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1. Interpretation –

A. Incentives motivate a change in action.  The plan doesn’t incentivize action beyond the purchase of the solar generators, which are already being made.
Yusof, 12 - Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia (Nor’Aini, “THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES TO FACILITATE AN INNOVATIVE HOUSING DELIVERY SYSTEM: THE PERSPECTIVE OF HOUSING DEVELOPERS,” Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 7. 1  (Feb 2012): 55-68, proquest)
In general, incentives can be defined ….. change the way in which they do business.

B. This is not like military procurement of reactors which spurs further development of nuclear power. This is they just buy some solar. There is no incentive for doing more.

Procurement's not an incentive
Czinkota et al, 9 - Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University (Michael, Fundamentals of International Business, p. 69 – google books)
Incentives offered by policymakers to facilitate foreign investments………… investments in infrastructure facilities.

2. Their interpretation is bad-

A. Bidirectionality – they can claim to buy all the solar industry to kill it.

B. Limits – Guaranteed purchase legitimizes cases like RPS or feed-in-tariffs. Explodes the mechanism of an already huge topic.

3. T is a voter because it’s necessary for debate

Tournament: Wake | Round: 5 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

1. The 1AC’s introduction of death impacts into debate is bad.

A) Trivialization. Death debating causes an aesthetic fascination with the spectacle of death. This turns debate into a death cult and denies the choice to avoid death impacts.
Jean Baudrillard, Dartmouth BM Hack, ’93 (Symbolic Exchange and Death trans Iain Grant, p. 185-7)
Pursued and censured everywhere, death ...put an end to political economy.

B) Body Counts. Death debating reduces peoples’ lives to mere numbers for debaters to consume in their game.
Jean Baudrillard, Dartmouth BM Hack, ’93 (Symbolic Exchange and Death trans Iain Grant, 162-3, 173-5, “manpower” is left deliberately in)
2. More importantly, that ...consumption in social input and output?

2. Vote neg because the aff introduced death impacts into the debate.
Austin Kutscher, President of the Foundation of Thanatology and Professor – Columbia University, ’80 (Death and Existence, p. Foreward)
Within the educational setting, interdisciplinary ...to humankind, collectively and individually.

3. This is a gateway argument about how we should be allowed to debate. If they win that we can use death impacts, then the rest of the 1NC applies. We will not make cross-applications from other flows to prove the link.

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Obama’s upper hand will avoid the fiscal cliff and a recession now
Green 11-7
Joshua Green - Nov 7, 2012 Obama’s Strengthened Hand May Force Republican Opponents to Deal http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-08/obama-s-strengthened-hand-may-force-republican-opponents-to-deal.html
At first glance, the results ...further damage on the conservative cause.

Even secret military alternative energy is unpopular in congress – spending concerns, Solyndra controversy and perceived as politically motivated
Snider 12
Annie Snider, EandE reporter February 23, 2012 Military's alt energy programs draw Republicans' ire http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2012/02/23/2?page_type=print
Suspicion is growing among Republican lawmakers ...flown as part of this exercise?"

Obama’s political capital is key
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Mike Dorning - Nov 7, 2012 Obama Success on Fiscal Cliff May Hinge on Congress Ties http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-08/obama-success-on-fiscal-cliff-may-hinge-on-better-congress-ties.html
President Barack Obama, his re...involvement will provide an easier path.

Sequestration devastates military capabilities – guarantees conflict escalation and terrorism
Skelton 9-20
partner with Husch Blackwell and former Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, “Sequestration means cuts we can’t afford,” Roll Call, Lexis
Sequestration will also erode America's military… threats themselves won't wait.

Kagan

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Rare earth supply and demand are stable now.
Seeking Alpha 8/29 Qineqt, Team of investment professionals including former hedge fund manager, trader and analyst at top tier $10 billion hedge fund. Members include investment professionals who oversaw research and trading organization of 50+. Avoid Molycorp Until Its Liquidity Position Improves August 29, 2012 http://seekingalpha.com/article/834711-avoid-molycorp-until-its-liquidity-position-improves
According to a recent MIT study...to severe price hikes in future.

