Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Child leukemia clusters exist around nuke power plants

Busby, Chris (PhD, Scientist, Director; Green Audit Limited, Scientific Advisor to Low Level Radiation Campaign); February 2012; “Childhood Leukemia Near Nuclear Facilities”; http://nonuclear.se/files/chileuksweden_busby201202.pdf

"Since the paper by WF was published...the argument they use."

Increases in wind turbine usage raises cost of electricity – Kansas empirically proves 

KCPandL (Kansas City Power and Light); 4/20/2012; Press Release; “KCPandL Files Rate Increase Request with Kansas Cooperation Commission”; http://www.kcpl.com/about/pr/KS_2012_Rate_request.pdf

Wind energy
increase request.
This neglect of people represents a lack of importance -- this is typical of a relationship to emotional trauma makes 1ac impacts inevtable and ensures structural violence

Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D., Ph.D. is a Founding Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. 'Empathic Civilization' in an Age of Trauma, Huffington Post. February 23, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-d-stolorow/empathic-civilization-in_b_470095.html

In my
the light. 

Uranium mining furthers the decades of abuse to Native Americans and causes thousands of cases of death and cancer.

The New Zealand Herald, July 16, 2007 Monday

Like many
killed thousands."

Structural violence is the biggest impact in the debate: it is systemic, it outweighs nuclear war and it is the root cause of all other forms of violence

Gilligan, (Dept. of Psych. @ Harvard Med and Dir. of the Center for the Study of Violence) 1996
James, Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes p. 191-196

You cannot
to effect.
The Alternative is to reject un empathetic action to relearn empathy. 

We must act with empathy in every instance to ensure an empathetic civilization 

Richard Restak is the author of 20 books on the human brain, former president of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, and clinical professor of Neurology at George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC. 'Empathic Civilization': Our Brains Were Built For Feeling Each Other's Pain, Huffington Post. February 15, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-restak/empathic-civilization-our_b_460845.html

In our
Empathic Civilization".
And unless there is a leap of faith that embraces the empathetic decision calculus, extinction will result 

Jeremy Rifkin is the author of 'The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis,' published by Tarcher Penguin in January 2010. Mr. Rifkin has been an advisor to the European Union since 2002. In that capacity, he is the principle architect of the Third Industrial Revolution long-term economic sustainability plan to address the triple challenge of the global economic crisis, energy security, and climate change. 'The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era, Huffington Post. January 11, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-rifkin/the-empathic-civilization_b_416589.html. 

Neither the
through history?

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Switching from fossil fuels to Renewables does not solve our consumption addiction – such an approach ensures our dependence on and destruction of the natural world
 
Wilkerson in 2006
Joseph, “Energy and Psyche: Resource Addiction in the Technological Age”
This article was originally submitted as a term paper for the environmental science class “Energy and Society” in April 2006
 
Does this
later on. 
Increase Production necessitates a demand for increased consumption.  Focusing the debate on changing energy imputs without questioning societies relationship with consumption ensures continued ecological damage.
Ruggero in 2009
E. Colin (PhD Candidate in Sociology at the New School for Social Research, focusing specifically on Social Movements) “Radical Green Populism: Climate Change, Social Change, and the Power of Everyday Practice” http://www.anarchist-studies.org/node/309
 
Indeed, this
energy regime.
Shifts in Production of energy without questioning consumption ensure further environmental damage.  It leads to system of collective denial and cognitive dissonance as the loss of vital ecosystems accelerate around the world 

 Rees, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 10
(William, “Whats blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial”, Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy 6(2):13-25, http://sspp.proquest.com/archives/vol6iss2/1001-012.rees.html, accessed 7/11/12)
 
Just what
the world.
This debate is a question of what you choose to value when faced with the mutually exclusive options of increased production or decreased individual consumption.  It is an ethical question that precedes all utilitarian calculations. 
 
Oliver 2010
Kelly Oliver, prof phil at Vanderbilt U, “Animal Ethics: Towards an Ethics of Responsivenss” Research in Phenomenology 40: 267-280 Oliver 6
 
In this
collective planet.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative proposal of increased production in favor of prioritizing a reduction of individual consumption and ecological destruction. This is the only approach that will challenge our denial of individual guilt and responsibility.
 
Princen, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, 01
(Thomas, “Consumption and its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology”, Global Environmental Politics 1:3, August, EBSCO, p.27)
 
In short
consumer sovereignty.

