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Inherency

Indigenous peoples want to develop renewable energy but lack financial resources

Kronk, Law Prof Texas Tech, 12

Elizabeth Ann, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform,” 29 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 811, Spring [JSN] [Language edited – Indigenized]

Mirroring this desire, many tribes are also becoming interested in energy development opportunities:

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between the United States and Indian tribes sometime makes this leasing process cumbersome.

Indigenous people can't access financial incentives for renewables because they're tax exempt – blocks them from investing

Miskwish, president Laguna Resource Services Inc, 10
Michael Connolly, Laguna Resource Services Inc is an environmental consulting firm and a principal with High Pass Energy, Inc. He served 17 years as a councilman for the Campo Band of Kumeyaay including as tribal treasurer, May 2010, “CAPTURING THE FULL BENEFIT OF ON-RESERVATION RENEWABLE ENERGY,”, 7 American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, NATIVE AM. RESOURCES COMM. NEWSLETTER 3, [DLP ACG PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

This resistance to passive development runs headlong into the federal energy incentive programs. Since

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for over a decade before realizing a substantial return may be politically unfeasible.

Advantage 1 – Self-Determination

Financial incentives disproportionately reward non-tribal businesses

UConn Law Review, April 2012

Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

What is most critical to the creation of alternative energy projects, however, is

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too heavily on land-use intensive generation facilities, like biopower.137

Indigenous people can't access electricity now and only get it by paying exorbitant prices to exploitative developers from outside the community

National Wildlife Federation 10

March 23, 2010, “The New Energy Future in Indian Country: Confronting Climate Change, Creating Jobs, and Conserving Nations,” Confronting Global Warming Report, released in collaboration with National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Rights Fund, and the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

On average, Tribal [indigenous] households pay significantly more in home energy expenses

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tribes meet their energy demands and sustain their natural resources for future generations.

Current structure of financial incentives blocks indigenous peoples from benefitting from renewable energy and allows corporate developers to continue colonial exploitation

Miskwish, president Laguna Resource Services Inc, 10
Michael Connolly, Laguna Resource Services Inc is an environmental consulting firm and a principal with High Pass Energy, Inc. He served 17 years as a councilman for the Campo Band of Kumeyaay including as tribal treasurer, May 2010, “CAPTURING THE FULL BENEFIT OF ON-RESERVATION RENEWABLE ENERGY,”, 7 American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, NATIVE AM. RESOURCES COMM. NEWSLETTER 3, [DLP ACG PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

A 200 megawatt wind energy facility can cost $460,000,000 in

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owners, and fail to reinvest in the long-term tribal economy.

Indigenous peoples get marginal earnings and shoulder heavy costs

Miskwish, president Laguna Resource Services Inc, 10
Michael Connolly, Laguna Resource Services Inc is an environmental consulting firm and a principal with High Pass Energy, Inc. He served 17 years as a councilman for the Campo Band of Kumeyaay including as tribal treasurer, May 2010, “CAPTURING THE FULL BENEFIT OF ON-RESERVATION RENEWABLE ENERGY,”, 7 American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, NATIVE AM. RESOURCES COMM. NEWSLETTER 3, [DLP ACG PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

A passive royalty return to a Native nation of 5 percent would amount to $

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not be seen as an excuse to single out Native communities for plunder.

Protecting indigenous self-determination is a moral imperative. It comes before all other impacts.

Dean B. Suagee, Director, First Nations Environmental Law Program, Vermont Law School, ‘92

enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, “Self-Determination For Indigenous Peoples At The Dawn Of The Solar Age”, Spring and Summer 1992, 25 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 671, Lexis [JSN] [Language edited – Indigenized]

All over the world, indigenous peoples are fighting for their lives and for their

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are entitled to human rights under international law as a matter of principle.

Absent a positive U.S. model, indigenous peoples around the world face systematic extermination.

Morris Prof @ Colorado, 99

Glenn, Professor of the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Policy at the University of Colorado, 199, Native American Sovereignty, p. 324-5[Language edited – Indigenized]

More important, the purpose here is to indicate that through the application of contemporary

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extension of such applications to indigenous peoples in other parts of the planet.

Loss of social diversity will cause planetary destruction

Rich, winner of the UN Global 500 Award for Environmental Achievement, 94

Bruce Rich, attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council, has worked for the US Agency for International Development, UN Environment Program, World Resources Institute, US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, and the world bank, awarded the UN Global 500 Award for Environmental Achievement, 1994, “Mortgaging the Earth”

The problem lies in pursuing freedom through a process that destroys its possibility. Economic

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and adaptation, rather than to the chimera of universal prediction and control.

Renewable energy development controlled by indigenous peoples allows for self-determination through energy independence

UConn Law Review, 12

Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

American Indian tribes in the United States and First Nations in Canada control vast renewable

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future holds for investors, governments, and the tribes and First Nations.

Economic self sufficiency key to self-determination

Alfred, Director Indigenous Governance Program @ Victoria, 99

Taiaiake Alfred, Director, Indigenous Governance Pogram, Victoria, 99, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto, p. 136-137[Language edited – Indigenized]

3. Economic self-sufficiency. Meaningful progress towards self-determination can never

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and increase their ability to contribute to the general development of the community.

