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Solar Securitization requires uniform federal energy policy to succeed- States balkanize energy policy which tanks solvency.
Chang 11 Ronald S. Borod, Esq., Partner, DLA Piper, LLP (U.S.); Keith Martin, Esq., Partner, Chadbourne and Parke LLP; John Joshi, Managing Director, CapitalFusion Partners; and Anadi Jauhari, Senior Managing Director, Emerging Energy and Environment LLC. “For Alternative Energy Securitization, Growth Will Require Clear And Consistent Government Policy” 2 Feb 2011.http://www.dlapiper.com/files/Publication/c90109ee-32b4-4df3-a0bd-49bf4f979c5e/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/19fe15bf-f12e-4cb2-8ebd-4bfb3d88d05c/SandP_Roundtable_article.pdf 

Standard and Poor’s: Let’s talk about an overarching theme in this sector: What
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prices falling as much as they have. The goal line moves farther away

States will cheat and dodge any uniform energy policy – business interests

Graham ’98 (Mary, Brookings Institute, “Environmental Protection and the States: ""Race to the Bottom"" or ""Race to the Bottom Line""?” Winter, http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/1998/12/winter-environment-graham, TGA)

To call attention to these changes is not to deny that state and local governments
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opportunities that affect farms and housing developments as well as forests and meadows.

EPCA means federal preemption tanks solvency

Gutkin ’11 (Sonia, Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School, “Federal Preemption Issues Remain Unresolved,” 7/14, http://californiagreenbuildingblog.com/2011/07/14/federal-preemption-issues-remain-unresolved/, TGA)

Federal law regulates energy use and efficiency of some specific products used in buildings.
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U.S.C. § 6297(c) (3))

Budget wrangling in California now – any spending dooms the state’s economy

LA Times ’12 (5/13, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/13/local/la-me-0513-state-deficit-20120513, TGA)

SACRAMENTO — California's projected budget deficit has ballooned to $16 billion, much larger
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needs voters to pair cuts with revenues," he said in a statement.

Collapses the economy
Navarro 08, Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University
(Peter, 8-15, "California nightmare for the global economy?," http:// www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/California-nightmare-for-the-global-economy3273234.php, 7/11/12, AH)

Will the California budget crisis tip the United States into recession? The California economy
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noting that California provides close to 13 percent of America's real GDP growth.

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1. Visa’s not key to reverse brain drain
   Wadhwa 9
   Vivek Wadhwa, executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, Spring 2009, “A Reverse Brain Drain,” Issues in Science and Technology, http://www.issues.org/25.3/wadhwa.html

To our surprise, visa status was not the most important factor determining their decision
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opportunities to launch their own business were significantly better in their home countries.

Obama already pushing anti-climate change, should trigger your link argument independent of the plan.
Guterl, 2-12
(Fred. Executive editor of Scientific American. “Obama Takes Aim at Climate Change, Cyber Security.” February 12, 2013. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/02/12/obama-takes-aim-at-climate-change-cyber-security/ Accessed: 2/21/13)

After a campaign that avoided climate change like the plague, President Barack Obama gave
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plays a big role.
 

2. Immigration Bill inevitable – Obama will use an XO.

Lillis, 2-16
(Mike. “Dems: Obama can act unilaterally on immigration reform.” February 16, 2013. http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/administration/283583-dems-recognize-that-obama-can-act-unilaterally-on-immigration-reform#ixzz2LVwQG0S6 Accessed: 2/21/13)

While the Democrats are hoping Congress will preclude any executive action by
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measures to enact common-sense executive orders to move this country forward."

3. Plan popular
Cardwell 13 Diane Cardwell is a Business Day reporter for The New York Times covering energy. She was previously a Metro columnist for The Times, writing The Appraisal, about residential real estate, and At the Table, about restaurants. Ms. Cardwell came to The Times in 1995 as a staff editor for the Sunday magazine overseeing arts and entertainment and has been a reporter since 2000. She has covered crime, local and national politics, the borough of Brooklyn and the New York hospitality industry. She was City Hall bureau chief from 2006 to 2008, when she took a year-long leave to complete a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. There, she studied urban planning, digital media and fine art photography.  JANUARY 30, 2013 “Renewable Energy Industries Push for New Financing Options” http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/renewable-energy-industries-push-for-new-financing-options/
“If we can get access to these long-term capital-formation strategies
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-you, and the free market can play more of a role.”