Sudden energy investment skyrockets rare earth prices – devastates manufacturers and deters innovation across all industries.
Epstein 12 Nicholas Epstein, Chicago Policy Review, Medium Rare: What’s Cooking in the Rare Earth Element Market? Evaluating Rare Earth Element Availability: A case with Revolutionary Demand From Clean Technologies Elisa Alonso, Andrew M. Sherman, Timothy J. Wallington, Mark P. Everson, Frank R. Field, Richard Roth, and Randolph E. Kirchain Environmental Science and Technology. 2012.Jul 12th, 2012 http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2012/07/12/medium-rare-whats-cooking-in-the-rare-earth-element-market/
REE supplies are vulnerable for several ...chain, and deters additional innovation.

China will respond by cutting off rare earth supply – culminates in U.S.-China war.
Cohen 7 David Cohen, New Scientist, 5-23-7 “Earth's natural wealth: an audit” http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19426051.200-earths-natural-wealth-an-audit.html

Extinction.
White 11 Mr. Hugh White is professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University in Canberra and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. The Obama Doctrine WSJ, 11/25/11 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204452104577057660524758198.html
One risk is that escalating strategic ...be dangerously unclear and disastrously low.

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Economic impacts are minimal.  The worst blackout in history cost a few billion –  a tiny percentage of the economy
Fairley   4  Peter Fairley  /  August 2004  ieee spectrum   The Unruly Power Grid- Advanced mathematical modeling suggests that big blackouts are inevitable   http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/the-unruly-power-grid
The 14 August 2003 blackout……. graph, Only Too Likely".

Business in resilient – they can offset losses; for example producing and selling more after the blackout
Rose 7  Adam Z  Rose, USC; Shu-Yi Liao, National Chung Hsing University; Gbadebo Oladosu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Risk Analysis, Vol  27, No  3, 2007   Business Interruption Impacts of a Terrorist Attack on the Electric Power System of Los Angeles:
Customer Resilience to a Total Blackout        research create usc edu/cgi/viewcontent cgi?article=1022   papers
One of the major factors…. caused by a terrorist attack

Repairs after blackouts are an economic stimulus
Lester  12     jlester    October 31, 2012       Cleantech Finance     Can Hurricane Sandy spur the adoption of smart microgrid technologies?     http://www.cleantechfinance.net/tag/smart-grid/
When natural disasters such as Hurricane….. economic and social boost.

Economic decline doesn’t cause war.
Jervis 11 Robert, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political  Science, and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia  University. Force in Our Times  Saltzman Working Paper No. 15  July 2011 http://www.siwps.com/news.attachment/saltzmanworkingpaper15-842/SaltzmanWorkingPaper15.PDF
Even if war is still seen ...it will not make war  thinkable.

Critical financial systems have emergency backup
Fago 12   Darcie Fago On Monday, August 13th, 2012     USA Report    U.S. Power Grid – Time to Modernize?
http://usastockreport.com/u-s-power-grid-time-modernize/859174/
While critical parts of our financial system such…. in turn impact the economy.

Widespread blackouts won't happen here
Leger 12    Donna Leinwand Leger, USA TODAY   7/31/2012    Energy experts say blackout like India's is unlikely in U.S.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-07-31/usa-india-power-outage/56622978/1
WASHINGTON – A massive, countrywide power failure like the one in India on….. hour by hour, Mansoor said.

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A. Renewables cause catastrophic blackouts
Holehouse 11    Matthew Holehouse, reporter    23 Nov 2011  The Telegraph  http://www telegraph co uk/finance/8909585/Green-energy-could-trigger-catastrophic-blackouts html
Green energy could trigger 'catastrophic' blackouts 'Unstable' renewable energy ………. accommodate the jumps in supply 

B. Impacts

1. Intermittence causes cascading blackouts, taking out the economy
   Nahigian 8  Kenneth Nahigian,  Senior Advisor to the Reform Institute's Center for Energy and Environmental Progress and is General Counsel to Nahigian Strategies, LLC – a communications and policy strategy firm. He previously served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.   June 30, 2008   The Smart Alternative: Securing and Strengthening Our Nation’s Vulnerable Electric Grid   http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/8637.pdf
   Despite being designed to mitigate damage ………… power grid as part of their tactics.11

2. Economic downturn causes wars – history proves
History's lessons of the war link apply today
Green and Schrage 9 – Michael J Green, Senior Advisor and Japan Chair @ CSIS and Associate Professor @ Georgetown University AND Steven P Schrage, CSIS School Chair in International Business and Former Senior Official with the US Trade Representative’s Office," State Department and Ways and Means Committee,  Mar 26, 2009 Asia Times,  "It’s not just the economy http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/KC26Dk01.html
Facing the worst economic crisis since the …….. security are intertwined in most of the critical challenges we face.

