Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: Gordon Stables
Economic decline triggers food insecurity, worse environmental destruction and transition will fail.  Growth empirically drives environmental and social improvements.
Mead, 12 --- Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College (7/28/2012, Walter Russell, “The Energy Revolution 4: Hot Planet?” http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/28/the-energy-revolution-4-hot-planet/, JMP)
Capitalism is not, Monbiot is forced to admit, a fragile system that will
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is a heretical thought, but perhaps Gaia is smarter than the greens.
Complexity is sustainable---it’s key to energy innovation and problem-solving that make even highly complex societies sustainable
Tainter 9 – Joseph A. Tainter, Global Institute of Sustainability and School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, September 9, 2009, “Human Resource Use: Timing and Implications for Sustainability,” com/node/5745
In conclusion, sustainability is not the achievement of stasis. It is not a
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perpetually addressing new or ongoing problems and securing the resources to do so.
Growth solves environmental damage and decline accelerates it---Speth is wrong
Adler 8 – Jonathan H. Adler, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Fall 2008, “Green Bridge to Nowhere,” The New Atlantis, com/publications/green-bridge-to-nowhere
According to Speth, “most environmental deterioration is a result of systemic failures of
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, that occupy the attention of Speth and so many other environmental thinkers.
Economic wave theory is wrong
Coggan, 2003
Philip, June 7, “Technically, These Methods Don’t Work” Financial Times
As Niederhoffer and Kenner write:  "The problem with technical analysis is that practitioners
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divined from lines on a graph. Life is simply not that easy.
Kuznets curve theory is true for CO2--- growth’s the only way to slow warming
Tierney 9 – John Tierney, Science Columnist for the New York Times, April 21, 2009, “Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet,” html?_r=1andpagewanted=print
Their equation was I=PAT, which means that environmental impact is equal to
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wealth and better agricultural technology, the farm fields start reverting to forestland.
Growth solves environmental damage and decline accelerates it
Adler 8 – Jonathan H. Adler, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Fall 2008, “Green Bridge to Nowhere,” The New Atlantis, com/publications/green-bridge-to-nowhere
According to Speth, “most environmental deterioration is a result of systemic failures of
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, that occupy the attention of Speth and so many other environmental thinkers.
We have already crossed the threshold of sustainability – Continued technological advancement is key to undo the damage and prevent extinction of all species
AtKisson 1 (President and CEO of The AtKisson Group, an international sustainability consultancy to business and government, “Sustainability is Dead— Long Live Sustainability” http://www.rrcap.unep.org/uneptg06/course/Robert/SustainabilityManifesto2001.pdf)

The evidence that we are beyond the limits to growth is by now overwhelming:
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down an intensely scientific and technological path, and we can never stop.
Alternatives to growth kill hundreds of millions and cause global conflict—we can’t “turn off” the economy.
Barnhizer 6 — David R. Barnhizer, Emeritus Professor at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2006 (“Waking from Sustainability's "Impossible Dream": The Decisionmaking Realities of Business and Government,” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (18 Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. 595), Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Lexis-Nexis)

The scale of social needs, including the need for expanded productive activity, has
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, place economic and social justice high on a list of priorities. n60
The imperative of economic growth applies not only to the needs and expectations of people
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social justice while avoiding and mitigating the most destructive consequences of our behavior.
Transitioning back to local economies is impossible—globalization is too entrenched.
Barnhizer 6 — David R. Barnhizer, Emeritus Professor at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2006 (“Waking from Sustainability's "Impossible Dream": The Decisionmaking Realities of Business and Government,” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (18 Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. 595), Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Lexis-Nexis)

Globalization's ability to produce wealth for a particular group simultaneously produces harms to different people
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then it will only be a respite before the pattern once again intensifies.
Warming inevitable and there’s nothing you can do about it
Solomon et al, IPCC Climate Science Co-Chair, ‘09 (Susan- member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Sciences of France, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Chairwoman of the IPCC, February 10, “Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions” PNAS, Vol 106, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812721106.full.pdf)
Over the 20th century, the atmospheric concentrations of key greenhouse gases increased due to
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magnitude that is directly linked to the peak level of carbon dioxide reached.