4. Winners win and PC not key.
Hirsh 2/7/13 (Michael, Chief correspondent for National Journal, Previously served as the senior editor and national economics correspondent for Newsweek, Overseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 and for Newsweek’s coverage of the war on terror which also won a National Magazine Award, There’s No Such Thing as Political Capital, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/there-s-no-such-thing-as-political-capital-20130207)

But the abrupt emergence of the immigration and gun control issues illustrates how suddenly shifts
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change positions to get on the winning side. It’s a bandwagon effect.”

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CP is normal means – all agencies must assess actions in accordance with the NEPA

Wexler 8 (Lesley, Professor of Law – Florida State University and Former Debater – University of Michigan, “Human Rights Impact Assessments: An Immigration Case Study”, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 22 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 285, Winter, Lexis, sbl)
Under the National Environmental Protection Act of 1969, federal agencies *297 must
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adverse environmental impact or that would limit the choice of reasonable alternatives. n104

EIA process guts solvency (and business confidence) - causes delays, lawsuits, and stops projects

Bhatia and Wernham 8 (Rajiv, MD, MPH, Director of Occupational and Environmental Health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and Aaron, M.D., director of the Health Impact Project, “Integrating human health into environmental impact assessment: an unrealized opportunity for environmental health and justice”, Environ Health Perspect 116:991–1000, cs)

Despite over three decades of practice, some criticize the process of EIA as a
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process, and d) a more integrated consideration of biophysical and social impacts 

Review takes several years and can cost millions

Cole et al 4 (Brian L., DrPH, Project Manager, Health Impact Assessment Group, UCLA School of Public Health, “Prospects for Health Impact Assessment in the United States”, http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/prospects_for_hia_in_the_u.s.040601.pdf, Acc: 7/23/12, og)
The preparation of an EIS can be extremely time consuming and resource intensive (ibid
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in the tens of millions of dollars for very complex or controversial projects.

HIAs can cost $100,000 and takes months

Hodge et al 12 James G., Director, Public Health Law and Policy Program- Jr., Erin C. Fuse Brown, Megan Scanlon, Alicia Corbett, “Legal Review Concerning the  Use of Health Impact Assessments in Non-Health Sectors”, Apr 4, http://www.pewhealth.org/reports-analysis/reports/legal-review-concerning-the-use-of-health-impact-assessments-in-non-health-sectors-85899380075, Acc: 7/21/12, cs

The cost and financing of HIAs are not the primary foci of this report,
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, it may be necessary for practitioners to find other means of support.

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Evaluate consequences – allowing violence for the sake of moral purity is evil
Isaac 2 (Jeffrey C., Professor of Political Science – Indiana-Bloomington, Director – Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life, Ph.D. – Yale, Dissent Magazine, 49(2), “Ends, Means, and Politics”, Spring, Proquest)

As writers such as Niccolo Machiavelli, Max Weber, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah
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not true believers. It promotes arrogance. And it undermines political effectiveness.

You should prioritize questions of epistemology---in the context of economics the knowledge-production process is more important than the outcomes
Anderson 89 Thomas, Libertarian Alliance, "Economics and Knowledge" Economic Notes No. 21 www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn021.pdf
Before there can be a substantial or meaningful advance of knowledge in any discipline,
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to be outside the realm of the average student, citizen or voter.
Continued… A sound theory of knowledge is the only path leading to the rescue
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remember to trace back, isolate, present and check your fundamental premises.

The Negative forecloses the ability of capitalist markets and human ingenuity to solve the impacts they invoke---fatal conceit in the context of energy policy makes their impacts inevitable and cause policy failure
Robinson 8 Colin, Institute of Economic Affairs “Climate Change Policy: Challenging the Activists,” http://www.iea.org.uk/files/upld-book440pdf?.pdf
There is, however, more to the apocalyptic forecast than that because it always
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programmes, taxes or sometimes ‘market instruments’ (of which more later).
But there is a serious problem with the view that centralised action, via governments
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suppresses the information that planners would need if they were to operate successfully.
The second problem is that, even if the information were avail- able,
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and disinterested and will simply identify and then pursue the ‘public good’.
By contrast, the market system is essentially a massive problem- solving mechanism.
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years, they were still lower in real terms than in 1980.3 

This is an a priori voting issue---sound economic epistemology is key to the efficacy of all social and political praxes---accesses every impact.
Reisman 96 George, Pepperdine University Professor Emeritus of Economics, Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics, http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/Economics%20and%20Capitalism.htm

In the absence of a widespread, serious understanding of the principles of economics,
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view of some observers, is actually in the process of doing so.
Thus, the importance of economics consists in the fact that ultimately our entire modern
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be unable to survive in the absence of Western food and medical supplies.