3. Sudden decline in US military capability causes global war
Brzezinski  12    Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser under US president Jimmy Carter,         February 1, 2012     
 Gulf News  from    Washington Post   " Global stability depends on America not collapsing" http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/global-stability-depends-on-america-not-collapsing-1.974027
Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese .......... itself for a dangerous slide into global turmoil.

4. These conflicts escalate to nuclear war
Bosco  6        David Bosco, senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine, 7/23/06,   Los Angeles Times, “Could This Be the Start of World War III?”, http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/23/opinion/op-bosco23
IT WAS LATE JUNE in Sarajevo when Gavrilo …………. learned about managing conflict?

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The affirmative’s logic of hegemony is not neutral but is instead based upon a particular narrative of American identity defined in its very opposition to otherness and of foreign identity as always already revealed.  In the most material sense, the result is the imagination of dangers and military intervention.
Daavid Campbell et. al. 7, Prof. of Geography @ Durham, ‘7 Political Geography 26, “Performing security: The imaginative geographies of current US strategy,” p. Wiley

It is important to highlight the way performativity's …….. “rogue states” see Blum, 2002 and Litwak, 2000). 

The affirmative’s willingness to draw lines at all is groundless and results in extinction.
Introna 10
(LUCAS, PROFESSOR OF ORGANIZATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND ETHICS @ LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, AI and SOC, 2010, VOL. 25, “THE ‘MEASURE OF A MAN’ AND THE ETHOS OF HOSPITALITY: TOWARDS AN ETHICAL DWELLING WITH TECHNOLOGY,” PG. 93-102)

In the first, more traditional sense, I mean the values and ………. for being itself becomes concealed. 

Our alternative is to embrace the absolute otherness of every other – this is the only moral imperative and is critical to rupture violence.
Introna 10
(LUCAS, PROFESSOR OF ORGANIZATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND ETHICS @ LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, AI and SOC, 2010, VOL. 25, “THE ‘MEASURE OF A MAN’ AND THE ETHOS OF HOSPITALITY: TOWARDS AN ETHICAL DWELLING WITH TECHNOLOGY,” PG. 93-102)
Instead of creating value systems in our own ……….. nothing in common (Lingis 1994). Is such a community possible?

The inevitable termination of all matter and the unique position of life as a being that chooses makes the ethical alignment of the alternative the only impact you evaluate.
CLARK, 2010
(NIGEL, SENIOR LECTURER IN GEOGRAPHY @ OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK, PARALLAX, VOL. 16, NO. 1, OPEN RESEARCH ONLINE, “EX-ORBITANT GENEROSITY: GIFTS OF LOVE IN A COLD COSMOS,” HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/DOI:10.1080/13534640903478809, PG. 80-95) 

In this way, desire or love is becoming, and generosity is generativity - ………….. turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

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IRAN DA

A. Lack of US prolif leadership undermines sanctions on Iran – others won't go along and that nullified the sanctions
Solomon 11   JAY SOLOMON, Wall Street Journal November 17, 2011    "China, Russia Resist Sanctions Against Iran"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204517204577042490257658040.html
VIENNA—A new U.S. and European-led ………… the need to keep China and Russia on board."

B. US leadership would mean complete, international sanctions against Iran
Tau 12      BYRON TAU, reporter    9/14/12    Politico    "Clinton touts Iran sanctions policy" http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/clinton-touts-iran-sanctions-policy-135623.html
After a week of tussling with …………civilian nuclear program for Tehran.