Tournament: Fullerton | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Low natural gas prices offset coal
Jaramillo, Assistant Research Professor - Department of Engineering and Public Policy, 12
(6/19, Implications of changing natural gas prices in the United States electricity sector for SO2, NOX and life cycle GHG emissions, iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034018/pdf/1748-9326_7_3_034018.pdf
Projections of increased domestic natural gas supply and low prices have encouraged increased natural gas
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gas prices, compared to almost 50% reductions estimated by previous LCAs.
Extinction
Hansen, Director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 09
(Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them, www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/15/james-hansen-power-plants-coal
A year ago, I wrote to Gordon Brown asking him to place a moratorium
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number that would be committed to extinction if carbon dioxide rose another 100 ppm

Tournament: Fullerton | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Natural gas price volatility crushes the chemical industry
ACC, American Chemistry Council, 05
(THE IMPACTS OF HIGH ENERGY COSTS TO THE AMERICAN CONSUMER, www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg21446/html/CHRG-109hhrg21446.htm)
The unbalanced and volatile U.S. natural gas market has had a severe
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ingredient, used to make thousands of products that consumers use every day.
The chemical industry is key to solve sustainability problems – prevents extinction
Baum, Editor-in-chief of the American Chemical Society's Chemical and Engineering News, 99
(CandE News, “Millennium Special Report,” http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/991206/7749spintro2.html)
The pace of change in today's world is truly incomprehensible. Science is advancing on
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up in real public fear of genetic manipulation and corporate control over food.

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2AC T
3) Counter Interpretation –
a) Restriction means limitation or qualification
Mattice, US District Judge, 07
(Wright v. Tenn. Bd. of Examiners in Psychology, 2004 Tenn. App. LEXIS 875)
In the instant case, the Court is required to interpret the word "restriction" as used by the parties in the Agreement. The parties apparently agree that the legal definition of restriction--"a limitation or qualification," Black's Law Dictionary 1341 (8th ed. 1999)--is a good place to start. Thus, the Court must determine whether the board's supervision requirement falls within this definition.
b) That limitation has to be legally imposed – includes regulation
Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill – 2005, the Free Dictionary, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Restrictions
restriction n. any limitation on activity, by statute, regulation or contract provision. In multi-unit real estate developments, condominium and cooperative housing projects, managed by homeowners' associations or similar organizations are usually required by state law to impose restrictions on use. Thus, the restrictions are part of the "covenants, conditions and restrictions," intended to enhance the use of common facilities and property, recorded and incorporated into the title of each owner.

Tournament: Fullerton | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
China is dominant now – REMs are key to multiple industries
Dent 9
Peter C. Dent, Vice President of Business Development at Electron Energy Corporation, August 2009, “HIGH PERFORMANCE MAGNET MATERIALS: RISKY SUPPLY CHAIN,” online: http://www.electronenergy.com/media/amp16708p27.pdf

Today, nearly 100% of the world’s rare earth metals and over 94%
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stark contrast to the total lack of NdFeB manufacturing in the United States.
REE recycling solves the impact
Recycling Today 10/3/12 (“Solvay Opens Rare Earth Metals Recycling Plants in France” http://www.recyclingtoday.com/solvay-rare-earth-recycling-plants-france.aspx)

Solvay Group, a chemical group headquartered in Brussels, has officially opened two rare
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, and we aim to become the benchmark European player in this area.”
Nuclear power isn’t a major use of REEs – no unique link
Humphries 2012 – specialist in energy policy (June 8, Marc, “Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain” http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41347.pdf)

Currently, the dominant end uses for rare earth elements in the United States are
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China. See Table 1 for selected end uses of rare earth elements.
China is cutting exports now
Berst 2012 (August 9, Jesse, “China's rare earth supply to get even rarer (and why that should worry you)” http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Business_Global/China-s-rare-earth-supply-to-get-even-rarer-and-why-that-should-worry-you-5034.html#.UGzLK03A_w4)

China's announcement Wednesday that it has started what is said to be the world's first
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were cut in 2009 and again in the first half of this year.
Status quo solves – investment in non-Chinese REE sources
CNBC 2011 (June 12, “China's Control on Rare Earths Supply to End: Quest CEO” http://www.cnbc.com/id/47776452/China_s_Control_on_Rare_Earths_Supply_to_End_Quest_CEO)

China’s dominance over rare earths supply could be challenged in the coming years as investors
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targeting 2017 as the startup date for production at the Strange Lake project.