Development of renewable energy allows indigenous peoples to attain energy independence and sell energy back to state

UConn Law Review, April 2012

Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

VI. GOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES AND FUNDING OPTIONS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS ON RESERVES AND RESERVATIONS

As described above, all tribal lands are in possession of at least some renewable

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to additional scrutiny to ensure that there is equality in the bargaining power.

Control over renewable energy development is key to self-determination

Arizona Law Review ‘10

Bethany C. Sullivan, J.D. Candidate, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. “NOTE: Changing Winds: Reconfiguring the Legal Framework for Renewable-Energy Development in Indian Country,” 52 Ariz. L. Rev. 823, Fall [JSN] [Language edited – Indigenized]

Improving tribal ability to develop renewable energy would not only alleviate some of these economic

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energy industry, Congress is in the optimal position to spearhead this development.

Investment in renewable energy improves standard of living, creates jobs, raises revenue, and addresses rural electrification problems

UConn Law Review, April 2012

Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

IV. THE POTENTIAL FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY ON RESERVES AND RESERVATIONS

Given the vast area that reserves and reservations cover, the natural geography available to

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be performed before undertaking any of the renewable energy projects suggested here.45

Energy development helps attain self-determination and generate revenue

MacCourt, Chair Indian Law Practice, 10

June 2010, “Renewable Energy Development in Indian Country: A Handbook for Tribes,” Douglas C., Ater Wynne LLP: Attorneys at Law, A project for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

In addition to the significant tribal control of land and resources in the U.

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one way tribes are creating the infrastructure and capacity to achieve economic independence.

Nation owned energy will increase infrastructure, and economic growth while providing cheaper electricity and jobs

National Wildlife Federation 10

March 23, 2010, “The New Energy Future in Indian Country: Confronting Climate Change, Creating Jobs, and Conserving Nations,” Confronting Global Warming Report, released in collaboration with National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Rights Fund, and the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

On average, Tribal households pay significantly more in home energy expenses than other Americans

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tribes meet their energy demands and sustain their natural resources for future generations.

PV ideal for reservations – power lines cant access and otherwise dependent on dirty fuels

UConn Law Review, April 2012

Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” [DLP PRE]

Photovoltaic solar power systems, which convert sunlight directly into electricity through solar cells,

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producing a profitable generation of energy is extremely dependent on the weather.59

Wind is efficient for indigenous peoples

National Wildlife Federation 10

March 23, 2010, “The New Energy Future in Indian Country: Confronting Climate Change, Creating Jobs, and Conserving Nations,” Confronting Global Warming Report, released in collaboration with National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Rights Fund, and the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

Turbines harness the wind’s kinetic energy and yield clean and inexhaustible power. Wind is

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of a home wind system to be around $32,000.6

Advantage 2 – Warming

Anthropogenic warming causes extinction

James Hansen, NASA space studies director, 5/9/12, Game Over for the Climate, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=2andpartner=rssnytandemc=rss [DCL PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was

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any longer to avoid the worst and be judged immoral by coming generations.

Coupled models and RCP studies show that sharp emissions cuts would slow sea levels enough for adaptation strategies

Meehl et al., National Center for Atmospheric Research, ‘12

Gerald A. Meehl, Aixue Hu, Claudia Tebaldi, Julie M. Arblaster, Warren M. Washington, Haiyan Teng, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Toby Ault, Warren G. Strand and James B. White III, National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307, USA Gerald A. Meehl, Aixue Hu, Julie M. Arblaster, Warren M. Washington, Haiyan Teng, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Toby Ault, Warren G. Strand and James B. White III Climate Central, One Palmer Square, Suite 330, Princeton, New Jersey 08542, USA Claudia Tebaldi Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Bureau of Meteorology, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne 3001, Australia Julie M. Arblaster Relative outcomes of climate change mitigation related to global temperature versus sea-level rise, Nature Climate Change 2, 576–580 (2012), 7/1/12, http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n8/full/nclimate1529.html#/affil-auth, DOI: doi:10.1038/nclimate1529 [DCL PRE]

There is a common perception that, if human societies make the significant adjustments necessary

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down, and this would buy time for adaptation measures to be adopted.

Sea level rise bad

CO2 causes ocean acidification

Williamson and Turley, Natural Environment Research Council and Plymouth Marine Lab, ‘12

Phillip Williamson1,2,* and Carol Turley3, 1School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

2Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon SN2 1EU, UK

3Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK, Sept 2012, http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1974/4317.full, DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0167 [DCL PRE]

Model-based calculations indicate that, since the industrial revolution (approx. 1800

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, pollutants, food-web structure and local/regional circulation changes.

