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The drive for renewable energy plays into the capitalist drive for profits – planetary catastrophe is inevitable under capitalism regardless of whether we transition from oil to renewables.
Principia Dialectica 2009 Principia Dialectica, "Capitalism Isn’t Addicted to Oil - but Profits," September 30, 2009, http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/?p=564-http://www.principiadialectica.co.uk/blog/?p=564
In 2008, the companies making the largest worldwide profits were all oil companies (Exxon  Mobil, Gazprom, Shell, Chevron, BP and Petrobas), making a total of $144bn (the 7th ranked was Microsoft with 18bn). As well as being a large source of profit, the Crude-Oil Production and Mining sector also provided some of the best financial returns worldwide:
14% – Food Consumer Products 14% – Crude-Oil Production and Mining 12% – Pharmaceuticals
9% – Household and Personal Products 7% – Tobacco 6% – Entertainment (World’s six highest industry sectors ranked by % returns on assets – 2008) (Source 1, below)
Greens have promoted the idea that and will continue to arise, whilst capitalism persists.

ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ENERGY FAILS TO ADDRESS THE REAL ISSUES OF ENERGY BY ONLY OFFERING TECHNICAL FIXES. THE “ENERGY CRISIS” OF THE 1AC IS ROOTED IN THE CULTURAL DESIRE TO PUSH THE LIMITS OF PRODUCTION. THIS ONLY CREATES AN “ENERGY BOOMERRANG EFFECT” WHERE TO ANSWER AN ENERGY ISSUE WE CREATE MORE ENERGY THAT ONLY PUSHES THE BOUNDRIES FURTHER BRINGING US BACK TO THE IMPACTS OF THE 1AC WHICH ALL BE INEVITABLE UNTIL WE ADDRESS THE TRUE ISSUE OF PRODUCTION.
Zehner 12Green illusions, Ozzie Zehner is the author of Green Illusions and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent publications include public science pieces in Christian Science Monitor, The American Scholar, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Humanist, The Futurist, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. He has appeared on PBS, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and regularly guest lectures at universities. Zehner’s research and projects have been covered by The Sunday Times, USA Today, WIRED, The Washington Post, Business Week and numerous other media outlets. He also serves on the editorial board of Critical Environmentalism. Zehner primarily researches the social, political and economic conditions influencing energy policy priorities and project outcomes. His work also incorporates symbolic roles that energy technologies play within political and environmental movements. His other research interests include consumerism, urban policy, environmental governance, international human rights, and forgeries. Zehner attended Kettering University (BS -Engineering) and The University of Amsterdam (MS/Drs – Science and Technology Studies). His research was awarded with honors at both institutions. He lives in San Francisco.

If we were gunslingers, we'd be in trouble…….. But as it turns out, they aren't free at all—they're enormously expensive.

Nuclear production locks in productionism through obsession with finance, competitiveness and technological solutions while disproportionality placing the cost on citizens through austerity measures
Maciejewska and Marszalek ’11 (Malgorzata, institute of Sociology and Faculty of Social Sciences at Wroclaw University, and Marcin, Wroclaw University (Poland), “Lack of power or lack of democracy: the case of the projected nuclear power plant in Poland,” Economic and Environmental Studies Vol. 11, No.3 (19/2011), 235-248, Sept. 2011, AM)

The mainstream discourse      and restructure the modern economy. 

State economics turn to nuclear technology as a replacement for oil for energy security and imperialist expansion – capitalist’s only turn to nuclear power when the state passes favorable policy
DiaNuke 11 (DiaNuke.org, “Nuclear Energy and Capitalism” Sept 7, 2011, http://www.dianuke.org/nuclear-energy-and-capitalism/)

As regards the economics …..fissile material and a cover for weapons programmes.

Rest of the Cap Shell

Capitalism’s naturalization of the process of subjugation creates social exclusion on a global scale – the ultimate ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the foundations of this system’s organization principles
Daly in 4(Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek, 14-6)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut ….. a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.

Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to do nothing

Doing nothing is not just sitting and waiting for the moment to attack—it is the only genuine political act--it is an act of abstaining from the depoliticized gameboard of capitalism by refusing to play their game—ultimately withdrawing past the point of commodification
Zizek in 8 (Slavoj, Senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Violence: Big Ideas small books. Picador, pg(s) 213-7, kdf)
Last but not least, the lesson of the intricate rela¬tionship between subjective and …….forcefully confronts us with the vacuity of today's democracies.