C. US leadership would result effective sanctions and risk Iran lash out
Heller 12     Mark A. Heller, principal research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Published: January 25, 2012           New York Times              A Europe-Iran War
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/a-europe-iran-war.html?_r=0
TEL AVIV — This week, the European …….., believed that Japan’s ultimate defeat was foreordained.

D. The result is extinction
Chossudovsky  5  Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalisation    1 May 2005   Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO505A.html
The Bush Administration has embarked upon a ……… retaliate following US-Israeli air strikes.

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Violence as a means to counter violence inevitably fails and recreates its harms - enlightened Buddhist self-reflection is the only possible starting point for ending conflict
Loy 2 (http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Miscellaneous/NonDuality_Good_and_Evil.htm,  On the Nonduality of Good and Evil: Buddhist Reflections on the New Holy War  David Loy Faculty of International Studies Bunkyo University Japan,
original source: Buddhist Peace Fellowship )
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people......then perhaps something good may yet come out of this horrible tragedy.

The alternative is to move beyond dualisms and reject the concept of the self.
Loy 96 (Loy, David. 1996 (“Beyond good and evil? A Buddhist critique of Nietzsche.” Asian Philosophy, 09552367, Mar1996, Vol. 6, Issue 1)
This process implies that what we fear.......fixing it anywhere". 10

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The United States Federal Government should substantially increase heat subsidies in federally assisted housing. 

Counterplan solves and resolves ethics.
CNN 11, 2/13 http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/11/news/economy/obama_heating_cuts/index.htm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama's 2012 budget will.......Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.

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China is pursuing energy efficiency, including shutting down coal plants – but energy costs are key
Power 12 (Dr. Thomas M. Power, University of Montana, Professor Emeritus)
(“The Greenhouse Gas Impact of Exporting Coal from the West Coast” http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/02/Coal-Power-White-Paper.pdf)
4. China Has Tremendous Potential to Reduce Dependence on.......smaller, and less efficient steel production facilities.

US shift away from coal multiplies exports to China tenfold
de Place 11 (Eric de Place: Senior researcher, has investigated a wide range of research topics for Sightline, from property rights in Oregon, to regional climate policies. Before coming to Sightline, he worked for the Northwest Area Foundation developing strategies to alleviate poverty in rural communities. Sightline Institute is a not-for-profit research and communications center—a think tank—based in Seattle. Sightline’s mission is to make the Northwest a global model of sustainability—strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment.)
(September 2011 Sightline Institute. “Northwest Coal Exports” http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/02/coal-FAQ.pdf)
In recent years, the US has exported only a few million tons of coal to Asia, and.........increasing as many analysts had been expecting.22

US coal exports drive Chinese coal demand – domestic production can’t keep pace
Plumer 12 (Brad Plumer is a reporter focusing on energy and environmental issues. He was previously an associate editor at The New Republic.)
 “How the U.S. could influence China’s coal habits — with exports” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/can-the-united-states-influence-chinas-coal-habits/2012/05/01/gIQAgqUpuT_blog.html
Still, as a recent and fascinating report........means more coal will be burned than would otherwise be the case

Cheap coal leads to runaway warming – it locks in Chinese coal dependence for the next half century
Power 12 (Dr. Thomas M. Power, University of Montana, Professor Emeritus)
(“The Greenhouse Gas Impact of Exporting Coal from the West Coast” http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/02/Coal-Power-White-Paper.pdf)
Although the economic life of coal-fired generators......also last well into the next half-century.57

Pollution causes CCP collapse and nuclear war
Yee and Storey 2002 (Herbert Yee, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Ian Storey, Lecturer in Defence Studies at Deakin University, 2002 (The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality, RoutledgeCurzon, pg 5
The fourth factor contributing to the perception.......would also pose a threat to its neighbours and the world.

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Interpretation – Restriction must be directly tied to energy production - 

"on" means production must be the object of incentives
Merriam Websters  2011    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on
preposition \ˈȯn, ˈän\
b —used as a function word to indicate the object with respect.......second-place team the joke's on me

Energy production is transforming natural resources to heat, light or electricity
Battelle  80    Battelle Memorial Institute (prepared for DOEa), An Analysis of  Federal Incentives Used to Stimulate Energy Production Feb 1980   http://www.scribd.com/doc/67538352/Federal-Incentives-for-Energy-Production-1980
Energy production is defined as the transformation.....into a useful energy form.

