuclear Terrorism – Cyber Warfare,” http://csis.org/blog/new-phase-nuclear-terrorism-cyber-warfare) BVG

Nuclear terrorism, coupled with cyber warfare...

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...old that software hardly plays any role in it at all.”

New nuclear plants will be equipped with SCADA systems – SCADA systems are vulnerable to cyber-attacks

Olson ’12 (Thomas Olson, 10/24/12, Staff Writer for TribLIVe, TribLIVe.com,” Westinghouse, McAfee to equip nuclear plants with new cybersecurity systems,” http://triblive.com/business/headlines/2830771-74/systems-nuclear-westinghouse-cyber-plants-control-power-attacks-cybersecurity-digital#axzz2AiqpCYsE) BVG

Amid growing concern about cyber attacks...

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...6,000 in Western Pennsylvania, mostly at its headquarters.
 

Cyber-terrorism attack causes multiple meltdowns

Modern Survival ’10 (Ken, Modern Survival, a blog based around the threats in the 21st century and how to survive them, “Cyber Terrorism – Nuclear Power Plants – Grid,” http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/cyber-terrorism-nuclear-power-plants-grid/) BVG

The recent discovery of the “Stuxnet”...

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...our own survival plans in this rapidly changing world of uncertain times.
 

Meltdowns destroys agriculture – ensures extinction

Adams ‘11(Mike Adams, 09/13/11, Editor at NaturalNews.com, “Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns,” http://www.naturalnews.com/033564_solar_flares_nuclear_power_plants.html) BVG

Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants...

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...very, very small fraction of the total population.

Anthro K

Energy production is inherently anthropocentric

McPherson, 09(Guy McPherson, Professor of Natural Resources and Ecology at University of Arizona, 7/12/09, Resources and anthropocentrism, http://energybulletin.net/50375,) 

As I indicated in a previous post, the word “resources” is problematic...

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...Reflexively, we follow him into the grave
 
Anthropocentrism makes everything extinct
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...

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...neither for our selves nor for the other, but for us all. 

Our alternative is to endorse the thought experiment of the voluntary global suicide of humanity
Kochi and Ordan 8 (Queen’s University, Borderlands journal, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf) JFS

For some, guided by the pressure of moral conscience...

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...how hard we try to forget, suppress or repress it.

Militarism K

America's quest to possess the most powerful military in the world is an endless cycle of military
modernization. As our society becomes accustomed to the dominance of war over diplomacy, war
and military supremacy becomes the perpetual solution to all problems.

Bacevich, 2005 (Professor of Intl. Relations at Boston University, "The Normalization of War" published 2005)

The indisputable fact of global... 

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...the process of militarization has advanced.  

This mode of thinking creates a kill to save mentality that justifies the worst atrocities complying with this will lead to extinction. Only a nonviolent approach can solve

Santos 03, (Boaventura, Direct of Social Studies @ the University of Coimbra 2003,"Collective Suicide"http://www.ces.uc.pt/opiniao/bss/072en.php) CM

According to Franz Hinkelammert...

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...axis of evil: neoliberalism plus war.

The alternative is a rejection of the system of militarism and violence inherent in the affirmative plan, in favor of an ethic of personal responsibility and nonviolence. 

Kappeler 95 (Susanne, Associate Prof @ Al-Akhawayn University, The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behavior, pg. 9-11) CM

War does not suddenly break out in a peaceful society...

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...according to the structures and the values of war and violence.