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> The SQ’s superfical promotion of either convential or sustainable
> technologies trades off with attempts to fully democratize energy
> consumption in a socially transformative way – the impact is the
> sacrifice of democracy for authoritarianism.
> Byrne et. al. 2006 (John, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and
> Director of Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at U. Delaware,
> “Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse,” 2006 //jcp)
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> Social values should be injected into the debate about energy –
> energy strategies that rely on the fossil fuel industry’s
> monopolization of energy politics sacrifice democratic ideals for pure
> profit. The impact is the unraveling and ultimate destruction of
> society.
> Byrne et. al. 2006 (John, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and
> Director of Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at U. Delaware,
> “Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse,” 2006 //jcp)
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> Neoliberalism makes capitalism unsustainable – rapid crashes become
> inevitable.
> Robert Hassan, Australian Research Council Fellow in media and
> communications at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne
> University of Technology, “Timescapes of the Network Society,” 2005,
> http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/1_1/hassan.html
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> Makes extinction inevitable.
> 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
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> Jon and I advocate that financial incentives should facilitate a
> distributed generation system.
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> Our advoacacy’s public intellectualism within the university
> interrogates undemocratic ideology.
> Giroux 11 (Henry A. Giroux, Global TV Network Chair in English and
> Cultural Studies at McMaster University, 21 November 2011, “Occupy
> Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals”,
> http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-colleges-now-students-new-public-intellectuals/1321891418)
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> The shift away from deliberation over the product of social policy
> creates a focus on process that re-establishes the neoliberal mindset.
> Oenen 06 (Gigs Van, a Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University
> (“A Machine that Would Go of Itself: Interpassivity and Its Impact on
> Political Life”; Theory and Event 9:2; 2006)//JCP
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