Violation – The aff is not tied to energy production. GHG restriction might affect energy production, but itself is not energy reduction.

Vote neg

Limits – tons of bidirectional mechanisms impact energy technology in ways that could increase or decrease production – only directly lifting restriction on increased production creates fair, predictable limits
EIA, Energy Information Administration of the US DOE, 92
(“Federal Energy Subsidies: Direct and Indirect Interventions in Energy Markets,” ftp://tonto.eia.doe.gov/service/emeu9202.pdf, accessed 10-3-12 Bosley)
In some sense, most Federal policies have the......public enterprise, or research and development.

Unpredictable ground – They can claim advantages off of mechanisms that affect energy production. They can claim research benefits off of RandD affs, they can claim warming advantages off of clean coal, etc.

FX and Extra T is a voter –Proves the resolution is insufficient, and it’s inherently de-limiting.

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T Financial Incentive

A.Financial incentives exclude coercive action

1.Financial incentives are positive –they only rely on economic reward  
Yusof, 12 - Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Pinang, Malaysia (Nor’Aini, “THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES TO FACILITATE AN INNOVATIVE HOUSING DELIVERY SYSTEM: THE PERSPECTIVE OF HOUSING DEVELOPERS,” Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 7. 1  (Feb 2012): 55-68, proquest)
In general, incentives can be defined as ……………the way in which they do business.

2.Financial incentives are different from regulations and policies
DSIRE  7 Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency,2007  (North Carolina State University,
Link no longer available but is reprinted here: http://www.mrsolar.com/content/dsire.php
What types of renewable energy incentives ……….. and green power purchasing/aggregation policies.

B. Plan violates – the feed-in tariff  is based on a coercive action, the requirement to buy.  Without that requirement, not one would pay the higher price.  An incentive structure might be created, but it is based on the requirement to purchase at a particular price
Ehsan Alishahi, Mohsen P. Moghaddamn , Mohammad K. Sheikh-El-Eslami in 2011,  Energy Policy 39 (2011) 4614–4623,  An investigation on the impacts of regulatory interventions on wind power expansion in generation planning
Nowadays, due to the increasing concerns related to ………… on investing decisions of investors in wind power generation.  

C. The aff interpretation is bad for debate

Limits are necessary for negative preparation and clash.  

Permitting new requirments makes the topic bi-directional – even if the requirement forces an incentive structure on the market, it increases restrictions to begin with

Also, permitting new regulations as the basis for incentives is unlimiting – there's no limit to the number of new requirements that could be imposed on energy production 

T is a voter because it is necessary for debate. 

Immigration DA

Immigration reform has momentum and it’s Obamas top priority, PC is key
Fifield 3-20
Anna Fifield, Financial Times, March 20, 2013, “Immigration: Pressure mounts on Obama to overhaul citizenship requirements” http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9235c2aa-8ad4-11e2-b1a4-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2O7I5qCku
Emboldened by his resounding reelection, Mr Obama has ……….. would be put back in the too-hard basket for a few more years. 

Plan costs PC-- Feed-in tarrifs are massively unpopular
Haugen 9 Dan, award winning journalist who writes about energy, business, and technology; “Why Isn't the U.S. Embracing Feed-in Tariffs?” March 29, 2009; http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20090324/why-isnt-us-embracing-feed-tariffs
Feed-in tariffs like this have long been the primary ……… generated by investor-owned utilities.

Immigration reforms key to the economy
Beadle 12-10
Amanda Peterson Beadle, Think Progress, Dec 10, 2012, “Top 10 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs Comprehensive Immigratio
n Reform” http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/10/1307561/top-10-reasons-why-the-us-needs-comprehensive-immigration-reform-that-includes-a-path-to-citizenship/
1.Legalizing the 11 million undocumented immigrants in …………….. one of these fields at a U.S. university, 2.62 American jobs are created.

