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Coal is thriving – no more potential for gas to grow plus international demand
Matthew Philips, Bloomberg Businessweek, 4/26/2012, "Coal's Future Is Rocky at Best," www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-26/coals-future-is-rocky-at-best
Not everyone believes coal is finished. Analysts at FBR Capital Markets, a Virginia-… “Coal is far from dead.” The question is whether it’s mortally wounded.

Nuclear power trades off with coal
Blees 12 (Tom Blees, president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum, “Nuclear Roads Not Taken (Yet) in Germany, Japan and the US,” 5/31/12, http://theenergycollective.com/barrybrook/86298/roads-not-taken-yet)
This state of affairs would …enabling semi-arid and even arid regions to bloom.

Coal production key to strength of railroad industry – vulnerable now
Liam Denning, WSJ, 3/16/2012, "Railroads Struggle at the Coal Face," online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303863404577285382160837836.html
Railroads are still beholden to coal, … close by 2015, equivalent to 106 million tons of annual coal demand, or 10%.

Strong commercial railroads key to readiness
Robert S. Korpanty is a licensed professional engineer employed by the Military Traffic Management Command Transportation Engineering Agency in Newport News, Virginia, December 1999, "Preserving Strategic Rail Mobility," www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/NovDec99/MS455.htm
Tell any mechanized maneuver commander … installations required rail service or which commercial rail lines between installations and ports were important to national defense.

Nuclear war
Robert Kagan, Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund, August and September 2007 (End of Dreams, Return of History, Policy Review, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.htm)
The jostling for status and influence …y are more likely to erupt if the United States weakens or withdraws from its positions of regional dominance. 

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Consumers go to the country with the best domestic programs – plan means they’ll go to the US
Bengelsdorf 7 (Harold, former U.S. government official, held senior positions with the US Atomic Energy Commission, the Energy Research and Development Agency, the US Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the US Dept of State and the US Dept of Energy, “THE U.S. DOMESTIC CIVIL NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE AND U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY”, White Paper prepared for the American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness May, http://www.nuclearcompetitiveness.org/images/COUNCIL_WHITE_PAPER_Final.pdf)
New Nuclear Plant Orders Consumer countries are likely to turn for …advance its nonproliferation objectives. 

Nuclear leadership is key to the Russian economy
AEP 2012 (JSC Atomenergoprom, “Russian Nuclear Industry Today,” date is date accessed, August 25, 2012, http://atomenergoprom.ru/en/nuclear/rus/)
Russian nuclear industry is one of the world’s leaders in terms …  state and sustainable growth of the country’s economy.

Russian economic decline causes nuclear war
FILGER 2009 (Sheldon, author and blogger for the Huffington Post, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction” http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356)
In Russia historically, economic health and political  … financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.

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Immigration reform including amnesty is top of the docket and will pass now; Obama must use pol cap to navigate conservative opposition and avoid piecemeal legislation
CSM 12/28 (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/1228/Immigration-reform-Is-amnesty-a-possibility-now)
The momentum of President Obama's resounding victory …  citizenship for illegal immigrants as a repudiation of the rule of law. Whether these voters – or their representatives – can be persuaded to accept amnesty is an open question.

Path to citizenship key to resolve budget shortfalls
Cynthia Tucker, The Philly Trib, 11/29 (Immigrants can help, not hurt, budget deficit, http://www.phillytrib.com/tribune/tribunecommentary/16077-immigrants-can-help-not-hurt-budget-deficit.html)
If you've spent any time pondering those … become convinced that illegal border-crossers are stealing jobs, burdening schools and running up the costs of health care. 

That’s key to avert devastating final economic collapse and war
Robert Morley, The Trumpet Print, February 2011 edition (America: Only Two More Years?, http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7756.0.131.0)
Two years. That is how much time America has to fix … is going to go live really soon.”  “In that sense,” he said, “I mean within the next two years.”

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The discourse of nuclear power is inextricably linked to the Bomb—the aff solidifies a grand mythology of nuclear energy that results in a cycle of endless fear and control
CHERNUS 2002 (Ira, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace, p. 112-114)
"Atoms for Peace' compounded the insecurity in yet another way. …  was to institutionalize an age of peril. Eisenhower sanctioned—and thereby helped to perpetuate—a cultural pathology of peril."8

This cycle results in extinction—we become willing participants in a regime of nuclear threat and environmental destruction
CHERNUS 1986 (Ira, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UC Boulder, Dr. Strangegod: On the Symbolic Meaning of Nuclear Weapons, p 136-140)
The similarities between the Bomb and other religious realities …  toward numbing, and numbing reinforces our commitment to the Bomb as God.

Our alternative is to give up on the attempt to control nuclear technology.  This act of despair leads to a profound breakthrough which solves both our impact and the case
CHERNUS 1986 (Ira, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UC Boulder, Dr. Strangegod: On the Symbolic Meaning of Nuclear Weapons, p 158-159)
Our initiations must be in some sense individual and private, but they must …  face our despair. And in facing despair, we deepen our craziness. Yet it is a necessary part of our initiation.

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The Aff’s call for further energy production is a marketing ploy to ensure that libidinal energies remain directed towards consumption. This drive towards production reduces the world to a series of objects and reifies a subject incapable of articulating care.
Stiegler, 12 (Bernard, is Director of the Institut de recherché et d’innovation (IRI) and founder of Ars Industrialis and the Ecole de Philosophe d’Epineuil-le-Fleuriel. “Care: Within the limits of Capitalism, economizing means taking care” Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change Vol 1., Online)

We all know that in no case will this new global capitalism be able to, … is dangerous not only because it produces excess quantities of carbon dioxide, but because it destroys minds.

The alternative is to reject the Aff’s investment in energies of production.  Only our reinvocation of care can challenge modern capitalism’s drive towards consumption
Pettman, 2k11 (Dominic, associate professor of culture and media at The New School , Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, g. 174-177)

The issue is an urgent one because any solution with a whiff of the Luddite … intimacy in the mode of the public well rather than the private derrick.