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Consumption K

The aff’s logic of consumption contributes to the problem and precludes effective solutions.

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 out of a hectare of forest
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dealing directly with issues of criticality, risk export, and responsibility evasion.

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_content%26task=view%26id=41%26Itemid=88-http://oneplanetonelife.com/main/index.php?option=com_content%26task=view%26id=41%26Itemid=88, 3/21/2007, JPW
The new global economy, with exponential growth of human population and western consumerism,
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speed, payload, and momentum, quickening its acceleration towards this line.

Efficiency fails in a fully industrialized world – only a shift to sufficiency principles can challenge the status quo and create sustainability

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
Critiques of economic and environmental trends, like mine above, often end by insisting
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realize the benefits, both for the immediate and the long-term.

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Politics

Obama will win the election if nothing changes. It’s close and could change.

Cook Report 9-13
Cook, Charlie. Editor, The Cook Political Report. "Obama’s a Good Bet." The Cook Report (National Journal), September 13, 2012. http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-cook-report-obama-s-a-good-bet-to-win-20120913.
The presidential race is still close and, in a tight election, either candidate
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should be judged on whether it might change the path of this election.

Nuclear power is massively unpopular.

de Rugy, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, GMU, ’12
de Rugy, Veronique: "No to Nukes - Reason.com." Reason, July 2012. http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/25/no-to-nukes-http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/25/no-to-nukes. ~ACG PRE~
Surprising as it may seem, the United States still generates around 20 percent of
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be a long-term clean-energy solution in the United States.
All of this has not stopped the Obama administration from betting on nukes. Even
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industry and creating thousands of new jobs and export opportunities in the process."
But jump-starting nuclear power is not just bad politics. It’s awful economics.

Romney will destroy relations, spur nuclear proliferation, and crush global security.

Felton, Fellow, Columbia Journalism School, ’12
"Mitt Romney Russia Quotes Signal Big Problems for Future US-Russian Relations," policymic, March, 2012, http://www.policymic.com/articles/6202/mitt-romney-russia-quotes-signal-big-problems-for-future-us-russian-relations ~ACG PRE~
Romney called Russia America’s "number one geopolitical foe-http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/03/mitt-romney-russia-number-one-geopolitical-foe.html." While you could argue that
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, global security will continue to be undermined by an increasingly hostile Kremlin.  

Strong relations solve every global impact and turn the case.

CFR Task Force ’6
Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force for Russia, Chairs: John Edwards and Jack Kemp, RUSSIA’S WRONG DIRECTION: WHAT THE UNITED STATES CAN AND SHOULD DO. Independent Task Force Report No. 57. http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/-http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Russia_TaskForce.pdf ~ACG PRE~

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union,
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relations with Russia are on a positive track.

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States CP

Text: The 50 states of the United States of America and Washington D.C. should offer all necessary financial incentives for the development of nuclear power plants in areas with people of high socio-economic people.

States can provide tax credits for nuclear power plant development

Ben-Moshe’ 09
Financing the Nuclear renaissance: The Benefits and Potential Pitfalls of Federal and State Government Subsidies and the Future of Nuclear Power in California,
Sony Ben-Moshe, JOason Crowell, Kelly Gale, Breton Peace, Brett Rosenblatt, Kelly Thomason, Energy Bar Association 2009

7. State Financing of Nuclear Energy
In addition to federal subsidies, various states have passed legislation
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Which we describe in detail in the next section