Extinction
Merlini, Senior Fellow – Brookings, 11
 Cesare Merlini, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Rome. He served as IAI president from 1979 to 2001. Until 2009, he also occupied the position of executive vice chairman of the Council for the United States and Italy, which he co-founded in 1983. His areas of expertise include transatlantic relations, European integration and nuclear non-proliferation, with particular focus on nuclear science and technology. A Post-Secular World?  DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2011.571015 Article Requests: Order Reprints : Request Permissions Published in: journal Survival, Volume 53, Issue 2 April 2011 , pages 117 - 130 Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year  Download PDF Download PDF (357 KB)     View Related Articles  To cite this Article: Merlini, Cesare 'A Post-Secular World?', Survival, 53:2, 117 – 130
Two neatly opposed scenarios for the ………….. absolutes such as unbridled nationalism

States CP
The fifty state governments and all relevant territories should establish a renewable energy payment program that creates long-term purchase contracts for new qualifying facilities in the United States that use wind or solar power for energy production to ensure a reasonable rate of return.

States can do feed-in tariffs
Sawin 7
Director of the Energy and Climate Change Program at the Worldwatch Institute, an independent org in D.C. Janet L.“If the Shoe FITs: Using Feed next term-in previous term Tariffsnext term to Meet U.S. Renewable Electricity Targets” The Electricity Journal, Volume 20, Issue 4, May 2007, Pages 73-86
A second possibility is that ………….. contracts similar to feed-in tariffs.

Rare Earth DA
The rare earth market is stable now – future mines will meet growing demand
Kuepper 2/8
Justin Kuepper, financial journalist, chief editor of The OTC Investor, an investment news site that provides market news and stock highlights, 2/8/13, “Understanding China's Rare Earth Metals Market: What Changing Regulations Could Mean”, http://commodityhq.com/2013/inside-chinas-rare-earth-metal-industry/ jchen
Rare earth metals are a vital ……….. with a more robust supply to meet growing demand.

Short term energy investment skyrockets rare earth prices – devastates manufacturers and deters innovation across all industries.
Epstein 12 Nicholas Epstein, Chicago Policy Review, Medium Rare: What’s Cooking in the Rare Earth Element Market? Evaluating Rare Earth Element Availability: A case with Revolutionary Demand From Clean Technologies Elisa Alonso, Andrew M. Sherman, Timothy J. Wallington, Mark P. Everson, Frank R. Field, Richard Roth, and Randolph E. Kirchain Environmental Science and Technology. 2012.Jul 12th, 2012 http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2012/07/12/medium-rare-whats-cooking-in-the-rare-earth-element-market/
REE supplies are vulnerable for ………… on a consistent supply-chain, and deters additional innovation.

China will respond by cutting off rare earth supply – collapses relations
Cohen 7 David Cohen, New Scientist, 5-23-7 “Earth's natural wealth: an audit” http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19426051.200-earths-natural-wealth-an-audit.html
These may sound like drastic solutions, ……….. the supply, that would create a big risk of conflict, says Reller.

Extinction.
White 11 Mr. Hugh White is professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University in Canberra and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. The Obama Doctrine WSJ, 11/25/11 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204452104577057660524758198.html
One risk is that escalating ……………. clash might be dangerously unclear and disastrously low.

Neoliberalism K
The plan’s endorsement of the solar powered silicon economy locks in global systems of inequality
Pellow and Park (Profs of Ethnic Studies @ UCSD) 2
(David and Lisa, The Silicon Valley of Dreams, pg. 2-3)
But the Valley has an underside. A second image …………. labor markets, and the social and envi-  ronmental nature of the high-tech revolution.  

Multiple structural trends towards extinction
Szentes ‘8
Tamás Szentes, a Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest. “Globalisation and prospects of the world society” 4/22/08 http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/Events/exco/Glob.___prospects_-_jav..pdf
It’ s a common place that human …………. irreversible changes in natural environment.

Our alternative is to reject the Aff’s endorsement of market mechanisms.  Our rejection of market competition is an act of economic imagination that can create real alternatives within the existing economy
White and Williams (senior lecturer of economic geography at Sheffield Hallam University; professor of public policy in the Management School at the University of Sheffield) 12
(Richard J. and Cohn C., Escaping Capitalist Hegemony: Rereading Western Economies in The Accumulation of Freedom, pg. 131-32)
The American anarchist Howard Ehrlich …………. of an enlivened noncapitalist policies of place.