Root cause is a logical fallacy
Larrivee, PhD econ – U Wisconsin, ‘10
(John, http://www.teacheconomicfreedom.org/files/larrivee-paper-1.pdf)

 The Second Focal Point: Moral, Social, and Cultural Issues of Capitalism
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problems in the first place, at least not to the degree theorized. 

Transition causes extinction
Kothari, profrssor of political science – University of Delhi, ‘82
(Rajni, Towards a Just Social Order, Alternatives, p. 571)

Attempts at global ...for eventual global holocaust.

Transition fails—causes war—consumption would reemerge even worse—try or die assessments are wrong
Monbiot, 9
George Monbiot, The Guardian, 2009, Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?, www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/17/environment-climate-change

I detect in your writings, and in the conversations we have had, an
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come out on the other side will be worse than our current settlement.
Here are three observations: 1 Our species (unlike most of its members) is tough and resilient; 2 When civilisations collapse, psychopaths take over; 3 We seldom learn from others' mistakes.
From the first observation, this follows: even if you are hardened to the
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and exploit almost every possible resource – in the absence of political restraint.
From the second and third observations, this follows: instead of gathering as free
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question – what will we learn from this collapse? – is nothing.

Cap key tech innovation solves extinction from low food production
Heaberlin 4(Scott W., led the Nuclear Safety and Technology Applications Product Line at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2004, A Case for Nuclear-Generated Electricity pg 45-6)

Cohen looked at all the various population estimates and concluded that most fell into the
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a road that can lead to a happier place, a better place. 

1. Turn – Collapsing neoliberalism results in increased corporate power
   Legrain 00 (Phillipe Legrain, special adviser to the WTO director general Mike Moore, 2000, The WTO: Boon or Bane for the Developing World, p. http://www.focusweb.org/publications/2000/The%20WTOThe%20WTO-Boon%20or%20Bane%20for%20the%20Developing%20World.htm)
   A convincing case for the WTO’s abolition must show two things. First, that
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   poorest South Koreans today are much richer than their counterparts 30 years ago. 

4. Alt fails, they will collapse
Taylor 94 (Jerry, Director of Natural Resource Studies – Cato Institute, “The Challenge of Sustainable Development”, Regulation, http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg17n1-taylor.html)
The free, competitive marketplace creates not only human capital but natural capital as well
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and eventually experience the very collapse feared by the proponents of sustainable development.

5. Alt causes transition wars
Harris 3 (Lee, Analyst – Hoover Institution and Author of The Suicide of Reason, “The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing”, Policy Review, January, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3458371.html)
This is the immiserization thesis of Marx. And it is central to revolutionary Marxism
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the social order and all socialist schemes would be reduced to pipe dreams.

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Economic decline triggers food insecurity, worse environmental destruction and transition will fail.  Growth empirically drives environmental and social improvements.
Mead, 12 --- Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College (7/28/2012, Walter Russell, “The Energy Revolution 4: Hot Planet?” http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/07/28/the-energy-revolution-4-hot-planet/, JMP)
A world that is more relaxed about the security of its energy sources is going
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gripped in a permanent economic crisis of scarcity simply can’t and won’t do. 

Growth is infinite and sustainable.
Daniel Ben-Ami, journalist/author specializing in economics, editor of Fund Strategy,11/7/2010, “Response to Tim Jackson,” http://danielbenami.com/2010/11/07/response-to-tim-jackson/

• He fails to take up the central point of my introduction: that human
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  Jackson. More generally it is what separates classical humanism from green thinking.

Growth is sustainable and solves resource depletion
Emerson 10 (Patrick, Associate Professor of Economics – Oregon State University, “Economic Growth: The Planet's Poor Need Sustainable Expansion,” Oregon Live, 8-7, http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/08/economic_growth_the_planets_po.html)
Does economic growth represent the biggest threat to the planet, or its salvation?
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, because our wealth causes us to place increased value on the environment.