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Plan contributes to the capitalist drive for energy – inevitably leads to planetary extinction.
Charman 2010 Karen Charman, Managing editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, M.A. Journalism, Columbia University, “Trashing the Planet for Natural Gas: Shale Gas Development Threatens Freshwater Sources, Likely Escalates Climate Destabilization” Capitalism Nature Socialism,  21:4 December 2010, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10455752.2010.531929. Mcmc

As the large, easy reservoirs of  AND make the earth uninhabitable for life as we know it.

Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol AND that of a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.

The alternative is to reject the affirmative as an intellectual refusal of capitalist ideology
Johnston 2004, Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004 Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac

Perhaps the absence of a detailed  AND  deceptively comforting fiction ("Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism").

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Obama will win – key states
LOBE  9 – 8 – 12  Washington Bureau Chief of the international news agency Inter Press Service (IPS), JD Berkeley [Jim Lobe, U.S.: Advantage Obama As Election Begins in Earnest, http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/u-s-advantage-obama-as-election-begins-in-earnest/]

Despite persistent high levels of unemployment
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U.S. military in his nomination acceptance speech in Tampa was widely criticised, even by fellow-Republicans.

Wind warriors are mobilizing – Obama wind investment key to the election
Goldberg 12 [Suzanne Goldenberg US environment correspondent, May 8th, Conservative thinktanks step up attacks against Obama's clean energy strategy, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/08/conservative-thinktanks-obama-energy-plans]jap

A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts
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almost THE issue," she said. "It's going to be huge."

Romney will undermine Russia relations
LARISON  6 – 27 – 12  Columnist for the American Conservative  [Daniel Larison “U.S.-Russian Relations Would Get Much Worse Under Romney” http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/u-s-russian-relations-would-get-much-worse-under-romney/]

Putin doesn’t actually want a “hard-line conservative in the White House.”
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Russian relations will deteriorate much more than they have in the last year.

Nuclear war – Terrorism, Prolif, multiple hotspots
ALLISON  11  Director @ Belfer Center for Science and Int’l Affairs @ Harvard’s Kennedy School, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Robert D. Blackwill, Senior Fellow – Council on Foreign Relations   [Graham Allison, “10 Reasons Why Russia Still Matters”, Politico -- October 31 -- http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=161EF282-72F9-4D48-8B9C-C5B3396CA0E6]

That central point is that Russia matters a great deal to a U.S
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Tehran to joining China in preventing U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Adequate funding exists for environmental and security responsibilities but most hold the line on spending
EPA 2012
[“EPA’s FY 2013 Budget Proposal Focuses on Core Environmental and Human Health Protections / EPA budget supports President Obama’s vision of an America that is built to last” http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/D38E604EF465557A852579A3005F4630] IK

WASHINGTON – Today the Obama Administration proposed a FY 2013 budget of $8.
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of this agency and ensured the protections the American people expect and deserve.” 

Enforcement of energy regulations drains EPA resources and forces budget trade-offs
OECD 2000
[January 2000, OECD is an International organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy, “Voluntary approaches for Environmental Policy: An Assessment”, http://books.google.com/books?id=rIoDuRBzf-0Candpg=PA31andlpg=PA31anddq=.+As+a+result,+public+authorities+can+demonstrate+to+public+opinion+that+they+are+able+to+diligently+undertakeandsource=blandots=po8_xqiSKgandsig=0NGGnZDAnR1lDhVacLwneW5Mf8oandhl=enandsa=Xandei=VfoWUITzKMqe6wGHoIG4DQandved=0CF4Q6AEwAA#v=onepageandq=.%20As%20a%20result%2C%20public%20authorities%20can%20demonstrate%20to%20public%20opinion%20that%20they%20are%20able%20to%20diligently%20undertakeandf=false] IK

Voluntary approaches may be attractive for the legislator (or the regulator) which pursues
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used for other tasks of the agency such as monitoring of other policies. 

Cuts come from water safety
Crow 2012
[Patrick Crow is a Washington Correspondent, “Congress Trims State Revolving Funds, EPA Budget, http://web.ebscohost.com.mutex.gmu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=29andhid=112andsid=15b4a8da-9190-4985-a9a2-53ee277a3033%40sessionmgr104] IK

The Senate and House of Representatives have approved spending bills that would cut the Clean
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initially had proposed a $1.5 billion spending cut for the agency 

Water supplies are a prime target for bioterror attack
Greenwire 2008
[“Cincinati pilot program looks to protect water from terrorists,” http://www.eenews.net.proxy.lib.umich.edu/Greenwire/2008/05/27/archive/14?terms=EPA+security]  IK

A U.S. EPA program would help water utilities get earlier warning of
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. Three other cities to be announced this year will receive similar grants. 

Extinction
Ochs 2002
[Richard, analyst for the chemical weapons working group, “Biological Weapons must be abolished immediately”,  ,  http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html] IK

Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the genetically engineered biological weapons, many
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Can we imagine hundreds of such plagues? HUMAN EXTINCTION IS NOW POSSIBLE.

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Text: The fifty states of America and all relevant localities and territories, should establish a transferable production tax credit available to American Indian tribes for wind energy projects.  
. 

