Tournament: UMKC | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

CP: Japan should substantially increase market-fixed production cost incentives in the United States for domestic American deployment of small modular nuclear reactors.

Japan solves 100% of case

- Hiruo ’8 (Japan clears way for loan guarantees in US, Japan clears way for loan guarantees in US  BYLINE: Elaine Hiruo, Washington  SECTION: Pg. 1 Vol. 49 No. 39, Created: September 26, 2008

A Cabinet-level decision in Japan has opened the way for that country to
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a viable applicant increases as its dependence on a DOE loan guarantee decreases. 

Solves US incentives – opening new plants to foreign investment solves leadership.

Steve Skutnik, September 5, 2012, A cost-free way to open up nuclear investment, Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, University of Tennessee Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering http://theenergycollective.com/skutnik/109611/cost-free-way-open-nuclear-investment
 Given the difficulty then, it seems positively insane for any political leadership to
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to happen is for leaders to be willing to say, "Oui."

Tournament: UMKC | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Obama is growing his lead – he’s a 76 percent favorite and leads all swing states

Silver 9/21/12 Nate, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/-http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

President Obama’s position inched forward in the FiveThirtyEight forecast on Thursday. His chances of
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and he has had close to 50 percent of the vote in them.

Massive public opposition to nuclear power – viewed as too risky

Ramana, Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security Physicist, 11
(M.V. August 3, "Nuclear power and the public," http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/nuclear-power-and-the-public-http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/nuclear-power-and-the-public, d/a 7-20-12, ads)
Japan is by no means alone. Around the world, nuclear energy has declined
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it unlikely that a large-scale "nuclear renaissance" will materialize. 

Obama Popularity key and can still swing

Cook, 12  (Charlie, Cook Political Report, National Journal, 4/12, http://cookpolitical.com/node/12364-http://cookpolitical.com/node/12364)
When a president runs for reelection, his job-approval ratings are more significant
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Obama’s approval rating at 48 percent and his disapproval score at 47 percent.

Romney will rollback EPA CO2 emission standards —- results in CO2 emissions and air pollution.

Star Ledger 12 (June 03, 2012, "Scary times for environment — especially if Mitt Romney wins", http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2012/06/scary_times_for_environment_—.html)
The grim report on jobs Friday greatly improves the odds that Republicans will win in
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Republicans win in November, any chance of passage will be snuffed out.

EPA regs key to econ and competitiveness – green jobs, regulatory certainty, innovation, lead in energy tech market

Gillebrand 10 Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee _{1/21 2010, ’Gillibrand: For New York, This Amendment Stands For More Air Pollution In Our Communities, More Acid Rain Devastating Natural Treasures Like The Adirondacks, Ever-Increasing Asthma Rates For Our Children," http://gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=c7e97140-cf14-4772-bf27-cd0c3a210db1
"Mr. President, I rise today to speak against the proposed Amendment from
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it, and the clarion call from public health advocates across the country.}

Economic recovery and boosting competitiveness are key to prevent the collapse of U.S. power—-that causes global great-power wars

Khalilzad 11 Zalmay Khalilzad was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992. "The Econom and National Security" Feb 8 www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/259024
Today, economic and fiscal trends pose the most severe long-term threat to the United States’ position as global leader. While the United States suffers from fiscal imbalances and low economic growth, the economies of rival powers are developing rapidly. The continuation of these two trends could lead to a shift from American primacy toward a multi-polar global system, leading in turn to increased geopolitical rivalry and even war among the great powers.
The current recession is the result of a deep financial crisis, not a mere
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debt  rose from 38 to over 60 percent of GDP in three years.
Without faster economic growth and actions to reduce deficits, publicly held national debt is
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that would almost certainly compel a radical retrenchment of the United States internationally.
Such scenarios would reshape the international order. It was the economic devastation of Britain
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be compelled to retrench, reducing its military spending and shedding international commitments.
We face this domestic challenge while other major powers are experiencing rapid economic growth.
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preclude or respond to international crises because of the higher risk of escalation.
The stakes are high. In modern history, the longest period of peace among the great powers has been the era of U.S. leadership. By contrast, multi-polar systems have been unstable, with their competitive dynamics resulting in frequent crises and major wars among the great powers. Failures of multi-polar international systems produced both world wars.
American retrenchment could have devastating consequences. Without an American security blanket, regional powers
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, hostile states would be emboldened to make aggressive moves in their regions.

Unchecked global warming causes extinction.

Tickell 2008 (Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Guardian, "On a Planet 4C Hotter, All We Can Prepare for is Extinction", 8-11, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange)
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told
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warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth. 

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: GWU | Judge:
Text: The fifty state and federal territorial governments of the United States should substantially increase financial incentives for passive solar housing for those that qualify for federally assisted housing through clean energy finance banks.

Berlin et al Sept 12 State Clean Energy Finance Banks: New Investment Facilities for
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a senior policy analyst and associate fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.