CO2 devastate marine biodiversity by the end of the century

Munday et al., Australian Research Council Centre of Coral Reef Studies, ‘10

Philip L. Mundaya,1, Danielle L. Dixsona, Mark I. McCormicka, Mark Meekanb, Maud C. O. Ferraric, and Douglas P. Chiversd

aAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia;

bAustralian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia;

cDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and

dDepartment of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada S7N 5E2

July 2010, http://www.pnas.org/content/107/29/12930.full, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004519107 [JPW PRE]

Our results show that CO2 concentrations predicted to occur in the ocean by the end

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by altering individual behavior and increasing mortality at critical life-history transitions.

Ocean biodiversity key to solve extinction

Craig, Associate Prof Law, Indiana U School Law, 2003

(McGeorge Law Review, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Lexis)

Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments for conserving marine ecosystems also exist, just as they

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we kill ourselves, and we will take most of the biosphere with us

Indigenous lands in the US hold vast renewable energy potential.

UConn Law Review 12

Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor, Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA” [ACG PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

American Indian tribes in the United States and First Nations in Canada control vast renewable

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resources by American Indian tribes and First Nations is still in its infancy.

Demonstration of effective climate change methods by indigenous peoples serves as a global model that can avoid the worst climate change scenarios

Brittain et al, Center Manager at CMEW, 2011

Anna Brittain, Bachelors in Polisci and Environmental Studies from Williams, worked with Eurpean Director of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, worked with TRAFFIC providing research and writing assistance for a coral trade analysis report, MS in environmental science and management from the Bren School at UC Santa Barbra, Center Manager at the Center for Management of Ecological Wealth, Sheena Evans, BS in Environemnetal Science from University of Denver, Performing Arts Manager for UCSB Arts and Lectures Program, Amber Giroux, Bachelors in Biology and Environmental Studies from Whitman college, Becca Hammargren, bachelors in Political Science and Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College, worked as AmeriCorps outreach coordinator in the Sierra Nevada AmeriCorps Partnership, worked as community organizer in southwest Montana, works in Planning and Strategies Department at Southern Carolina Edison, Brock Treece, BA in Philosophy from Hillsdale College, Amy Willis, BA in Geography/Environmental Studies from UCLA, worked for the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, info on people from http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~chumash/about%20us.html, adviser = Hunter Lenihan, prof in Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, “Climate Action on Tribal Lands: A Community Based Approach,” [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has recognized this dilemma, and is taking

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provided a potential framework for collaboration amongst all tribal operations and governing bodies.

We have an ethical imperative to try to address climate change – lacking incentives, only adopting an ethical framework that supports mitigating human contributions to climate change and redressing environmental justice issues regardless of direct solvency can mobilize global support against emissions

Krakoff, Associate Dean of Research Colorado Law School, 8

Sarah, also Law Professor at Colorado Law School, “American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World,” Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Colorodo Law, 85 Den., U.L. Rev. 865 (2008), [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

Yet as important as it is to highlight its environmental justice aspects, global warming’s

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we navigate this new terrain is that embraced by many American Indian tribes.

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Plan

Plan: The United States Federal Government should offer a cash grant equal to 30% of the cost of wind or solar facilities for projects owned by a corporation or government of Indigenous Peoples in the United States or any partnership of which a corporation or government of Indigenous Peoples in the United States is a partner or holder of equity interest that would otherwise qualify for an Investment Tax Credit or a Production Tax Credit for a wind or solar project.

Indigenous peoples comprise people the United States government refers to as Native American or American Indians.

Solvency

Grants and accelerated depreciation eliminate the need for tax credits – allow nations to invest in and control projects

MacCourt, Chair Indian Law Practice, 10

June 2010, “Renewable Energy Development in Indian Country: A Handbook for Tribes,” Douglas C., Ater Wynne LLP: Attorneys at Law, A project for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC [DLP PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 permits projects that would

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-exempt party own its interest in the Project through a taxable corporation.

Grants effectively substitute for tax credits

Miskwish, president Laguna Resource Services Inc, 10
Michael Connolly, Laguna Resource Services Inc is an environmental consulting firm and a principal with High Pass Energy, Inc. He served 17 years as a councilman for the Campo Band of Kumeyaay including as tribal treasurer, May 2010, “CAPTURING THE FULL BENEFIT OF ON-RESERVATION RENEWABLE ENERGY,”, 7 American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, NATIVE AM. RESOURCES COMM. NEWSLETTER 3, [DLP ACG PRE] [Language edited – Indigenized]

Tribal economic development has long been hampered by the infringements of state tax policies onto

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as clearly unfair and regressive as in the commercial wind/ renewable energy sector

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge: Shree Awsare
Refusal to endorse their use of the terms "Indian," "American Indian," and "Native American" to identify the Indigenous Peoples of this land – linguistic reframing is key to solve dehumanization and colonial relationships
Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, a citizen of the Sahnish (Arikara) and Hidatsa First Nations, is Assistant Professor and Director of the Office for the Study of Indigenous Social and Cultural Justice in the School of Social Welfare, University of Kansas, (1999). Indian, American Indian, and Native  Americas: Counterfeit Identities. Winds of Change: A Magazine for American Indian Education and Opportunity, (14), 1. Jack D. Forbes is professor emeritus and former chair of Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis, where he has served since 1969. He is of Powhatan-Renápe , Delaware-Lenápe and other background. http://aistm.org/yellowbirdessay.htm 

In our cultural renaissance there are …  long by Europeans and European Americans.