A2 Perm

THE PERM DOESN’T ENDANGER THE SYSTEM – THE ALT WILL BE ROBBED OF ITS UNIVERSAL CHARACTER AND WILL LOCK US INTO CAPITALISM
Zizek 2006 (Slavoj, senior researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubjana, The Universal Exception, pg. 248-250)
However, the outcome of this crisis ……institutionalized parliamentary politics and new social movements.

The affirmatives view of the environment and capitalism is not as innocent as it appears--it represents a subjective knowledge of the world infused with a managerial ethos--this approach maintains the view that the environment as a natural resource for consumption—They legitimate capitalist consumption-- plan only strives for creative ways to maintain resources to consume.
Luke in 2k2 (Timothy W., Program Chair of the Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “eco-managerliasim: Environmental Studies as a Power/Knowledge formation," http://web.archive.org/web/20030802005346/http://aurora.icaap.org/2003Interviews/luke.html, kdf) http://aurora.icaap.org/2003Interviews/luke.html, kdf

Before scientific disciplines and industrial technologies moving in fact, many times, very fast to help fungiblize, liquefy, or capitalize natural resources for a more thorough, rapid, and perhaps intensive utilization.

THEIR TRUTH CLAIMS ARE TRAPPED IN A CAPITALIST ONTOLOGY WHICH PREDETERMINES HOW KNOWLEDGE IS PRODUCED
Schiwy, PhD Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke, andEnnis, PhD Candidate in Lit at Duke, 2K2
(Freya and Michael, Nepantla: Views from the South 3.1 project muse gjm)

The essays gathered in this dossier respond ……….the Andes, all three of these articles are efforts to think about epistemology from the Andes.1

CAPITALISM IS THE ROOT CAUSE TO ALL THEIR IMPACTS
Brown in 5 (Charles, Capitalism, Exploitation, and Oppression, April 13, http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2005w15/msg00062.htm,  kdf)
The capitalist class owns the factories, the banks, …….society at large remains a shameful fact of life in the U.S. 

A2 Gibson-Graham

DESPITE THEIR CLAIMS--THE HEGEMONY CAPITALISM IS ALL ENCOMPASSING—MORPHING INTO NEW SHAPES AT THE SMALLEST SIGN OF RESISTANCE—FINDING A WAY OUT OF CAPITALISM RESULTS IN MORE CAPITALISM—AT BEST THEIR ETHICO-POLITICAL RESPONSES IS STILL TAINTED
Critchley in 7 (Simon Prof of Philosophy @ New School; Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance; Verso, p.97-99, kdf)
Sadly, what I have just said is the easy part. For me, Marx's analysis of capitalism remains the sine qua non for the understanding of contemporary socio-economic life. However, what follows from this for our thinking about politics? That is the question. Are we witnessing, as Marx and Engels foresaw with particular clarity in the Manifesto, a simplification of …………Gramsci writes, 'For though hegemony is ethicopolitical, it must also be economic'. 

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Cows and ruminants lead to warming, water pollution, and species loss
LA Times ‘7 (“Pollution on the hoof”, Oct 15, http://articles.latimes.com/print/2007/oct/15/opinion/ed-methane15, CMR)
It's a silent but deadly source of greenhouse gases that contributes more to global warming than the entire world transportation sector, yet politicians almost never discuss it, and environmental lobbyists and other green activist groups seem unaware of its existence.
That may be because it's tough to take cow …..damage of ranching would have to be cut in half just to keep emissions at their current, dangerous level.

The 1AC is a simulation of chaos used to justify permanent war – we’re so terrified of the environmental catastrophe that we end up wanting more intrusions on our freedom to extend totalitarian warfare – this makes the entire planet a gameboard for military elites to extend their control over; the ballot maps you as a human commodity on this gameboard – the impact is a global system of control that replicates the impacts it tries to avoid at all levels of society
Virilio in 1990 (Paul, Director of the Ecole Speciale d´Architecture in Paris since 1975, writer and cultural theorist Paul Virilio has written sixteen books, Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles, Semiotext, p. 64-67)

THE SUPPRESSION OF NATIONAL BOUNDARIES …….over, to have done with popular resistance once and for all?

