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China Is Leading In Alternative Energy In The Status Quo  
BBC 11. James Melik, China leads world in green energy investment, BBC News, Sept. 15, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14201939

Alternative energy is at the core of China’s soft power strategy
Mark L. Clifford is the executive director of the Asia Business Council, 01.21.2011, http://english.caixin.com/2011-01-21/100219608_all.html

U.S. Leadership In Alternative Energy Trades Off With Chinese Leadership 

Wong, 2009:
(Julian L, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, “Ensuring and Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness While Moving Toward a Clean-Energy Economy”, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/wong_testimony.html/, Acc: 8/2/12, og)

Loss of Soft Power Triggers A Return To Hard Power, Causing An Expansionist Military Policy

Pan 2006:
(Esther Pan, Council on Foreign Relations, June 2, 2006 http://www.cfr.org/publication/10824/)

The Resulting Arms Race Escalates To Global Nuclear War
Fuerth 2001(Leon Fuerth is the Shapiro Visiting Professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University, “Return of the Nuclear Debate”, The Washington Quarterly, Autumn 2001, pg. 97)

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Text: The National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Governors Association should commit to substantially increase necessary production tax credits for wind power facilities placed in service in the United States after December 31, 2012.

The counterplan solves, creating collective action by states Sends a unique global federalist signal. Disproves their generic theory args.
Resnick and Liman 08 Judith Resnik is Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Founding Director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest ProgramWhy the Local Matters: Federalism, Localism, and Public Interest Advocacy Papers from the Eleventh Annual Liman Colloquium at Yale Law School, 2008 http://www.law.yale.edu/why_the_local_matters_final_122109.pdf
Having sketched some of the continuities over the centuries that localities have played in U.S. lawmaking, I turn to newer iterations of what I have termed “federalism(s)”—to capture the variations within the construct of “federalism.” Above, I cited a policy on climate change that was adopted by an entity called the U.S. Conference of Mayors. That organization, founded in 1933, 50 is one of
Secessionist movements are inevitable. Must avoid escalation to civil wars
Defne 12 Ezgi, Defne, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science New York University Abu Dhabi, Making Secession Possible: Federalism as a Capacity Building Instrument, files.nyu.edu/de339/public/Ezgi%20Job%20Market%20Paper.pdf, 6/20/2012
A thorough exploration of secessionist movements can enable us to better manage them when they do emerge and make informed
Failed states cause multiple scenarios for extinction, turn case
Myers and Choi 06 12/12/2006, “Terrorism, Failed States, and Enlightened National Interest”, Young-Jin Choi is the permanent representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, and Joanne Myers is Director of the Carnegie Council's Public Affairs Programs
The question arises now: Can we turn a blind eye to those failed states? The interdependence works both ways. It works between
Counterplan gives secessionist movements key guidance, encouraging federalism and preventing quick fragmentation of national governments
Defne 12 Ezgi, Defne, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science New York University Abu Dhabi, Making Secession Possible: Federalism as a Capacity Building Instrument, files.nyu.edu/de339/public/Ezgi%20Job%20Market%20Paper.pdf, 6/20/2012

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Tensions Over The Arab Spring Have Put Saudi Relations On The Brink

AP, 2011:  
(“Mideast upheavals open doors for Saudi strategies,” Associated Press, 8/13/11, < http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-08-13-saudi-arabia-middle-east-strategy_n.htm>
Investments in alternative energy will trade off with investments in oil.
Blakeway 8 (Darrell, RedOrbit, " Energy Autonomy: Getting Serious About Renewable Energy." May, http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1390122/energy_autonomy_getting_serious_about_renewable_energy/  AD 7/5/11) AV

Energy independence kills US-Saudi relations.
Forbes 9/11, “Saudi Oil Snub: Don't Take Riyadh For Granted Mr. President” by Matthew Hulbert 9/11/12, <http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/09/11/saudi-oil-snub-dont-take-riyadh-for-granted-mr-president/print/>
Collapse Of Relations Causes Saudi Nuclearization

McDowell, 2003
[Steven , Lt, US navy, “Is Saudi Arabia a Nuclear Threat?” Naval Postgrad Thesis, November http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/theses/McDowell03.pdf]
Saudi Arabia, with its vast oil reserves and seemingly endless financial resources may become the next country to purchase nuclear weapons. It is situated in the Persian Gulf, a region that as of 1998 contained the most active efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and the highest rate of weapons proliferation in the world.1 Among the major proliferating Gulf States are Iran and Iraq, two states that have posed considerable threats to the Saudi regime
Saudi wildfire prolif leads to nuclear war, multiple warrants.
Edelman, et al., 2011:
(Eric, Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and Former Undersecretary for Defense, Andrew Krepinevich, President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and Evan Montgomery, Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, “The dangers of a nuclear Iran,” FA 90;1,http://www.csbaonlin...uclear-Iran.pdf)