Propelled by private entrepreneurship, technology gains, and critical public support, clean energy
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use of commonly used credit structures from a possible generation of clean energy finance
banks could reduce or in some cases replace clean energy projects’ reliance on expiring tax credits,
grants, and subsidies.

Private financing is critical to passive solar. Only the CP creates a disruptive modell.

JOEL B. EISEN 2010 Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law. 24 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics %26 Pub. Pol’y 53 2010 CAN URBAN SOLAR BECOME A "DISRUPTIVE" TECHNOLOGY?: THE CASE FOR SOLAR UTILITIES

A new model for deploying solar is finding more widespread use in the commercial setting
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-in hybrids or a Home Depot might do with other home improvements.

Solves best- states can take the lead on energy policies through CEFs
Milford et al ’12 ~Lew Milford is a non-resident senior fellow at Brookings and president of Clean Energy Group. Mark Muro is a senior fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Jessica Morey is a consultant to Clean Energy Group. Devashree Saha is a senior policy analyst at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Mark Sinclair is executive director of Clean Energy States Alliance, "Leveraging State Clean Energy Funds for Economic Development," January, http://www.brookings.edu/~~/media/research/files/papers/2012/1/11%20states%20energy%20funds/0111_states_energy_funds.pdf-http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2012/1/11 states energy funds/0111_states_energy_funds.pdf~

And so U.S. states, as classic "laboratories of experimentation,"
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to best leverage public and private dollars and to learn from each other’s experiences

Tournament: Kentucky | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

The affirmative’s managerial impulse in response to crisis inscribes an unreflective ethics—an ethics of power and control that forecloses the possibility of thinking otherwise and refuses the admission of our powerlessness

McWhorter 92, Professor of Philosophy at Northeast Missouri State, 92  (LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth, ed: McWhorter, p. vii-viii)

Guilt is a concept whose heritage and meaning occur within the ethical tradition of the
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the event of thinking, even if what is shattered eventually is ourselves.

Environmental ethics are rooted in the framework of metaphysics and the subject-object dualism, mandating we act as "subjects" over "objects" in the world.  This is a product of the calculative mindset, which always attempts to locate "problems" in which we must find "solutions" – using the core components of technology; theory production and conceptualization.  This project ultimately fails – only by embracing the radically transformative potential of our alternative can we address the root cause and achieve the goals that environmental ethics wish to see.

Stenstad 2006 (Gail, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at East Tennessee State University, associate editor of Heidegger Studies, and a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy.  "Transformations Thinking After Heidegger" University of Wisconsin Press. Page(s) 183-186)

In the first place, the thinking of the first and other beginning, if
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fosters are in large measure at the root of many of those problems.
So the bottom line is that to try to derive "an ethics" from
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by once again gathering ourselves to releasement toward things and openness to mystery.

The critique outweighs – the prime danger is not that technological things will runs amok, but that technological thinking will erase the possibility of human freedom. The affirmative merely identifies a symptom and not a cause

Rojcewicz 06 (Richard Rojcewicz, Philosophy at Point Park College in Pittsburgh, The Gods And Technology: A Reading Of Heidegger, 2006, Kindle Edition. Kindle locations 944-969)

Heidegger now launches an extended discussion of the danger inherent in modern technology. It
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the earth," and yet their self-blindness would make them slaves.

Vote negative to let being be – this is a direct negation of the willful and violent power of machination that understands power and violence as intrinsic characteristics of being. Releasement from the violence of will allows the earth to disclose itself to us in a totally new ontological context.

Joronen 11, Mikko, Department of Geography, University of Turku, Finland, "Dwelling in the Sites of Finitude: Resisting the Violence of the Metaphysical Globe," Antipode Antipode Vol. 43 No. 4 2011 ISSN 0066-4812, pp 1127–1154 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00850.x

According to the first sense of rejecting, letting-be indicates a radical negation
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2007:8, 16; ˇ Ziˇzek 2006:282–283).
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Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pitt | Judge: 

Text: All must depart from the closed economy that seeks to subordinate energy to the role of mechanized work. Thus, all will affirm the elimination of the restriction on energy production imposed by the closed economy of the resolution.

The use of the word we – creates distinctions between members and non-members  - marks colonialism.

Dr Pille Petersoo 2007 National deixis in the media Tallinn University Journal of Language and Politics 2007 What does ’we’ mean?

’Banal nationalism’ has been one of the most popular concepts entering the scholarly discussion
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take nations for granted, and which, in so doing, enhabit them

. Small words, rather than grand memorable phrases, offer constant, but rarely
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"how the national ’we’ is constructed and what is meant by such
construction" (Billig 1995: 70).

This culminates in structural violence and war that risks survival

William Eckhardt 90, Lentz Peace Research Laboratory of St. Louis, Journal of Peace Research, February 1990, p. 15-16

Modern Western Civilization used war as well as peace to gain the whole world as
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challenge is very urgent indeed. Life itself may depend upon our choice.