Warming

Turn-- Feed in tariff doesn’t decrease emissions – It results in small-scale projects that tradeoff with real solutions
In Balance 08 – Energy Markets, 2/26/08 “Feed-in tariffs: a regressive tax?” http://inbalance.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/feed-in-tariffs-a-regressive-tax/ Mills
There are two issues with feed-in tariffs: …………… under the existing Renewables Obligation.

Their solvency evidence assumes EVERY OTHER EMISSIONS POLICY IN THE WORLD IS 100% successful
John Lorinc 9, New York Times, 10/27, http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/climate-change-policy-and-safe-investing/
Indeed, the study — which modeled the ………. — a crucial threshold, according to many scientists.

We're past the tipping point – scientific consensus
Solomon et al 10
Susan Solomon et. Al, Chemical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ph.D. in Climotology University of California, Berkeley, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Chairman of the IPCC, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Deputy Head, Director of Science, Technical Support Unit Working Group I, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Affiliated Scientist, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, John S. Daniel, research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Todd J. Sanford, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science, University of Colorado Daniel M. Murphy, Chemical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder Gian-Kasper Plattner, Deputy Head, Director of Science, Technical Support Unit Working Group I, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Affiliated Scientist, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland Reto Knutti, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule Zurich and Pierre Friedlingstein, Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate Systems, member of the Science Steering Committee of the Analysis Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) programme of IGBP and of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), 8/31/2010, “Persistence of climate changes due to a range of greenhouse gases,” PNAS vol. 107, no. 43, http://www.pnas.org/content/107/43/18354.full.pdf+html vkoneru
Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ………….. paper focuses on emissions over a century.

Alt causes – Deforestation.
Nordhaus 8 Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Founders-Break Through Institute, Break Through, p. 64
None of this is to deny the ecological reality. ……….. the Amazon would still leave the global climate system in jeopardy.

Meta-analysis of ocean acidification finds little damage because of adaptation and community resilience – Their studies are snapshots
I.E. Hendriks, Department of Global Change Research. IMEDEA, Universitat de les Illes Balears; Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, worked on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence, et al., C.M. Duarte, M. A´lvarez, 11-24-09, “Vulnerability of marine biodiversity to ocean acidification: A meta-analysis,” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 86 (2010) 157–164, http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/master/cambioglobal/Modulo_2_07/Marta2010/hendriksecss2010.pdf E. Liu
The meta-analysis of our database, which ………….. intracellular regulation of concentrations.

No global tech transfer – trade barriers prevent adoption
Hall and Helmers 10 Bronwyn H. Hall, Professor of the Graduate School – UC Berkeley, Christian Helmers, University of Oxford - Department of Economics, The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer 24 October 2010 http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5706
There are a number of other issues …………… in large emerging economies.

Grid

No cyber war – deterrence.
Lewis 11 Project Director James A. Lewis January 2011 a report of the  csis commission on  cybersecurity for  the 44th presidency Cybersecurity Two Years Later Commission Cochairs Representative James R. Langevin Representative Michael T. McCaul Scott Charney Lt. General Harry Raduege, USAF (ret.)  http://csis.org/files/publication/110128_Lewis_CybersecurityTwoYearsLater_Web.pdf
However, we are not engaged in a cyber ……………. high for frivolous engagement.

Monoculture doesn’t cause crop extinctions – no impact.
Wood 3 1/08/2003, AgBioView, http://www.agbioworld.org
The analogy put forward by NGOs that crop varieties …………evolution and turnover that collecting and seed stores fail to capture.

No impact – agroterrorism is ineffective and on a small scale.
Leising 4 James G. Leising, Professor and Department Head Agricultural Education
Oklahoma State University, et al, 2004 (http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:YdL5 zi8R9QJ:aaae.okstate.edu/proceedings/2004/Session%2520D/Agroterrorism%2520Paper%2520%2520Ashlock,%2520Leising%2520%26%2520Cartmell.doc+agroterrorism+risk+analysisandhl=enandct=clnkandcd=10andgl=usandclient=firefox-a)
Cameron, Pate and Vogel (2001) maintain ……….. fields, resulting in losses of approximately $5,000.