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman | Judge: Brett Bricker
Perm – do both – solves politics
Zlotnick, law prof- RWU, 04 David M. Zlotnick, associate professor of law at the Roger Williams University School of Law, visiting professor of law at Washington College, Spring 2004, Roger Williams University Law Review, 9 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 645, p. 684
On the federal level, the time has come to listen to the voices of
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, this makes a travesty of the justice they have sworn to uphold.
The president dwarfs other actors, and will get the credit or the blame
Bruce Miroff, professor and chair of political science at the State University of New York at Albany, 2000, The Presidency and the Political System, Ed. Michael Nelson, p. 304.
Spectacle has also been fostered by the president’s rise to primacy in the American political
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Wayne and Thomas Cronin have shown, are both excessive and contradictory.7 

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Strong domestic nuclear industry key to prevent global accidents
Wallace and Williams, Senior Adviser on U.S. Nuclear Energy Project at CSIS and Nuclear Policy Analyst at Partnership for Global Security, 12
(Nuclear Energy in America:Preventing its Early Demise, csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf)
Second, setting global norms and standards for safety, security, operations, and
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.S. nuclear industry and take action to prevent its early demise.
Fukushima proves accidents getting worse – extinction
Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics at University of Ottawa, 12
(1/25, Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation, www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-a-nuclear-war-without-a-war-the-unspoken-crisis-of-worldwide-nuclear-radiation/)
The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought
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University Researchers Challenge Official Data, Global Research, April 11, 2011)

Tournament: Fullerton | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Fiscal crises will crowd out immigration regardless of Obama’s prioritization
Financial Express, 1/6 (“Budget battles threaten to cap Obama 2nd-term plan,” 1/6/2013, Factiva)
After a brutal "fiscal cliff" battle, president Barack Obama's looming budget confrontation
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reform, bolstering domestic energy production, fighting climate change and gun control.
Debt ceiling and gun control are sooner and make the link inevitable
Nakamura and Bahrampour, 1/4 (David Nakamura Tara Bahrampour, 1/4/2013, Washington Post, “Obama prioritizing immigrant issues,” Factiva)
Although Obama has pledged to push for comprehensive legislation early in his second term,
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broaden its appeal to minority groups in the wake of Obama's election victory.
Burns capital
The Nation, 12/23 (“us gun association says guns needed to stop evil,” 12/23/2012, Factiva)
The National Rifle Association's response to the Connecticut school shooting means any effort to pass
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to the Centre for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group.
Biden solves --- he can negotiate deals for the administration
Fifield, 1/5 (Anna, 1/5/2013, The Irish Times, “Down-to-earth Biden rising to challenge on Capitol Hill,” Factiva)
The vice-president will become a more important player in the second term When
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74 by then, he is in good shape and works out regularly.
The nuclear industry has congress in its pocket – funding, speeches
Union of Concerned Scientists, ’10 (February 1, “Nuclear Industry Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Over the Last Decade to Sell Public, Congress on New Reactors, New Investigation Finds” http://www.ucsusa.org/news/media_alerts/nuclear-industry-spent-millions-to-sell-congress-on-new-reactors-0343.html)
The nuclear industry claims that there is increased public support for nuclear power as a
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, mention that the NEI created the coalition and is its sole funder.
Nuclear power is popular with policymakers and the public
Todd Whitman 2012 - CASEnergy Co-Chair, Former EPA Administrator and New Jersey Governor(August 12, Christine, “Nuclear Power Garners Bipartisan Support” http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php?comments=expandall#comments)
It’s clear from the debate around the merits and drawbacks of various electricity and fuel
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source of power that leaders on both sides of the aisle can support.
SMRs have bipartisan support – recent bills prove
Wheeler 2011 (March 10, Susan, “Nuclear Power Touted in Bipartisan Bill” http://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/release_full.cfm?id=331802)
Legislation requiring the U.S. Department of Energy to work more actively with
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leadership did not bring it up for a vote by the full Senate.
Obama will have to work to get Hagel confirmed
Cillizza, 1/7 (Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake, 1/7/2013, “President Obama picks a confirmation fight. Can he win it?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/07/president-obama-picks-a-confirmation-fight-can-he-win-it/)
When President Obama formally nominates Chuck Hagel to be the next Secretary of Defense later
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New York Senator is a major player and pivot point in this fight.)\

