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1) US coal consumption high
Quinn, National Mining Association President, 2012,
(Hal, “What's Really Causing Coal's Decline?", National Journal, 4-9, PAS) energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/whats-really-causing-coals-dec.php 9-26-12

Let’s start by … of gas prices. 

2) Coal absolutely key to US economy
Miller, ACCCE Media Relations Vice President, 2011,
(Lisa Camoose, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, "Five Ways Coal Can Help Our Economy", Behind the Plug Blog, 1-25, PAS) behindtheplug.americaspower.org/2011/01/five-ways-coal-can-help-our-economy.html 9-26-12 

The State of the …air quality standards.

US economic decline causes global economic decline, war AND increases likelihood of terrorist attacks
Royal, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 10
(Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215, ldg)

Less intuitive is…to those views. 

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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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Oil prices are up on news of the jobs report
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 2, 2012
Oil price trims losses after US jobs data, http://www.jsonline.com/business/national/oil-prices-fall-amid-subdued-demand-after-stormb1a2872a0a124082962ca25fee1603bc-176907141.html

The price of … world's largest economy.

US declines In oil consumption cause speculators to value oil lower- tanks prices
Yetiv and Feld ‘7 (Steve and Lowell, Professor of political science at Old Dominion University and senior international oil markets analyst at the U.S. Energy Information Administration until March 2006, “America's Oil Market Power: The Unused Weapon Against Iran,” World Policy Journal, p. proquest

As is typical … or actual disruptions. 

Producing states are on the brink- low prices causes state collapse and global war
Hulbert 12 (Matthew Hulbert, B.A. in history and politics from Durham University and an Mphil in international relations from Cambridge University, Senior Researcher at the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He studies political risk in upstream oil and gas markets, previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, leading its work on energy security and political risk. Before that, he worked in the City of London as Senior Energy Analyst at Datamonitor, and headed up the Global Issues Desk at Control Risks Group in London and Washington, D.C. “The political perils of low oil prices,” July 9 2012, http://www.europeanenergyreview.eu/site/pagina.php?id=3796#artikel_3796, Accessed 9/15/12, mcmc

Oil prices have … entire energy stage.

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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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Unique Link—Water resources stable now—greater production risks collapse.
DWT 12—Davis Wright Tremaine is a national business and litigation law firm. “Water and Energy: A Zero Sum Game?” May 29th, 2012, http://www.energyenvironmentallaw.com/2012/05/29/water-and-energy-a-zero-sum-game/Water and Energy: A Zero Sum Game?, Accessed date: 9-9-12 y2k

Energy production from … a future blog.

AND- Plan causes negative trade-off of water resources.
Hussey and Pittock 12—Karen Hussey is Senior Lecturer @ Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. Jamie Pittock is the Leader of Australia and United States–Climate, Energy and Water, US Studies Centre, Sydney. “The Energy–Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future” http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss1/art31/ accessed date: 7-22-12 y2k

Separately, water and … technologies are also examples (see Opperman et al. 2011, Pittock 2011, Stillwell et al. 2011

Extinction
Voinov and Cardwell 9—Alexey is Fellow @ Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers. Hal Cardwell , International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). “The Energy-Water Nexus: Why Should We Care?” Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, Issue 143, pages 17-29, December 2009. http://www.uvm.edu/giee/publications/Voinov_Energy_2009.pdf accessed date: 7-22-12 y2k

Water and energy … allowed to work

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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 affirmatives discursive call to energy production is rooted in a species-centric ethics that is embedded within the idea of “human exceptionalism,” that humans are special and apart from nature, allowing for the continued dismissal of the inter-connectedness between humans and nature in favor of the consumption and destruction of the environment.

Goodman 2011 Benny Goodman is a professor at Plymouth University Transformation for health and sustainability: Dualism and Anthropocentrism. plymouth.academia.edu/bennygoodman /Papers/677349/ Transformation_for_health_and_sustainability_Dualism_and_Anthropocentrism

 This ontological position r….buying stuff.

Speciesist discourse creates the radical othering of non-human animals reducing them to bare life.

Catlaw 2012 Thomas J. Catlaw is associate professor of public affairs at  the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University. Regarding the Animal On Biopolitics and the Limits of Humanism in Public Administration http://mesharpe.metapress.com/media/3pvxjjyxmn7wwcxwhkdr/contributions/v/3/2/8/v32838063kujg256.pdf

Speciesism, commodification, and --- hate, and eat (Herzog, 2010).

Bare life leads to unending violence and genocide against those deemed not politically worthy.
KOCHI and ORDAN 2K8 (Tarik Kochi is a professor at Queen’s University. Noam Ordan is a professor at Bar llan University)  “an argument for the global suicide of humanity”, vol 7. no. 4., bourderlands e-journal http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf

Within the picture …“an eternal Treblinka” (Singer, 1968, p.750).

Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to reject the ethical exceptionalism of the 1AC.

Rejecting the affirmative opens up the understanding of the species-being, allowing us to move beyond the religion of humanism.

HUDSON 2K4 Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf

We are all … politics and society?

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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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The aff’s apocalyptic environmentalism functions to place our moral energies on a market of commodification and exchange – this symbolic indebtedness saps the creative spirit through which real environmental change becomes possible.  
Shapiro 2011 Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist, an interdisciplinary thinker who studied science-technology at MIT and philosophy-history-literature at Cornell University, August 25th, 2011 Jean Baudrillard and Doomsday: On Louis Arnoux’s “Catastrophe Warning” Discourse,  http://www.alan-shapiro.com/baudrillard-and-doomsday-on-louis-arnoux%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ccatastrophe-warning%E2%80%9D-discourse/

Many commentators have … alcohol or drugs.

This requires a fundamental reorientation toward the illusion of the end – the apocalyptic end is truly illusionary and we must maintain this poetic and ironic distance to the chaos of the end to generate the communicative potential for change.
Shapiro 2011 Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist, an interdisciplinary thinker who studied science-technology at MIT and philosophy-history-literature at Cornell University, August 25th, 2011 Jean Baudrillard and Doomsday: On Louis Arnoux’s “Catastrophe Warning” Discourse,  http://www.alan-shapiro.com/baudrillard-and-doomsday-on-louis-arnoux%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ccatastrophe-warning%E2%80%9D-discourse/

Continuing on with … the true radical politics.

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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.