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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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … IS NOW POSSIBLE.

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The debate over nuclear energy is a debate about memory – the nuclear industry relies on a narrative of technological progress that calls on us to forget the trauma of the past in favor of the bright future promised by nuclear energy.  
Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The shock and …forgetting our past. 

However, the dominant narrative of nuclear energy can and is being challenged – one alternative source of memory about nuclear violence comes from the poetic praxis of the Japanese band Frying Dutchman:
Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

The resistance didn’t … of nuclear power. 

The task of your ballot should be to join in this struggle of memory against forgetting – your ballot can contribute to the discursive mosaic of resistance surrounding the memory of nuclear violence. Each act of remembering is key to bringing about an inter-connected struggle to reclaim the nuclear public sphere.
Hayase 12 Nozomi Hayase,” Fukushima to #Ajisai Revolution; The Mosaic of Recollection”  JOURNALING BETWEEN WORLDS Global Citizen Blogging July 18, 2012, http://nozomimagine.com/2012/07/18/

This mosaic is … has just begun. 

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Both the aff’s policy and their knowledge production work to further the logic of consumerist society – only breaking with this logic allows us to challenge the consumerist ideology that is destroying the earth and creating massive inequality around the world.
Princen et al 2002 Thomas Princen, Associate Professor U of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment,  Michael Maniates, Michael Maniates Professor of Environmental Science and Political Science Allegheny College Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Ken Conca, Professor School of International Service, American University, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sc.B., Brown University Confronting Consumption, 2002,  mcmc,  p. 4-14
Such intuition is … loses in the process? 

Consumerist society requires massive, never-ending production which will lead to inevitable environmental catastrophe.
Wachter 2012  Petra Wa¨chter Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Review of   The ecological rift – capitalism’s war on the Earth, by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, New York, Monthly Review Press, 2010, Environmental Politics 21:3, 533-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2012.671611
The ecological rift …destroying the Earth. 

Alt: Decreased consumption comes through increased simplicity which is ultimately key to value to life.
Trainer 2007 Ted Trainer, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales July 25 2011,  Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society, T. Trainer, Springer, 2007, 137

Given that the … but rich in ends.” 

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The cultural turn evoked by “post-strategies” attempts to break part any material analysis through the use of discursive analysis – despite their attempts to incorporate materialism it remains culturalist and stuck within the paradigm of capitalism.
Ebert and Zavarzadeh in 2008(Teresa L., English, State University of New York, Albany, Mas’ud, prolific writer and expert on class ideology, “Class in Culture”, p. 27-29)
On the theoretical …to look "outside."

Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it … otherwise sound matrix. 

The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism – historical materialism links social praxis to a decisive judgment on capitalist oppression.
Lukacs in 67 (George, Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, History and Class Consciousness) 224-225
Historical materialism has--- could act accordingly. 

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Executive orders are the most effective way to implement policies
Mayer 1 (Kenneth, Professor of Political Science @ University of Wisconsin – Madison, With the Stroke of a Pen)

These chronicles of …many cases disturbing.”

Executive orders increase presidential power
Risen 4 (Clay, Managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, M.A. from the University of Chicago “The Power of the Pen: The Not-So-Secret Weapon of Congress-wary Presidents” The American Prospect, July 16, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_of_the_pen)

In the modern …to reproductive health. 

Pres powers key to strong U.S Leadership
Mallaby 00 (Sebastian, Member, Washington Post’s Editorial Board, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb)

Finally, some will …isolationism or multiculturalism. 

Power projection prevents multiple scenarios for nuclear war
Kagan 2007
Robert, Carnegie Senior Associate, “End of Dreams, Return of History” Policy Review, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html#n10jap

This is a good … an easier path.