Threats about the environment leads to the worse form of biopolitical control and destruction turning the case—Scares about oil spill over to wars in foreign countries to secure more—the same thing will happen with the environment
Luke in 1997 (Timothy, The (Un)Wise (Ab)Use of Nature: Environmentalism as Globalized Consumerism?, http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tim/tims/Tim528.htm, kdf)

In conclusion, Foucault is correct about the network of……., because the state has "assumed responsibility for the life processes and undertook to control and modify them."125

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Tight race- Obama slightly ahead in Ohio but anything can change the game-now is not a time for a risky advocacy
Michael Oleaga, Oct 18, 2012 (Swing State Polls 2012: Ohio Polling Data Gives Obama a Slim Lead Ahead of Romney, But Margin of Error Could Change Everything, http://www.latinospost.com/articles/5727/20121018/swing-state-polls-2012-ohio-polling-data-margin-error-debate-election-obama-romney.htm, (Chief Operating Officer at The Young Independent; Reporter at Latinos Post)
The swing state of Ohio has been bombarded with political….the state is still considered a "toss up."

SPENDING AND THE DEFICIT ARE THE CRUCIAL ISSUES - INCREASED SPENDING PRIOR TO THE ELECTION MEANS OBAMA LOSES
USA Today (staff) 5/26/2012
"Obama campaign goes on the defensive on spending, debt" online @ http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-05-26/obama-romney-debt-spending/55221120/1, loghry

A Gallup/USA Today poll conducted May 10-13 found that overall, ……"hold both of those central tenets to be true."

A ROMNEY WIN JACKS RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA -- KEY TO NON PROLIF AND GLOBAL STABILITY
Emmanuel Feltonin (staff) March 2012
"Mitt Romney Russia Quotes Signal Big Problems For Future US-Russian Relations" online @ http://www.policymic.com/articles/6202/mitt-romney-russia-quotes-signal-big-problems-for-future-us-russian-relations, loghry

The importance of America’s alliance with ….be undermined by an increasingly hostile Kremlin.  

ROMNEY WIN MEANS QUICK ISRAELI STRIKES ON IRAN
Fox News (staff) 9/11/2012
"Romney win could spur longtime pal Netanyahu to face Iran threat" online @ http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/11/romney-win-could-spur-longtime-pal-netanyahu-to-face-iran-threat/, loghry

HAIFA, ISRAEL –  Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu go …..administration, decisive action by Israel could come quickly if Romney wins on Nov. 6.

ISRAEL STRIKES DRAW IN MULTIPLE PLAYERS, REGIONAL WAR WILL ESCALATE RESULTING IN EXTINCTION
Stephen Lendman (staff) 3/22/2012
“Perils of Attacking Iran” online @ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/22/18709865.php, loghry

Middle East conflict may escalate beyond what's …. remain in future generations to try. 

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We've delayed till after the election in the lame duck or until the next session. 

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HEGEMONY PRODUCES STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE ON A GLOBAL SCALE
Stefan Bucher (Tamkang University, Taiwan) 2005
"Globalization and Structural Violence" @ http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing-files/idp/eBooks/cov5%20v1.7.pdf, loghry

The violence of globalization is further …. might of power over morality and international law. 

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PV CELLS PRIMARILY CONSIST OF SILICON SOURCED FROM GRAVEL
Rose Secrest (nqa) 2006
"Solar Cell" online @ http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Solar-Cell.html#b, loghry

To make solar cells, the raw materials—silicon ……require an anti-reflective coating, usually titanium dioxide.

GRAVEL MINING POLLUTES STREAMS, GROUNDWATER, AND AQUIFERS. IT POISONS THE HYPORHEIC ZONE AND DISRUPTS THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE
PETER J. HANCOCK (Ecosystem Management, University of New England in Australia) 2002
"Human Impacts on the Stream–Groundwater Exchange Zone" Environmental Management Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 763–781, loghry

Heavy metals associated with mining can pollute …… as they would not be present to stimulate bacterial activity and maintain interstitial porosity (Ward and others 1998, Boulton 2000b). 

THE HYPORHEIC ZONE IS THE KEY INTERNAL LINK TO GROUNDWATER -- THE AFF MAKES DAMAGES IRREVERSIBLE
PETER J. HANCOCK (Ecosystem Management, University of New England in Australia) 2002
"Human Impacts on the Stream–Groundwater Exchange Zone" Environmental Management Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 763–781, loghry

The hyporheic zone is a central part of most sand and …. habitats and incorporate this into their restoration and management plans. 

The hydrologic cycle and groundwater is key to all life on Earth
American Water Resources Association 01/26/1998
“Hydrologic Cycle” online @ http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/eng/fkarner/pages/cycle.htm, loghry

Water's molecular arrangement is very simple, two hydrogens ….. life would not be possible on Earth.