Failure to reject linguistic imperialism results in cultural genocide
Cornel Pewewardy, “Renaming Ourselves On Our Own Terms: Race, Tribal Nations, and Representation in Education” Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, 1(1), Spring 2000 http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/pewe/writing/Rename.html, Chomanche-Kiowa, assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Leadership, School of Education, University of Kansas

Like other forms of social  …  by divide-and-conquer tactics.

Naming and language is power
Jack D. Forbes, April 29th, 1996, “The Colonialism of Names” http://nas.ucdavis.edu/jack-d-forbes/1996/04/29/the-colonialism-of-names/

Many non-Native scholars and  …  of one’s own destiny.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dartmouth | Judge: Shree Awsare
Perm solves – federal grants infuses top-down and bottom-up Indigenous people involvement
Monani, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, 1/10/12
Miranda J. Brady a and Salma Monani b, 1/10/12, Wind power! Marketing renewable¶ energy on tribal lands and the struggle¶ for just sustainability¶ a School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University,¶ 322 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON,¶ Canada, K1S 5B6¶ b Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, Campus Box¶ 2455, Science Center, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA,¶ 17325-1400, USA DCL PRE

As discussed earlier, NativeEnergy promotes  … difficult to know the nuances involved.16

   . Alt doesn’t solve – Transition wars empirically proven
Perry Anderson, Professor of Sociology at UCLA, Marxist Scholar, ’84
(In the tracks of historical materialism, p. 102-103)

That background also indicates, however, what is essentially missing from his work. How are we to get from where we are today to where he point us to tomorrow? …, capitalist environment—as this work does—is to locate it in thin air

   . Status quo capitalism manifests itself in a Hobson’s choice for Tribal communities – it punishes them for pursuing self-determination
Monani, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, 1/10/12
Miranda J. Brady a and Salma Monani b, 1/10/12, Wind power! Marketing renewable¶ energy on tribal lands and the struggle¶ for just sustainability¶ a School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University,¶ 322 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON,¶ Canada, K1S 5B6¶ b Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, Campus Box¶ 2455, Science Center, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA,¶ 17325-1400, USA DCL PRE

Economics, American  … struggles have also been those of cultural identity.

b. That masks capitalistic violence which means we internal link to their impacts
Monani, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, 1/10/12
Miranda J. Brady a and Salma Monani b, 1/10/12, Wind power! Marketing renewable¶ energy on tribal lands and the struggle¶ for just sustainability¶ a School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University,¶ 322 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON,¶ Canada, K1S 5B6¶ b Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, Campus Box¶ 2455, Science Center, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA,¶ 17325-1400, USA DCL PRE

Archetypes and identity: … Euro-American systems of economic
expansion.

c. Technological progress on Tribal lands ousts the worst forms of capitalism
Monani, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, 1/10/12
Miranda J. Brady a and Salma Monani b, 1/10/12, Wind power! Marketing renewable¶ energy on tribal lands and the struggle¶ for just sustainability¶ a School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University,¶ 322 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON,¶ Canada, K1S 5B6¶ b Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, Campus Box¶ 2455, Science Center, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA,¶ 17325-1400, USA DCL PRE

What is immediately clear from our  … meeting growing
demand.

The Western ideologies of capitalism and materialism propagated by the federal government have assaulted traditional indigenous views of nature
Robyn, Ass. Prof. Criminal Justice Dept @ North Arizona U, 02
Linda Robyn, the assistant professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Northern Arizona University, 2002. “Indigenous Knowledge and Technology: Creating Environmental Justice in the Twenty-First Century”. The American Indian Quarterly, 26.2 (2002), p. 203. DDI
The contrasting views of the  … discounted or ignored as in times past.

Tribal autonomy over investment, and thus, marketing, will solve the icon of the Noble Savage
Monani, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, 1/10/12
Miranda J. Brady a and Salma Monani b, 1/10/12, Wind power! Marketing renewable¶ energy on tribal lands and the struggle¶ for just sustainability¶ a School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University,¶ 322 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON,¶ Canada, K1S 5B6¶ b Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, Campus Box¶ 2455, Science Center, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA,¶ 17325-1400, USA DCL PRE

Within this collaborative but ultimately  … up with the ideals of just
sustainability.
Plan engages ‘just sustainability,’ which solves
Monani, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, 1/10/12
Miranda J. Brady a and Salma Monani b, 1/10/12, Wind power! Marketing renewable¶ energy on tribal lands and the struggle¶ for just sustainability¶ a School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University,¶ 322 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON,¶ Canada, K1S 5B6¶ b Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, Campus Box¶ 2455, Science Center, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA,¶ 17325-1400, USA DCL PRE

Thus, critics like Agyeman argue for a  …  in which these projects
are modelled.