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“Increase” means a net increase
Rogers 5 (Judge – New York, et al., Petitioners v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Respondent, NSR Manufacturers Roundtable, et al., Intervenors, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 12378, ; 60 ERC (BNA) 1791, 6/24, Lexis)

48  Statutory Interpretation.
perfect condition.

“Reduce” means to diminish in size or extent – this requires that the subject is pre-existing
Merriam-Webster Online,  “Reduce,” No Date, (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reduce accessed 9/19/12)

a : to draw
shorter : abridge
“Increase” means a net increase
Rogers 5 (Judge – New York, et al., Petitioners v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Respondent, NSR Manufacturers Roundtable, et al., Intervenors, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 12378, ; 60 ERC (BNA) 1791, 6/24, Lexis)

48  Statutory Interpretation.
perfect condition.

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Interpretation—Actor should be within the USFG 

USFG is all 3 branches
Princeton Wordnet, 2000, cognitive science laboratory p. online http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=united%20states

United States
United States

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Best evidence shows obama winning tight race now

Carnia 9/20 (Catalina, Staff Writer at USA Today, “ 8 of 13 forecasts say Obama wins popular vote,” http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/09/20/obama-romney-forecasting-models-election/70000816/1#.UFx6hqTyaZc, 9/20/12)

Wind Is Unpopular – Fails in congress 

Denver Post; 4/12/2012
www.denverpost.com; “Popular wind-energy tax credit stumbles in Congress”; http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_20305377/popular-wind-energy-tax-credit-stumbles-congress

WASHINGTON — Though
Congressional approval of the plan disrupts Obama’s political strategy – he’s winning because of obstructionism 

Williams, Fox News Political Analyst, 12
(Juan, June 11, “Opinion: President Obama’s campaign takes a page from Truman’s playbook,” http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/231959-opinion-president-obamas-campaign-takes-a-page-from-trumans-playbook, d/a 7-20-12, ads)

President Obama
hell, Barack!”
Spending is the key issue in swing states

Heinze 7/25 Christian the founder of GOP12.com, is a member of staff at The Hill, 7/25/2012, “Romney could cash in on deficit issues” The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/christian-heinze/239863-romney-could-cash-in-on-deficit-issues

In fact,
often assumed.
Spending frames the election- more spending allows Republicans to frame Obama as a tax and spend liberal

Heinze 7/25 Christian the founder of GOP12.com, is a member of staff at The Hill, 7/25/2012, “Romney could cash in on deficit issues” The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/christian-heinze/239863-romney-could-cash-in-on-deficit-issues

But beyond
support him.
Subsidies are unpopular with the public
 
Amory B. Lovins is chairman and chief scientist of the independent, apolitical, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute. Nuclear Socialism, Weekly Standard. OCTOBER 25, 2010 http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2010-21_NuclearSocialism
 
That’s right
 deserve subsidies.

What happens
in combat.
Plan would cause backlash – From Independents

Pew Research Center, 11
(November 10, “Partisan Divide Over Alternative Energy Widens,” http://www.people-press.org/2011/11/10/partisan-divide-over-alternative-energy-widens/1/, d/a 8-4-12, ads)

Public support
eaning independents.
Independants are Key to Elections

Charlotte Business Journal September 14, 2012 http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/print-edition/2012/09/14/independents-hold-key-to-presidential.html 

All the polls
this election
Romney will strike Iran – he’ll be hawkish

Daily Kos 12 Daily Kos; “President Obama versus Romney on Iran”; 4/16/2012; http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/16/1083726/-President-Obama-versus-Romney-on-Iran

Approach to
errorism alerts.
Intervention in Iran goes nuclear

Reuters 12
“Russia says action on Syria, Iran may go nuclear” May 17, 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/us-g8-russia-idUSBRE84G18M20120517

Hasty military
a conflict.

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First, CIGS growing now

Solar Server 10 Solar Server Online Portal to Solar Energy "Photovoltaic production in the CIGSfab: Integrated factories provide competitive solar electricity" 2010 http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-energy-system-of-the-month/photovoltaic-production-in-the-cigsfab-integrated-factories-provide-competitive-solar-electricity.html

To ensure
market share.
Subsidies and incentives ensures low silicon prices—Germany proves

Pauli ’10. "Solar without Subsidies" By Gunter Pauli The BlueEconomy 2010 http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/Case53_Solar_en.pdf

The German
2010 level.
Cheap Silicon pushes CIGS out permanently-- if they survive the recent cheap PV prices, will do great
Deign ’12. "Make or break time for CIGS" By Jason Deign Jan. 3, 2012. PV Insider http://news.pv-insider.com/thin-film-pv/make-or-break-time-cigs

It is
could be.”
Traditional PV relies on silicone
Bullis ’10 "Making more solar cells from silicon" Kevin Bullis March 4, 2010 Technology Review published by MIT http://www.technologyreview.com/news/417891/making-more-solar-cells-from-silicon/

A new manufacturing
down costs.
Silicon causes pollution
Pasternack '08 Pollution Casts Shadow Tree Hugger By Alex Pastermack http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/pollution-casts-shadow-over-chinese-solar.html 

