Tournament: CST | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wake Forest BM | Judge:
A. The aff participates in a consumptive form of life that superficially addresses environmental problems while exacerbating the root causes
Princen, Associate Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, 2003
Thomas Princen, Thomas Princen is Associate Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. He is lead editor of Confronting Consumption (MIT Press, 2002), winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout award for best work in international environmental politics, 2003, Global Environmental Politics 3:1, February 2003 © 2003 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Principles for Sustainability”, JPW
Global timber harvesters are squeezing more and more fiber ... dealing directly with issues of criticality, risk export, and responsibility evasion.

B. Constant consumption must be stopped – continuation risks environmental collapse and extinction
Adams, 2007
Will Adams, writer for and creator of “One Planet One Life” blog for environmental sustainability, “Sustainability vs. Over-Consumption”, http://oneplanetonelife.com/main/index.php?option=com_contentandtask=viewandid=41andItemid=88, 3/21/2007, JPW
The new global economy, with exponential growth ... momentum, quickening its acceleration towards this line.

ALT: Refuse technical methods and government solutions in favor of a focus on “forms of life”. Prefer the ALT to the AFF and PERM; it’s a question of sequencing.
Healy, History and Philosophy Prof, ’11
Stephen Healy, March, 2011. “Post-Normal Science in Postnormal Times,” Futures, 43(2): 202–208. DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2010.10.009. ACG UKY
Why then, in the face of these significant challenges ... account of the integrative character of the primary problem.

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A) Obama’s political capital will enable him to raise the debt ceiling.
The Scotsman 1-2
“US back from the cliff edge – but still far from a deal,” http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/us-back-from-the-cliff-edge-but-still-far-from-a-deal-1-2714148 ACG CST
The Republicans are intending to seek spending ... similar to yesterday’s deal, seems likely.

B) Link. Plan unpopular – costs and safety
Clements, 1AC Author, ’12

(Tom, Nonproliferation Policy Director with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, “Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program at Savannah River Site Hit with Major Setback”, The Aiken Leader, 9-17-2012, http://aikenleader.villagesoup.com/blog/blogpost/plutonium-fuel-mox-program-at-savannah-river-site-hit-with-major-setback/897688) DCL CST

Experimental MOX made from weapons-grade plutonium ... MOX from weapons-grade plutonium.

C) Impact.
1) Economic Collapse. The debt ceiling makes the fiscal cliff look like a bunny hill.
POLITICO 1-1
Joseph J. Schatz and Patrick Reis, 1-1-13. “Enjoy the Fiscal Cliff Debate? Just Wait for the Debt Ceiling.” POLITICO. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/enjoy-the-fiscal-cliff-debate-just-wait-for-the-debt-ceiling-85649.html. ACG CST
So while popular attention ... debt there is no taking that back.”

2) Economic collapse causes nuclear war.
Merlini, Senior Fellow, Brookings, ’10
Cesare, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Apr.: “A Post-Secular World?” SURVIVAL: GLOBAL POLITICS AND STRATEGY, 53(2): 117-130, doi:10.1080/00396338.2011.571015, p. 124 CSU
Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future ... secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.

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Text: The United States federal government should remove its restrictions on use of mixed oxide fuel in commercial nuclear power generation

CP doesn’t allow production of MOX in the US – operational costs of the South Carolina facility is smaller

Plenty of MOX use now points to big MOX supply which means the US can buy from other places
World Nuclear, ‘12
World Nuclear, 05/12, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf29.html, DCL CST

MOX fuel was first used in a thermal reactor ... of MOX if required.

CP still allows the use of MOX in current plants which solves their AFF.

Also, no evidence saying commercial use is key

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The President of the United States should issue an executive order to make areas where offshore wind would have otherwise been built protected areas under National Environmental Protection Act and waive offshore wind production from the National Environmental Protection Act review. The President of the United States should clarify that the exemption will apply to all future offshore wind projects.
Net benefit is politics – categorically excluding from NEPA requires Congress but waiving does not
NANCY H. SUTLEY, 2/18/10, Chair, Council on Environmental Quality, MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES, http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/Categorical_Exclusion_Draft_NEPA_Guidance_FINAL_02182010.pdf, 

This guidance is provided to assist ... interpretation by the agencies charged with implementation of that statute and  NEPA.

Plan protects ocean areas under NEPA like requirements but exempts the wind production from them, which means we access their internal links
Plan exempts offshore wind production from NEPA which solves the AFF. Waving bans under environmental guise is precedented
CRS, ‘12
Congressional Research Service, 10/17/12, Wind Energy: Offshore Permitting, http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/R40175.pdf

The MBTA is the domestic law that implements ... for individual birds, or other compelling justification.”
90

Congress hasn’t blocked executive authority to waive
Americans for Prosperity, 7/27/12, http://americansforprosperity.org/new-jersey/afp-nj-bill-tracker/

Block DEP Waivers (ACR37/SCR59) – Attempt to ... regulations (AFP Position: NO)

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Framing terrorism as a security threat causes permanent warfare – the permutation can’t overcome their initial representations
Jarvis, 9 – Lecturer, Politics and International Relations @ Swansea University
(Lee, “The Spaces and Faces of Critical Terrorism Studies,” Security Dialogue vol. 40, no. 1, February) 

Although there may exist strategic, even normative ... emergence of a critical terrorism studies agenda. 

Security discourse causes apocalypse in the name of survival
Peter Coviello, Asst Prof of English – Bowdoin, ‘1
(Queer Frontiers, ed. Boone, author’s italics)

Perhaps. But to claim that American culture ... initiative that can scarcely be done without.

Vote neg to critique the aff’s security discourse as a prior question
Graeme Cheeseman, Snr. Lecturer @ New South Wales, and Robert Bruce, ‘96
(Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)

This goal is pursued in ways which are still unconventional ... advisors are unaware of broader intellectual debates, or resistant to them, or choose not to understand them, and why?

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Text: The United States Federal Government should enact  safety standards that curb leaks from natural gas mines, fields and pipelines and coal mines and landfills.
CP gives us 15 years of breathing room. Cuts can be done by curbing leaks from gas fields and pipelines and emissions from coal mines and landfills at low cost
Pearce, ‘12
Fred Pearce, staffwriter for New Scientist, 3/28/12, Methane cuts could delay climate change by 15 years, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328583.800-methane-cuts-could-delay-climate-change-by-15-years.html
Peter Cox at the University of Exeter, UK, was speaking at the ... of the UN Security Council to put environmental security at the heart of world diplomacy.