Empirics prove no transition and cap solves war – countries err towards free markets in times of crisis
Zakaria, PhD Poli Sci @ Harvard, Editor of Newsweek, 12/12/’9
(Fareed, “The Secrets of Stability,” Newsweek, http://www.newsweek.com/id/226425)

Beyond all this, though, I believe  …  throughout the West.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: Michigan AP | Judge:
Integrating wind power doesn’t lead to less reliability – means no increase in emissions
Kling et.al, 2011
8-26-2011, Wil Kling, M.Sc. degree in ¶ electrical engineering from the Eindhoven ¶ University of Technology, full Professor and chair of Electrical Power Systems group at the ¶ Eindhoven University of Technology. He is leading research programs ¶ on distributed generation, integration of wind power, network concepts and reliability issues, Lennart Soder, Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Istvan Erlich, Professor and head of the Institute of Electrical Power ¶ Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Poul Sorensen, Michael Power, Jorge Hidalgo, Barry Rawn
Integrating wind power in the ... valuable when risk is higher.

77 reservations can support viable large scale wind now
National Wildlife Federation 10
March 23, 2010, “The New Energy Future in Indian Country: Confronting Climate Change, Creating Jobs, and Conserving Nations,” Confronting Global Warming Report, released in collaboration with National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Rights Fund, and the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, DLP PRE
TRIBAL OPPORTUNITY
Many Tribal lands, ... to work on Indigenous lands

1. No lashout – The regime knows it would be suicide and PLA won’t support it
   Bruce Gilley 04, former contributing editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review, M.A. Oxford, 2004 China’s Democratic Future, p. 114

Yet the risks, even to a dying ... confrontation would not make sense.

2. No risk of Chinese political or economic disintegration – Many reasons.
William T. Pendley 01, China scholar, review of “Is China Unstable,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1. Feb., 2001

One of the major strengths of ... though untested, has available both incentives and repressive measures.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: Michigan AP | Judge:
Their impacts are 80 years out of date.
The Economist 12-10-11
“Lessons of the 1930s: There could be trouble ahead,” http://www.economist.com/node/21541388 ACG CST
WHERE THIS PATH LEADS
On the present course, conditions ... is more firmly entrenched.

Risk of major war nonexistent –2 of the 4 were directly caused by US military intervention based on security logic
Zenko and Cohen, CFR, ‘12
Zenko and Cohen, Fellow at CFR and former Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, 3/14/12
Micah Zenko, fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, previously worked at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, and State Department`s Office for Policy Planning, and Michael A. Cohen, former Co-Director at the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative, member of the New America Foundation, former speechwriter for US Representative to the UN Bill Richardson and Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat, has worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and foreign policy magazine, serves on the board of the National Security Network, Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, “Clear and Present Safety,” http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/clear-and-present-safety DLP NAT

The United States, along with  ... threat “as a certainty in terms of our response.” 

Securitized knowledge production informs policy – this becomes a feedback loop where military action becomes the solution to all problems, making their impacts inevitable
Zenko and Cohen, CFR, ‘12
Zenko and Cohen, Fellow at CFR and former Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, 3/14/12
Micah Zenko, fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, previously worked at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, and State Department`s Office for Policy Planning, and Michael A. Cohen, former Co-Director at the Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative, member of the New America Foundation, former speechwriter for US Representative to the UN Bill Richardson and Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat, has worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and foreign policy magazine, serves on the board of the National Security Network, Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, “Clear and Present Safety,” http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/clear-and-present-safety [DLP NAT]

Within the foreign policy elite, there exists ... a certainty in terms of our response.” 

Sea level rise collapses econ
Hallegatte, Migration and Global Environmental Change, ‘11
Stéphane Hallegatte, Migration and Global Environmental Change, SR17: The economic growth impact of sea-level rise, Sustainable Development Network, the World Bank Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, Météo-France, October 2011, commissioned as part of the UK Government’s Foresight Project, Migration and Global Environmental Change

5. Conclusion
The growth literature identifies ... that may affect significantly world economies.

Coupled models and RCP studies show that sharp emissions cuts would slow sea levels enough for adaptation strategies
Meehl et al., National Center for Atmospheric Research, ‘12
Gerald A. Meehl,  Aixue Hu,  Claudia Tebaldi,  Julie M. Arblaster,  Warren M. Washington,  Haiyan Teng,  Benjamin M. Sanderson,  Toby Ault,  Warren G. Strand  and James B. White III,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307, USA
Gerald A. Meehl, Aixue Hu, Julie M. Arblaster, Warren M. Washington, Haiyan Teng, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Toby Ault, Warren G. Strand and James B. White III
Climate Central, One Palmer Square, Suite 330, Princeton, New Jersey 08542, USA
Claudia Tebaldi
Center for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Bureau of Meteorology, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne 3001, Australia
Julie M. Arblaster
Relative outcomes of climate change mitigation related to global temperature versus sea-level rise, Nature Climate Change 2, 576–580 (2012), 7/1/12, http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n8/full/nclimate1529.html#/affil-auth, DOI: doi:10.1038/nclimate1529  DCL PRE
There is a common ... time for adaptation measures to be adopted.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: Michigan AP | Judge:
Hearth Act just passed, non uniques the DA and plan popular
NCAI 7/18
2012, National Congress of American Indians, “NCAI Praises Passage of HEARTH Act, Tribal Self-Determination in Land Leasing Bill Passes House and Senate Unanimously; President Obama to Sign Legislation” DLP GSU
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday ... and many sponsors on both sides of the aisle.”

