Tournament: CSUN | Round: 4 | Opponent: Fresno MR | Judge: 

The affirmative approaches the ecological crisis in a form of instrumentalism

Plumwood, 2002(Val, William M Adams and Martin Mulligan, Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial, “Decolonizing relationships with nature” 59) GG

In anthropocentric ...... for human projects.

Increased energy production creates standing reserves of energy sources – the plan exacerbates the damage being done

Tad Beckman 2000 (http:~/~/www2.hmc.edu/~~tbeckman/personal/html(%%) Harvey Mudd College Claremont California Professor of Philosophy Humanities and Social Sciences)

The essence of ...... human design. (8)http://www2.hmc.edu/~~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html#N_8_

The assumption that there is on static objective reality is what allows the worst forms of oppression

Plumwood,  Australian research council fellow at the University of Sydney, environmental activist, pioneer of eviromental philosophy,2002 (Val, Environmental Culture: The ecological crisis of reason, 20-21) GG

Reason so conceived....maximising productivism.

Therefore the alternative is to reject western hegemonic forms of rationalism and a embrace a biospheric alternative

Plumwood, 2002(Val, William M Adams and Martin Mulligan, Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-colonial, “Decolonizing relationships with nature” 59-60) GG

The injustice of .... and enabling presences.

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 4 | Opponent: Fresno MR | Judge: 

Wind energy destroys migratory bat species

Kunz et al 7 (Thomas H., Professor of Biology, and Director, Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, PhD, University of Kansas, “Ecological impacts of wind energy development on bats: questions, research needs, and hypotheses”, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 315–324, ebsco, og)

Relatively small .... among the fatalities.

Wind turbines will eliminate bats species

Boyles et al 11 (Justin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Zoology and Entomology, university of Pretoria, “Economic Importance of Bats in Agriculture”, http:~/~/xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/16441323/226771198/name/Economic_Importance_of_Bats_in_pdf, Acc: 7/31/12, og)

At the same time.... affecting mammals.

All species deserve to exist – ethical side constraint

Earth’s tree news 7 (Livejournal, 206 edition http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:tOuV0Sbbt3YJ:olyecology.livejournal.com/54410.html+biodiversity+%22Invisible+threshold%22andhl=enandct=clnkandcd=8andgl=us)

We lived in .....up the mountain.

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 4 | Opponent: Fresno MR | Judge: 

The United States Supreme Court should rule that the restrictions in the United States that disproportionately affect expansion of wind are unconstitutional

Courts defer to preemption and the executive branch now – new ruling is key to environmental federalism

Engel 2006 – Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (Kirsten H. “FILLING THE GAPS? ARTICLE: HARNESSING THE BENEFITS OF DYNAMIC FEDERALISM IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW,” 56 Emory L.J. 159)

The disconnect.... environmental law." n77

Agency deference destroys efficient production – stable legal interpretation is key to industry innovation

Buzbee 2010 – Professor of Law, Emory Law School; Director of Emory Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program; Director of Emory Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance (William, New Directions in Environmental Law: Clean Air Act Dynamism and Disappointments: Lessons for Climate Legislation to Prompt Innovation and Discourage Inertia, 32 Wash. U. J.L. and Pol'y 33, Lexis)

If an environmental law.....established modes of action.

Environmental federalism is key to grid decentralization, solves attacks

Ferrey 2004 – Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School (SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, AND STATES' RIGHTS: DISCERNING THE ENERGY FUTURE THROUGH THE EYE OF THE DORMANT COMMERCE CLAUSE, 12 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 507, Lexis)

We are embarked ..... sustainable base.

Attack at an energy grid would crush our critical infrastructure and escalate to nuclear war

Habiger, 2/1/2010 (Eugue – Retired Air Force General, Cyberwarfare and Cyberterrorism, The Cyber Security Institute, p. 13-15)

There is strong ........... war.

Tournament: CSUN | Round: 4 | Opponent: Fresno MR | Judge: 

Colonialism turn

Colonial/Coloniality are not the same as colonialism, coloniality refers to cultural, political, sexual and economicoppression/explotation

Grosfoguel, Professor of Diversity Studies at UC Berkeley, 2011   

(Ramon, Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, pg.14, MR)

“Colonial” does.... military interventions.

Wind power is useless – only produces 25% of full capacity, increases blackouts and depends on conventional fuels

Boone 11 (Jon, PhD, Environmentalist, and Formal Intervenor in Wind Installation Hearings, “Oxymoronic Windpower”, http://www.masterresource.org/2011/01/wind-howlers-part-i/, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

Wind machines... modern power.

Wind can’t provide stable power

Boone 10 (Jon, PhD, Environmentalist, and Formal Intervenor in Wind Installation Hearings, “OVERBLOWN: Windpower on the Firing Line (Part I)”, http:~/~/www.masterresource.org/2010/09/org/2010/09/windpower-overblown-part-1, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

Consequently, wind... 5,000 MW.

No Solvency: Inefficiency

Wind power is hopeless – zero real-time capacity values and depends on conventional fuels

Boone 10 (Jon, PhD, Environmentalist, and Formal Intervenor in Wind Installation Hearings, “OVERBLOWN: Windpower on the Firing Line (Part I)”, http:~/~/www.masterresource.org/2010/09/org/2010/09/windpower-overblown-part-1, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

Unreliable wind....output of a conventional generator.

No Solvency: Climate Change

Wind can’t solve – climate change reduces wind capacity

Moriarty and Honnery 12 (Patrick, Department of Design, Monash University-Caulfield, Damon, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University-Clayton Campus, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 16, Issue 1, January, Pages 244–252, og) 

The potential for wind..... wind potential 38.

No Solvency: Emissions

At best, wind causes a dent in emissions

Bryce 11 (Robert, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, “THE HIGH COST OF WIND ENERGY AS A CARBON-DIOXIDE REDUCTION METHOD”, http:~/~/www.robertbryce.com/articles/390-html, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

How does that ....2 percent.32

Wind doesn’t reduce emissions – generation capacity can’t mitigate conventional fuels

Boone 5 (Jon, PhD, Environmentalist, and Formal Intervenor in Wind Installation Hearings, “DIRECT TESTIMONY OF JON BOONE BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND”, http://www.windaction.org/?module=uploadsandfunc=downloadandfileId=162, Acc: 8/2/12, og)

Wind only generates.... the problem.

Wind power only increases emissions – scientific consensus

Boone 10 (Jon, PhD, Environmentalist, and Formal Intervenor in Wind Installation Hearings, “OVERBLOWN: Windpower on the Firing Line (Part I)”, http:~/~/www.masterresource.org/2010/09/org/2010/09/windpower-overblown-part-1, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

Third, the National..... is unclear.

Wind power increases emissions – cycling inefficiency outweighs reduction

BENTEK 12 (BENTEK Energy is the leading energy markets information company, “How Less Became More”, http:~/~/docs.wind-watch.org/pdf, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

The study details.... been cycled.

Wind industry will thrive without PTC – eliminates uncertainty and inefficient players

Anderson 12 (Jared, Editor, AOL Energy, former Senior Analyst at Energy Intelligence Group, “Wind Sector Considers Life Without the PTC”, http:~/~/energy.aol.com/2012/06/25/wind-sector-considers-life-without-the-ptc/http://energy.aol.com/2012/06/25/wind-sector-considers-life-without-the-ptc/, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

Wind power's competiveness ..... said Gaynor.