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Base opposition prevents Obama approving Keystone now

Benson 13 Prairie Pundit March 2, 2013 Saturday 1:54 AM EST Keystone XL clears environmental hurtle BYLINE: Merv Benson, l/n, mmm/uco
NY Times: Pipeline Plan Clears Environmental Bar, State Dept. Says~[1~] A report released on Friday presented no conclusive environmental reason the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline should not be built.The delay has already been unreasonable, but this has always been a political decision for Obama and his base hates it so there is no assurance he will do the right thing for the economy and approve it.

Plan gives Obama political cover allowing him to approve keystone

McParland 13 Kelly McParland | 13/02/25 | Peter Kent to the U.S.: Your greenhouse gas policy is our greenhouse gas policy http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/25/peter-kent-to-the-u-s-your-greenhouse-gas-policy-is-our-greenhouse-gas-policy/-http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/25/peter-kent-to-the-u-s-your-greenhouse-gas-policy-is-our-greenhouse-gas-policy/, mmm/uco
Now that Obama has been elected to a second term, and has doubled down
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water, to other environmental consequences, the better off we all are."

Stopping the pipeline key to preventing run away global warming

New York Times 11 Politics Stamps Out Oil Sands Pipeline, Yet It Seems Likely to Endure By JOHN M. BRODER and DAN FROSCH Published: December 23, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/us/provision-may-halt-keystone-pipeline-but-oil-is-still-likely-to-flow.html?_r=1-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/us/provision-may-halt-keystone-pipeline-but-oil-is-still-likely-to-flow.html?_r=1
The oil sands formation in western Canada, sometimes referred to as tar sands because
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be used for the planet to come to its senses around climate change."

That causes extinction

Tickell 8 ~[Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Guardian, 8-11, "On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction", http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange~~]
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told
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the warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth

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Nuke Power DA
Nuclear power is globally expanding and is catching on in the U.S.
WNA 11 (World Nuclear Association, The Nuclear Renaissance  , August 2011, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf104.html-http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf104.html) JD
Since about 2001 there has been much talk about an imminent nuclear revival or "
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adversely changed the economics of nuclear power in places such as North America.

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Nuclear power is critical to creating jobs here at home and to maintain our economy.
NAM 08 (National Association of Manufacturers, Expanding Nuclear Capacity Will Create High-Wage Jobs, Says NAM, Jun. 17, 2008, http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/545823 )
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) said today that expanding America’s nuclear capacity
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protect our environment and create good jobs here at home," Engler concluded. 

The U.S. economy is key to the world economy.
Mead, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, 2004 (Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Policy, 4/1/04 pg. Lexis)

Similarly, in the last 60 years, as foreigners have acquired a greater value
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S. leadership. U.S. economic might is sticky power. 

Economic decline causes nuclear war
O’Donnell 9 (Sean Squad Leader in the Marine Corps Reserve and is currently a graduate student at the University of Baltimore studying law and ethics, Examiner.com, Will this recession lead to World War III?, February 26, 2009, http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-baltimore/will-this-recession-lead-to-world-war-iii-http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-baltimore/will-this-recession-lead-to-world-war-iii, MS)

One of the causes of World War I was the economic rivalry that existed between
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possibility of World War III is averted. However sometimes history repeats itself. 

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====The affirmative only makes energy production easier and thus cheaper, the logic of capitalism dictates that this only increases consumption resulting in extinction of the planet====
Foster et al 2010 (John Bellamy ~prof of sociology @ U of Oregon~, Brett Clark ~Assistant prof of sociology @ NC State U~ and Richard York ~assoc. prof of sociology @ U of Oregon~; Capitalism and the Curse of Energy Efficiency; Nov 1; http://monthlyreview.org/2010/11/01/capitalism-and-the-curse-of-energy-efficiency-http://monthlyreview.org/2010/11/01/capitalism-and-the-curse-of-energy-efficiency; kdf)

The Jevons Paradox was forgotten in the heyday of the age of petroleum during the
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equality, human development, community, and sustainability are the explicit goals.

Capitalism’s naturalization of the process of subjugation creates social exclusion on a global scale – the ultimate ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the foundations of this system’s organization principles. This makes reaching the Universal impossible.

Zizek and Daly 2004 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek, 14-6)

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gord¬ian knot of
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the principles of global liberal capitalism. This requires some care and subtlety.
For far too long, Marxism has been bedevilled by an almost fetishistic economism that
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economism can end up reinforcing a de facto economic necessity in respect of contemporary
This is not to endorse any kind of retrograde return to economism. Zizek’s point
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were simply a matter of chance and sound judgment in a neutral marketplace.
Capitalism does indeed create a space for a certain diversity, at least for the
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political boutiquism that is readily sustained by postmodern forms of consumerism and lifestyle.
Against this Zizek argues for a new universalism whose primary ethical directive is to confront
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the abject Other to that of a ’glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.

The Alternative is to withdraw from the ideology of capital. We are unsure of a blueprint for success, but our first action must be the refusal of our belief in capital. Only this can open up the space for authentic alternatives.
Johnston 2k4, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University
(Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture %26 Society, December 9.3, p. 259, 2004)
Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap in Zizek’s recent writings isn’t a major
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comforting fiction ("Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism").~