Romney will win - multiple reasons.
Annenberg Digital News 9-16
2012. Tyler Talgo. “Why Romney Will Win The Election.” http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/09/why-romney-will-win-election
So, assuming that all else is equal, ... stamp recipients than jobs.

Energy policy not key to election
Becker, Exec Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project, 8/6/12
Bill, former central regional director for the US Department of Energy, “On Climate Change, Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained,” 8/6/12, The Energy Collective, http://theenergycollective.com/josephromm/99976/climate-change-nothing-ventured-nothing-gained, DLP PRE
Among political insiders ... platforms and the next president’s agenda.

Indigenous Peoples popular
Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law, ‘12
“Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform,” 29 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 811, Spring JSN

Recognizing the potential key ... role in regional and national energy planning." n19

TTCs for Natives has bipartisan support
Shahinian, Graduate Mich Law, 8
Shahinian 8 (Mark, J.D. and M.S. in Environment and Natural Resources from University of Michigan, “SPECIAL FEATURE: THE TAX MAN COMETH NOT: HOW THE NON-TRANSFERABILITY OF TAX CREDITS HARMS INDIAN TRIBES”, 32 Am. Indian L. Rev. 267, Lexis, og)

Tradable tax credits are ... development, and increasing tribal sovereignty.

Tax credits popular - bipartisan and national support
Sotes 7/16/12
Sotes 7/16 /12 (Aitor, chief executive officer of Ingeteam (wind energy firm), “Renew wind credit”, JS Online, http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/renew-wind-tax-credit-vg63muk-162655796.html, Acc: 7/26/12, og)

The primary federal tax incentive ... tax credit with their representatives in Washington.

Romney won’t attack Iran – destroys his domestic agenda
Frum, contributor at NewsWeek and CNN, 8-30-2012
David, “Why Romney Won’t Fight Iran”, http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/08/30/sheldon-adelsons-war.html (JW PRE)
But leave aside the question ... avoid the George W. Bush path.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 7 | Opponent: Harvard | Judge:
Sea level rise collapses econ
Hallegatte, Migration and Global Environmental Change, ‘11
Stéphane Hallegatte, Migration and Global Environmental Change, SR17: The economic growth impact of sea-level rise, Sustainable Development Network, the World Bank Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, Météo-France, October 2011, commissioned as part of the UK Government’s Foresight Project, Migration and Global Environmental Change

5. Conclusion
The growth literature identifies ... affect significantly world economies.

No deal on cuts AND Congress left Washington
CNN, 9/21/12, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/21/congress-leaves-with-no-real-progress-on-fiscal-cliff/comment-page-1/ [DCL GSU]

Congress leaves with no real progress on fiscal cliff
Posted by
CNN Senior ... back into a recession.

No hope of compromise
The Hill, 6-23-2012
Jeremy Herb, staff writer, “Pessimism growing on deal to avert deep cuts to Pentagon spending”, http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/budget-appropriations/234405-pessimism-growing-on-deal-to-avert-pentagon-cuts (JW GSU)
Lawmakers are struggling to ...  one that Democrats oppose because of deeper cuts to non-defense discretionary spending.¶ 

HEARTH act proves bipart support for indigenous peoples energy development
NCAI 7/18
2012, National Congress of American Indians, “NCAI Praises Passage of HEARTH Act, Tribal Self-Determination in Land Leasing Bill Passes House and Senate Unanimously; President Obama to Sign Legislation” DLP GSU
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday ... support and many sponsors on both sides of the aisle.”

TTCs for Natives has bipartisan support – revenue neutral and reduces tribal dependency

Shahinian, Graduate Mich Law, 8
Shahinian 8 (Mark, J.D. and M.S. in Environment and Natural Resources from University of Michigan, “SPECIAL FEATURE: THE TAX MAN COMETH NOT: HOW THE NON-TRANSFERABILITY OF TAX CREDITS HARMS INDIAN TRIBES”, 32 Am. Indian L. Rev. 267, Lexis, og)

Tradable tax credits are ... tribal sovereignty.

Politically popular

Elizabeth Ann Kronk, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law, ‘12
“Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform,” 29 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 811, Spring JSN

Recognizing the potential ... and national energy planning." n19

Passed policies give Obama capital – makes him seem strong and rallies his base
Robert Creamer is a long-time political organizer and strategist, partner in Democracy Partners and a Senior Strategist for Americans United for Change. “Why GOP Collapse on the Payroll Tax Could Be a Turning Point Moment,” Huffington Post, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/gop-payroll-tax_b_1167491.html
In the end, Republican ... more likely that they will be wrong.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: Michigan AP | Judge:
Inherency
Indigenous peoples want to develop renewable energy but lack financial resources
Kronk, Law Prof Texas Tech, 12
Elizabeth Ann, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law, “Tribal Energy Resource Agreements: The Unintended "Great Mischief for Indian Energy Development" and the Resulting Need for Reform,” 29 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 811, Spring JSN Language edited – Indigenized