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: Gordon Stables
Advantage two is environmental leadership
Obama’s climate legitimacy is dead – only changes to domestic energy policy can reinvigorate leadership
Herz, Senior International Climate Attorney with the Sierra Club, 12-17
12/17, Dithering In Doha: We Need To Re-Frame The Politics Of Climate, thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/17/1343391/dithering-in-doha-we-need-to-re-frame-the-politics-of-climate/?mobile=nc
Just as disappointing as the outcome in Doha was the role of the United States
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more successful in the second Obama Administration than it was in the first.
Reversing Obama’s go slow approach on new nuclear technology is necessary to establish presidential leadership on climate
Hansen, Director NASA Goddard Institute, ’11
(NASA’s Hansen Presses Obama for a Carbon Cost and Nuclear Push, dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/nasas-hansen-presses-obama-for-a-carbon-cost-and-nuclear-push/?partner=rssandemc=rss)
It would have made good sense to give energy/climate a high priority right
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prey to Democratic politics on this, rather than being a responsible leader.
Only support for nuclear power can resolve perceptions of international law illegality constraining US foreign policy
Hickey, Law Professor at Hofstra, 07
REVIVING THE NUCLEAR POWER OPTION IN THE UNITED STATES: USING DOMESTIC ENERGY LAW TO CURE TWO PERCEPTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ILLEGALITY, lawarchive.hofstra.edu/pdf/Academics/Journals/LawReview/lrv_issues_v35n02_i03.pdf
Two perceptions, right or wrong, of international law illegality on the part of
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persist to the detriment of U.S. foreign policy for decades.
Presidential leadership to address international climate concerns key to global environmental cooperation
Shepard, Natural Resources/Water Resources University Laboratory Teacher, 10
U.S. Environmental Policy and Leadership, http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/39623.aspx?p=2
The Bush administration’s failure to see the big picture in reference to global environmental change
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the beacon it needs to be with a strong message from our lawmakers.
US environmental leadership key internal link to effective environmental governance
Esty and Ivanova, Director Yale Center Environmental Policy, 08
Daniel C. Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale
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Number 2, Summer-Fall 2008, pp. 57-75
The Bush Administration’s “go-it-alone” strategy in security issues has
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international entanglements and international organizations—even those related to protecting the planet.
US environmental leadership prevents extinction – Biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, and soil erosion
Khosla, President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 09
(A new President for the United States: We have a dream, www.iucn.org/news_homepage/news_by_date/2009_news/january_2009/?2595/new-President-for-the-United-States-We-have-a-dream)
A rejuvenated America, with a renewed purpose, commitment and energy to make its
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-- and now it has become essential, an issue of planetary survival.
Global ecosystems are on the brink of collapse – we are reaching the “tipping point” of environmental degradation
Knight, ’10
Matthew, Cites the GBO and CBD: The GBO-3 is a landmark study in what is the U.N.'s International Year of Biodiversity and will play a key role in guiding the negotiations between world governments at the U.N. Biodiversity Summit in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010.  The CBD -- an international treaty designed to sustain diversity of life on Earth -- was set up at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, May 10, “U.N. report: Eco-systems at 'tipping point'”, http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/10/biodiversity.loss.report/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
The world's eco-systems are at risk of "rapid degradation and collapse"
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natural capital of around andeuro95 trillion ($121 trillion)," he said.
Outweighs any other impact
Chen, 2K
Jim, Prof of law U of Minnesota, Now Dean of Law School at Louisville “Globalization and Its Losers”, 9 Minn. J. Global Trade 157’ HeinOnline
The spread of Homo sapiens around the earth have brought about mass extinctions and related
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by Homo sapiens - in ten million years, perhaps a hundred million.