No reason big farms couldn’t also cash in on Feed in Tariffs – their 1ac internal lx is terrible. Doesn’t correct any structural factors

Barriers like state laws prevent changes in the grid – renewables would feed into the existing grid
OurEnergyPolicy.org  2012    Making the Electric Grid More Resilient    http://www.ourenergypolicy.org/making-the-electric-grid-more-resilient/
A recent paper coauthored by M. Granger ……….. initiatives to make it happen.”

Disregard their Corsi evidence – he’s an unqualified, bigoted conspiracy theorist whose writing has not been peer-reviewed and should be considered presumptively false.
Grove 5 Lloyd, NY Daily News staff writer, 2/24, http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/2005/02/24/2005-02-24_dems_going_nuclear_over_book.html
The book - which Nashville's Cumberland House ……………. and Catholicism is okay with the Pope, as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press."

Water
Water shortages inevitable
Liz 12 (Author Frank Liz is a futurist, an entrepreneur, and author of the “Starving for Answers. Liz speaks about future possibilities of planet, climate change and creating food shortages. He tells us that nearly one billion people ache with hunger and that ecoagriculture is the best way of ending hunger.)
(“Are You Ready For Worldwide Water Wars? http://frankliz.com/worldwide-water-wars/)
Why does the world ………….. international violence around 2030. It will only get worse.

EU improving food aid—US exports not key.
Ravelo (Devex Staff writer) 8-2-2012
Jenny Lei, “NO TEETH? NEW FOOD AID TREATY WINS EU SUPPORT” http://www.devex.com/en/blogs/49/blogs_entries/78831?source=MostPopularNews_4
A new blueprint to help developing ………… according to Sharrock. Others may sign on by January.

Food shocks inevitable – too many alt causes.
Tipson 12 Frederick, special advisor to the Center for Science,Technology and Peacebuilding at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where hewas a 2011-12 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow. He worked previously for the UN Development Programme, Microsoft, the MarkleFoundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, Hongkong Telecom,ATandT, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the University ofVirginia School of Law. Global Food Insecurity and "Political Malnutrition," June 2012, Number 7, German Marshall Fund Connections, http://www.gmfus.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files_mf/1339595984Tipson_GlobalFoodInsecurity_Jun12.pdf
Meanwhile, the political dimensions of “food insecurity”  …………. lose trust in markets and governments to assure  their access to adequate food supplies.

Can’t solve – political reforms are a prerequisite.
Tipson 12 Frederick, special advisor to the Center for Science,Technology and Peacebuilding at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where hewas a 2011-12 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow. He worked previously for the UN Development Programme, Microsoft, the MarkleFoundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, Hongkong Telecom,ATandT, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the University ofVirginia School of Law. Global Food Insecurity and "Political Malnutrition," June 2012, Number 7, German Marshall Fund Connections, http://www.gmfus.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files_mf/1339595984Tipson_GlobalFoodInsecurity_Jun12.pdf
All farming, like all politics (so the saying goes), ………….. performance can  be severely limited.

Wars don’t escalate—only poor countries with weak militaries would go to war over food

Ogallala depletion inevitable
Postel 12 Sandra, director of the Global Water Policy Project; lead water expert for National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative; “Texas Water District Acts to Slow Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer” February 7, 2012; http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/02/07/texas-water-district-acts-to-slow-depletion-of-the-ogallala-aquifer/
A group of farmers in northwest Texas ……………water-limited future. Let the adaptation begin.

No Ogallala depletion
Suber 2
Jim Suber, 2-7-02, “Water expert corrects myths about Ogallala Aquifer”, Topeka Capital-Journal, l/n
Carl Nuzman, one of the world's foremost …………. doesn't foresee a major decline in agricultural output.

No biodiversity collapse.
Doremus, Berkeley Law, 2K Holly, Law Professor – Cal Berkeley, 57 Wash and Lee L. Rev. 11, L/N
Reluctant to concede such losses, tellers of ……….. without precipitating a collapse. n217