With exports
 like snow.
Pollution causes extinction
American Chronicle, Human Extinction. April 14, 2007. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/24238

The most
never born.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The cold war never ended, Russia only pretended to lose – Nyquist ‘9
J.R. Nyquist, 8/28/09, Financial Sense, "The Sequence," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0828.html
 
Given the
and more.
The Soviet Union intends to first strike the United States – they are waiting for any sign of strategic superiority
 
Nyquist 99
 (J.R. Nyquist, a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and a renowned expert in geopolitics and international relations, is the author of "Origins of the Fourth World War." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19774)
 
The greatest
the Americans."
Evidence Russia wants to attack – Mock Attacks
 
Ruddy 99
(Christopher, March 16, http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/3/16/84704)
 
2. Mock attacks.
as normal.
Attempts at Russian Expansion Result in Nuclear weapons use on US Soil and the death of millions
 
Cibulka 2003
(Petr, editor of Uncensored News and historian, September 7, “Another fine Specimen,” http://www.jrnyquist.com/cibulka_2003_0905.htm, accessed: 9-10-03)
 
We have
against us.
Every other issue in this debate is just a reshuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic – dealing with the strategic discord between Russia and the US is the only way to avoid impending extinction
 
NYQUIST, JUNE 19TH 2009
J.R., Why Most Things Do Not Matter, http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0619.html
 
Imagine you
and death.

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Text: The 50 states and relevant United States Territories will Establish a feed in tarrif program
 
Observation I:  Competes – Solves the case and avoids the Elections link – Obama isnt blamed for State action
 
Observation II:  Solves:  Energy policy  should be a state responsibility – they solve better than the federal government
 
David Brakke, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at James Madison University, “Federalism,” Association of Women in Science Magazine, Vol 30, No 1, 2001  (http://csm.jmu.edu/brakke/Asset/Publications/AWIS_columns/Federalism_/federalism_.html)
 
California is
management overall.
States are a laboratory for new energy production programs – their action gets modeled.

Lash ’07 (Jonathan, “Climate Policy in the State Laboratory: How States Influence Federal Regulation and the Implications for U.S. Policy,” World Resources Institute, September, http://www.wri.org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory, TGA)

America has
the future.

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Impact empirically denied—blackouts happen frequently
Richardson and Gordon ‘7. The Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks - Harry Ward Richardson, Peter Gordon - Google Bookshttp://books.google.com/books?id=SAtllrWQDRsCandpg=PA58andlpg=PA58anddq=blackouts+happen+often+economyandsource=blandots=1V3AaS1e3Handsig=_loATSq_LOayy8ROwSR8TWGzdcandhl=enandsa=Xandei=57iMT4WiB9G42gWP5cWzCQandved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepageandqandf=false
Blackouts occur
some years.
U.S Electrical grid stable
USA Today; July '12; www.usatoday.com; “Energy experts say blackout like India's is unlikely in U.S.”; http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-07-31/usa-india-power-outage/56622978/1 

WASHINGTON – A
Mansoor said.
Blackouts not likely to happen – would take too much to make the grid fail
Washington Times; August '12; “Lights out for the U.S. Power grid?”; www.communities.washingtontimes.com; http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/energy-harnassed/2012/aug/1/can-us-grid-blackout/ 

In terms o
at all.
Little to no risk of demand-linked blackouts
Cato; July '12; “Experts: U.S. Risk of demand-linked blackouts low”; triblive.com; http://triblive.com/news/2304292-74/power-grid-demand-blackout-pjm-blackouts-dupont-kidd-megawatts-outages#axzz26ZO151VE 

Energy experts
Reed said.
No blackouts - all generators have reserveds, backups and storage to prevent long-term blackout

Lovins and Sheikh in 2009, Rocky Mountain Institute, ‘08 AMORY B. LOVINS, Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org) and has published in 29 books and hundreds of papers, his work has been recognized by a MacArthur Fellowship (1993). He has consulted for more than  three decades for major firms and governments (including the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense) on advanced energy and resource efficiency in 50 countries, has advised scores of electric utilities and has led the technical redesign of $30 billion worth of facilities. IMRAN SHEIKH, RMI Research Analyst, is now a graduate student at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley. “The Nuclear Illusion,” 27 May 2008, DRAFT subject to further peer review/editing, http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E08-01_AmbioNuclIlusion.pdf download date: 6-21-08  

 The grid
tail service.
UQ overwhelms the link – massive blackouts occuring now and the impact is empericaly denied
Craig Lewis, Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and R. James Woolsey, Executive director of the Clean Coalition, “Securing the Nation's Power Grid,” May 25, 2012, (http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9301-securing-the-nations-power-grid accessed 9/15/12)

Large-scale
normal operations.