Mirroring this desire, many tribes … Indian tribes sometime makes this leasing process cumbersome.
Indigenous people can't access financial incentives for renewables because they're tax exempt – blocks them from investing
Miskwish, president Laguna Resource Services Inc, 10
Michael Connolly, Laguna Resource Services Inc is an environmental consulting firm and a principal with High Pass Energy, Inc. He served 17 years as a councilman for the Campo Band of Kumeyaay including as tribal treasurer, May 2010, “CAPTURING THE FULL BENEFIT OF ON-RESERVATION RENEWABLE ENERGY,”, 7 American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, NATIVE AM. RESOURCES COMM. NEWSLETTER 3, DLP ACG PRE Language edited – Indigenized
This resistance to passive …  a substantial return may be politically unfeasible.

Advantage 1 – Self Determination
Indigenous people cant access electricity now and only get it by paying exorbitant prices to exploitative developers from outside the community
National Wildlife Federation 10
March 23, 2010, “The New Energy Future in Indian Country: Confronting Climate Change, Creating Jobs, and Conserving Nations,” Confronting Global Warming Report, released in collaboration with National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Rights Fund, and the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, DLP PRE Language edited – Indigenized
On average, Tribal indigenous … and sustain their natural resources for future generations.
Current structure of financial incentives blocks indigenous peoples from gaining any benefits of the renewable energy and allows corporate developers to continue the colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples
Miskwish, president Laguna Resource Services Inc, 10
Michael Connolly, Laguna Resource Services Inc is an environmental consulting firm and a principal with High Pass Energy, Inc. He served 17 years as a councilman for the Campo Band of Kumeyaay including as tribal treasurer, May 2010, “CAPTURING THE FULL BENEFIT OF ON-RESERVATION RENEWABLE ENERGY,”, 7 American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, NATIVE AM. RESOURCES COMM. NEWSLETTER 3, DLP ACG PRE Language edited – Indigenized
A 200 megawatt wind  … of the tribes nations as investors or owners, and fail to reinvest in the long-term tribal economy.
Protecting indigenous self determination is a moral imperative. It comes before all other impacts.
Dean B. Suagee, Director, First Nations Environmental Law Program, Vermont Law School, ‘92
enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, “Self-Determination For Indigenous Peoples At The Dawn Of The Solar Age”, Spring and Summer 1992, 25 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 671, Lexis JSN Language edited – Indigenized

All over the world, indigenous peoples are  … entitled to human rights under international law as a matter of principle.
Absent a positive U.S. model, indigenous peoples around the world face systematic extermination.
Morris Prof @ Colorado, 99
Glenn, Professor of the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Policy at the University of Colorado, 199, Native American Sovereignty, p. 324-5 Language edited – Indigenized

More important, the purpose  … to indigenous peoples in other parts of the planet.

Loss of social diversity will cause planetary destruction
Rich, winner of the UN Global 500 Award for Environmental Achievment, 94
Bruce Rich, attorney at the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources Defense Council, has worked for the US Agency for International Development, UN Environemnt Program, World Resources Institute, US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, and the world bank, awarded the UN Global 500 Award for Environmental Achievment, 1994, “Mortgaging the Earth”

The problem lies in pursuing freedom through  … the chimera of universal prediction and control.
Renewable energy development controlled by indigenous peoples allows for self determination, sustainability, and financial security through energy independence
UConn Law Review, 12
Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” DLP PRE Language edited – Indigenized

American Indian tribes …, and the tribes and First Nations.
Economic self sufficiency key to self-determination
Alfred, Director Indigenous Governance Program @ Victoria, 99
Taiaiake Alfred, Director, Indigenous Governance Pogram, Victoria, 99, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto, p. 136-137Language edited – Indigenized
3. Economic self-sufficiency. Meaningful progress towards self-determination  … to contribute to the general development of the community.
Development of renewable energy allows indigenous peoples to attain energy independence and sell energy back to state
UConn Law Review, April 2012
Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” DLP PRE Language edited – Indigenized
VI. GOVERNMENTAL DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES AND FUNDING OPTIONS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS ON RESERVES AND RESERVATIONS
As described above, all  … scrutiny to ensure that there is equality in the bargaining power.
PV ideal for reservations – power lines cant access and otherwise dependent on dirty fuels
UConn Law Review, April 2012
Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA,” DLP PRE
Photovoltaic solar power systems, which convert  …  generation of energy is extremely dependent on the weather.59
Wind is efficient for indigenous peoples
National Wildlife Federation 10
March 23, 2010, “The New Energy Future in Indian Country: Confronting Climate Change, Creating Jobs, and Conserving Nations,” Confronting Global Warming Report, released in collaboration with National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Rights Fund, and the Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, DLP PRE
Tribal Wind
Turbines harness the wind’s  … wind system to be around $32,000.6