The counterplan solves the entirety of the case – states have the ability and precedent to act  
Wiener, Program Evaluation Analyst, and Koontz, Ohio State Associate Natural Resources Professor, 2010,
(Joshua and Tomas, "Shifting Winds: Explaining Variation in State Policies to Promote Small-Scale Wind Energy", Policy Studies Journal, November, Vol. 38, Iss. 4, PAS) Accessed on ProQuest 8-6-12 

Utility-scale wind installations have drawn media attention primarily due to their ability to
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see Devine-Wright [2005] for a review of existing research).

Federalism is strong now – healthcare
Bolick, Hoover Institution Research Fellow, 2012,
(Clint, "The Supreme Court Stakes in 2012", Hoover Institution, Wall Street Journal, 7-10, PAS) www.hoover.org/news/daily-report/122156 9-20-12 

By holding the line in June,
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been erased during the New Deal.

Federal Energy policy is expansive and dictates policy to the states
Zelnak, ZP Enterprises Chairman, 2012,
(Steve, Job Creators Alliance Member, Martin Marietta Materials Board of Directors, "Out-of-Control EPA Is Hurting the Economy", US News, 6-1, PAS) www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/06/01/the-epa-is-not-the-fourth-branch-of-government 9-20-12 

Instead, the focus of the Environmental Protection Agency is to eliminate coal as a
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environmental nongovernmental organizations s to define and rule our everyday lives and livelihood.¶ 

The link is zero-sum – any increase in federal power trades off with the states
Lee, (former Solicitor General), 1996, (Rex, Brigham Young University Law Review, Pg. 369)

Thus, though the state circle of power is large
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– is correspondingly diminished.

Impact is global war --- U.S. federalism is modeled worldwide, solving conflict
Calabresi ’95 (Steven G., Assistant Prof – Northwestern U., Michigan Law Review, Lexis)

First, the rules of constitutional federalism should be enforced because federalism is a good
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legal academy would wake up to the importance of what is at stake.

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Prices are teetering at 91 a barrel.
Kumar and Kollmeyer 9/20/12 V. Phani Kumar and Barbara Kollmeyer, “Oil prices straddle $91 after China data,” MarketWatch http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oil-futures-slide-further-test-91-a-barrel-2012-09-20?link=MW_latest_news, Accessed 9/20/12, mcmc

Crude-oil futures were straddling the $91-a-barrel mark in
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month crude-oil futures have slumped nearly 8% just this week.

Nuclear power decreases oil prices by replacing fuel for public transportation and ships and causes transition to hydrogen and synthetic fuels.
ANS 2012; American Nuclear Society, Top 10 Myths about Nuclear Energy, http://www.new.ans.org/pi/resources/myths/, Accessed 9/16/12, mcmc

Myth # 10: Nuclear energy can't reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Nuclear
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oil by producing hydrogen for use in fuel cells and synthetic liquid fuels.

High oil prices key to Saudi Arabian social spending – checks broader Middle East instability
Peel and Blas 11 Michael Peel, Javier Blas, writers, “Saudi budget could require high oil price”, 3/31/11, Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/87d60044-5bbb-11e0-b8e7-00144feab49a.html#axzz20zLPp2yl, Accessed 9/16/12, mcmc

Saudi Arabia could need the oil price to average more than $100 a barrel
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to satisfy activists who were angry that the package did not include reforms.

Middle Eastern instability causes nuclear, chemical, and biological war.
Blake 11 Hedi Blake, 2/2/11 Telegraph, Wikileaks: tension in the Middle East and Asia has direct potential to lead to nuclear war,” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8298427/WikiLeaks-tension-in-the-Middle-East-and-Asia-has-direct-potential-to-lead-to-nuclear-war.html,  Accessed 9/17/12, mcmc

Tension in the Middle East and Asia has given rise to an escalating atomic arms
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nervous system in under a minute if inhaled or absorbed through the skin. 

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Text: The United States federal government should establish a Private Finance Initiative to design, finance and build small modular reactors nuclear technology for the United States military.  The initiative should guarantee a 30 year contract for operation and maintenance expenses.   

A Private Finance Incentive is distinct from procurement and solves better
Dixon et al. 5—Chair in Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment @ University of Reading [Dr. Timothy Dixon, Gaye Pottinger (Senior Research Officer in the College of Estate Management @ University of Reading), Alan Jordan (Lecturer in the College of Estate Management @ University of Reading), “Lessons from the private finance initiative in the UK: Benefits, problems and critical success factors,” Journal of Property Investment and Finance 23. 5 (2005): 412-423]

Originally conceived as a means of reducing government borrowing and increasing investment in public infrastructure
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to avoid many of the problems normally associated with conventional public sector procurement.

We solve without busting the budget
Chang et al. 99 [Ike Y. Chang, Steven Galing, Carolyn Wong, Howell Yee, Elliot I. Axelband, Mark Onesi and Kenneth R Horn, “Use of Public-Private Partnerships to Meet Future Army Needs,” Rand Corporation, Prepared for the United States Army by RAND's Arroyo, 1999

Access to Capital
Access to capital often means access to financing.
the funding of dual-use research. 5 pg. 14-15