Cartagena-Grelewicz Aff

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Plan: The USFG should revise existing tax codes to allow for the creation of private Solar - Real Estate Investment Trusts (S-REITs) for Solar Thermal/Concentrated Solar plants on its land in the Mojave Desert.

Contention 1: Inherency
Solar thermal technology requires large amount of open space with direct sunlight
Solar Thermal 8 (http://www.solar-thermal.com/land_requirements.html)
Land Requirements Another challenge for solar thermal is the amount of space required for efficient
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-cost fossil fuels in a legislative climate without subsidies or carbon taxes.
Mojave Desert is best area for sunlight
DOE 1 (http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy01osti/28751.pdf)
Mirror mirror on the wall, what's the greatest energy source of all? The
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environmentally benign source of energy, produce virtually no emissions, and con-
Federal ownership of Mojave hampers private solar development
California Dept. of Fish and Game 5 (http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/wap/region-mojave.html)
The vast Mojave Desert's more than 32 million acres extend into four states: California
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projects, and conservation programs and helps to secure funding for these efforts.
Land speculation is driving up prices, barrier to solar development
LA Times 2/18/12 (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/18/local/la-me-solar-land-20120218)
Land speculators see silver lining in solar projects Remote, inhospitable desert land gains new
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enough private land exists in the Southern California desert to cover the loss.

Contention 2: Solvency
S-REITs have bipartisan support and reduces cost of solar and solar electricity
Bloomberg 13 (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-21/solar-costs-to-fall-as-reits-emerge-as-source-of-funding.html)
A San Francisco startup may win approval as soon as this month to become the
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tough to compete against investors that are utilizing tax incentives,” he said.
S-REITS guarantees substantial inflow of capital and investment
Sturtevant 11 George Washington University Solar Institute (http://solar.gwu.ed  u/Research /Sturtevant_S-REIT.pdf)
Notwithstanding the substantial benefits of solar power, this renewable energy source remains underdeveloped,
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of some of the current financial incentives for large‐scale solar projects.
Advantage 1 – Warming

Warming is real, anthropogenic, causes extinction
Deibel 7 — International Relations @ Naval War College (Terry, "Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic of American Statecraft," Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today)

Finally, there is one major existential threat to American security (as well as
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States, but potentially to the continued existence of life on this planet.  
Record summer melting proves we are on brink for runway warming.
Wenz ’12 (http://www.ecotecture.com/record-arctic-ice-melt-threatens-runaway-global-warming/)
There is news, and then there is news. As I write this in
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and we’ll explore its forbidding landscape in forthcoming columns at our ecological house.

Not too late to avoid worst warming impacts
Pew Center 11
(Pew Center on Global Climate Change,  The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
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Change 101: Understanding and Responding to Global Climate Change,” January 2011)
The GHGs that are already in the atmosphere because of human activity will continue to
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and of adaptation, and will dramatically reduce the probability of catastrophic outcomes. 

CSP is key to solving global warming
Wolf ’10 (http://www.cleanhouston.org/energy/features/tech_promise.htm)
Advances and breakthroughs in technology this year range from energy efficiency with plug-in
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and preserve the health and beauty of this planet for the next generation.
Spillover and US leadership in CSP is key to solving global warming
Sunstein ‘12 (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/opinion/sunday/climate-change-lessons-from-ronald-reagan.html?_r=0) (Cass R. Sunstein is a professor at Harvard Law School and a former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs)
THE re-election of President Obama, preceded by the extraordinary damage done by
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. The big question now is whether today’s Republicans will follow Reagan’s example. 

Advantage 2 – Blowback
Energy interests are the sole reason for US intervention in the Middle East
Institute for Foreign Policy Studies ’10 (http://www.ips.org.pk/international-relation/the-muslim-world/current-situation-in-the-middle-east-/1291-the-us-foreign-policy-and-the-middle-east.html)

Question: What are the American national interests, particularly in the Middle East, and what are the perceived and real challenges to them?
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That can only come about when a mass movement, independent of the two-party establishment, develops to challenge the ruling groups in American society.  
CSP can make America energy independent
ASPECKS ‘9 (http://aspecks.com/blog/eclectics/concentrated-solar-power-saves-the-world/)
The DESERTEC Concept was developed by a network of politicians, scientists and economists from around the Mediterranean, from which arose the DESERTEC Foundation. It demonstrates a way to provide climate protection, energy security and development by generating sustainable power from the sites where renewable sources of energy are at their most abundant.)
The Desertec Foundation was created to serve as a hub for the DESERTEC concept which
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USA could meet all its energy needs from its south-western states. 

No dependence means no occupation. Now, the harms.

US intervention in the Middle East has caused blowback, necessitating more violence to retain control
Johnson ’01 (http://www.thenation.com/article/blowback#)  (He earned a B.A. degree in Economics in 1953 and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science in 1957 and 1961 respectively. Both of his advanced degrees were from the University of California, Berkelee Johnson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976 and Chair of the Political Science Department at Berkeley, and held a number of important academic posts in area studies)
For Americans who can bear to think about it, those tragic pictures from New
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the Reagan years the worst decade for Central America since the Spanish conquest. 

US military occupation has caused environmental destruction, major health issues
Al-Azzawi ’08 (http://www.brusselstribunal.org/pdf/DU-Azzawi2.pdf) (Al-Azzawu is a associate professor of Environmental Engineering
Military operations have resulted in the following environmental damages: Nitrogen, Sulfur, Carbon
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other cities as will be explained next section [9] [10]. 

US military occupation has directly caused numerous human rights violations, especially against children
Al-Azzawi ‘10 (http://www.globalresearch.ca/violations-of-iraqi-children-s-rights/18205)
I pride myself in being a scientist and a researcher. I built my academic
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case study and the conclusions on the website of The BRussells Tribunal here.