Advantage 2 – Warming
Climate change which disproportionately harms Indigenous Peoples is environmental racism
Monani, Environmental Studies, Gettysburg, 1/10/12
Miranda J. Brady a and Salma Monani b, 1/10/12, Wind power! Marketing renewable¶ energy on tribal lands and the struggle¶ for just sustainability¶ a School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University,¶ 322 St. Patrick's Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON,¶ Canada, K1S 5B6¶ b Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College, Campus Box¶ 2455, Science Center, North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA,¶ 17325-1400, USA DCL PRE

Economics, American Indians, and environmental racism
Like many ghettoised ethnic  …  also been those of cultural identity.
Anthropogenic warming causes extinction
James Hansen, NASA space studies director, 5/9/12, Game Over for the Climate, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=2andpartner=rssnytandemc=rss DCL PRE
GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is  … by coming generations.
CO2 devastate marine biodiversity by the end of the century
Munday et al., Australian Research Council Centre of Coral Reef Studies, ‘10
Philip L. Mundaya,1, Danielle L. Dixsona, Mark I. McCormicka, Mark Meekanb, Maud C. O. Ferraric, and Douglas P. Chiversd
aAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia;
bAustralian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia;
cDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and
dDepartment of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada S7N 5E2
July 2010, http://www.pnas.org/content/107/29/12930.full, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004519107 JPW PRE

Our results show that CO2 concentrations  … individual behavior and increasing mortality at critical life-history transitions.
Ocean biodiversity key to solve extinction
Craig, Associate Prof Law, Indiana U School Law, 2003
(McGeorge Law Review, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Lexis)

Biodiversity and ecosystem  …, and we will take most of the biosphere with us
Indigenous lands in the US hold vast renewable energy potential.
UConn Law Review 12
Jessica R. A. Hamilton, Executive Editor, Connecticut Law Review, April 2012, Connecticut Law Review Volume 44 Number 4, “FINDING NEW POWER IN THE WIND, THE EARTH, AND THE SUN: A SURVEY OF THE REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GENERATED ON AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FIRST NATION RESERVES IN CANADA” ACG PRE Language edited – indigenized
American Indian  … by American Indian tribes and First Nations is still in its infancy.
Demonstration of effective climate change methods by indigenous peoples serves as a global model that can avoid the worst climate change scenarios
Brittain et al, Center Manager at CMEW, 2011
Anna Brittain, Bachelors in Polisci and Environmental Studies from Williams, worked with Eurpean Director of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, worked with TRAFFIC providing research and writing assistance for a coral trade analysis report, MS in environmental science and management from the Bren School at UC Santa Barbra, Center Manager at the Center for Management of Ecological Wealth, Sheena Evans, BS in Environemnetal Science from University of Denver, Performing Arts Manager for UCSB Arts and Lectures Program, Amber Giroux, Bachelors in Biology and Environmental Studies from Whitman college, Becca Hammargren, bachelors in Political Science and Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College, worked as AmeriCorps outreach coordinator in the Sierra Nevada AmeriCorps Partnership, worked as community organizer in southwest Montana, works in Planning and Strategies Department at Southern Carolina Edison, Brock Treece, BA in Philosophy from Hillsdale College, Amy Willis, BA in Geography/Environmental Studies from UCLA, worked for the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, info on people from http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~chumash/about%20us.html, adviser = Hunter Lenihan, prof in Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, “Climate Action on Tribal Lands: A Community Based Approach,” DLP PRE
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash  …  tribal operations and governing bodies.
Embracing the worldview of Indigenous Peoples provides the best framework for challenging global warming – actions to help indigenous people combat warming internalize this ethic as part of US policy and shape our daily practices
Krakoff, Associate Dean of Research Colorado Law School, 8
Sarah, also Law Professor at Colorado Law School, “American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World,” Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Colorodo Law, 85 Den., U.L. Rev. 865 (2008), DLP PRE
A. Sustainability: Remarrying Humans and Nature
Despite the local and global emergence of  …  could indeed participate in the creation of a sustainable world.
We have an ethical imperative to try to address climate change – lacking incentives, only adopting an ethical framework that supports mitigating human contributions to climate change and redressing environmental justice issues regardless of direct solvency can mobilize global support against emissions
Krakoff, Associate Dean of Research Colorado Law School, 8
Sarah, also Law Professor at Colorado Law School, “American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World,” Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Colorodo Law, 85 Den., U.L. Rev. 865 (2008), DLP PRE
Yet as important as it is to highlight its environmental  …  is that embraced by many American Indian tribes.

Plan
Plan: The United States Federal Government should offer long-term tradable tax credits to corporations and governments of Indigenous Peoples for development of wind or solar energy projects in the United States.
Indigenous Peoples comprise people the United States government refers to as Native American or American Indians.

Solvency
Tax credits levels the playing field for indigenous peoples and promotes self-determination

Arizona Law Review 10
Sullivan 10 (Bethany C., J.D., University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, “CHANGING WINDS: RECONFIGURING THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR RENEWABLE-ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN COUNTRY”, 52 Ariz. L. Rev. 823, Lexis, og) Language Edited – Indigenized
The utilization of federal tax credits is  …  the reins by enacting their own transferable renewable-energy tax credits. 165

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