SMRs Will replace nuclear starting in 2013
REBECCA SMITH. Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes, Wall Street Journal. February 18, 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703444804575071402124482176.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle

Many obstacles
three years.
Meltdowns won't occur because SMRs passive saftey features

Robert Rosner and Stephen Goldberg, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies.  Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S., Energy Policy Institute at Chicago. November 2011 http://epic.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/SMRWhite_Paper_Dec.14.2011copy.pdf

While the
his paper.
Expanding renewables in the grid Causes blackouts

Holehouse 11 (Matthew, Reporter for at the Daily Telegraph who was named Young Journalist of the Year by the Scottish Press Awards, “Green energy could trigger 'catastrophic' blackouts”, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/8909585/Green-energy-could-trigger-catastrophic-blackouts.html, 11/23/11)

Solar panels
report said.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Economic collapse doesn’t cause war – no causal connection

Thomas P.M. Barnett (senior managing director of Enterra Solutions LLC and a contributing editor/online columnist for Esquire magazine) August 2009 “The New Rules: Security Remains Stable Amid Financial Crisis” http://www.aprodex.com/the-new-rules~-~-security-remains-stable-amid-financial-crisis-398-bl.aspx

When the
is for.
Countries turn inward – creates peace

Lloyd deMause, director of The Institute for Psychohistory, “Nuclear War as an Anti-Sexual Group Fantasy” Updated December 18th 2002, http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/ja/nucsex.htm

The nation
treaties multiply.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
First, is China

Reuters, June 11, 2012 (The Guardian“Climate change rate could be faster than thought, study suggests”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/11/climate-change-china-carbon-emissions)

China's carbon
extreme weather.
Next is Deforestation

Walker and King 8-- Director of the School of Environment @Oxford
Gabrielle, PhD in Chemistry, Sir David, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and a senior scientific adviser to UBS, The Hot Topic, pg. 106

Chopping down
urn farmers.
Next is the construction industry

Utama et al. 11
(Nuki Agya Utama, Keiichi N. Ishihara, Tetsuo Tezuka, and Qi Zhang are researchers at the Graduate School Energy Science in Kyoto University in Kyoto Japan and Miguel Esteban is part of the Graduate School Civil and Environmental at Waseda university in Tokyo Japan;  “Transportation’s Impact Assessment on Construction Sector”; June-Aug, 2011)

Globally the
acid rain.
Co2 Doesn't cause warming - Our Evidence Uses Satellite Data Which is the Most Objective

Taylor, 2011 (James Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment and Climate News, “New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism” Yahoo News, July 27th, 2011, Online @ http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html ht)

NASA satellite
truly are.
Satellite data proves that CO2 causes long lasting cloud cover which prevents warming 

S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. President, Science and Environmental Policy Project; Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, University of Virginia AND Craig D. Idso, Ph.D. Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. Climate Change Reconsidered, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. 2009 http://www.nipccreport.org/reports/2009/2009report.html

Rosenfeld (2000) used
its cool.”
No warming—we’ve entered a 30 year period of cooling—proved by PDOs

• • PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION

Easterbrook 10—geology professor specializing in climate effects
(Don, geology professor emeritus at Western Washington University http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/research/global/easterbrook_climate-cycle-evidence.pdf EVIDENCE OF THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING AND COOLING: RECURRING GLOBAL, DECADAL, CLIMATE CYCLES RECORDED BY GLACIAL FLUCTUATIONS, ICE CORES, OCEAN TEMPERATURES, HISTORIC MEASUREMENTS AND SOLAR VARIATIONS)

‘Global warming
more decades.
Geologic Cycles Disprove Anthropogenic Warming Theory – Prefer Our Evidence, It Looks at Warming Over a Longer Period of Time

Rana, 12 (Y.S. Rana, writer for The India Post, Based on Research by Dr. Ritesh Arya, Member @ Nat’l Institute of Hydrology, Former reseacher at CAS Geology Panjab University Chandigar, and former Hydrogeologist at Groundwater Organisation,Irrigation and Public Health Govt of Himachal Pradesh , “Global Warming Is Not Man-Made Says Dr Arya” April 10th 2012, Online @ http://www.theindiapost.com/enviornment/global-warming-man-made-dr-arya/ ht)

Global warming
global warming.
Warming doesn't cause extinction – mainstream science is on our side

Hsu ‘10
Jeremy, Live Science Staff, July 19, pg. http://www.livescience.com/culture/can-humans-survive-extinction-doomsday-100719.html

His views
remains uncertain."
No extinction – Humans will adapt

Goklany 2011 - a science and technology policy analyst for the United States Department of the Interior (Indur M., “Misled on Climate Change: How the UN IPCC (and others) Exaggerate the Impacts of Global Warming” December 2011, http://goklany.org/library/Reason%20CC%20and%20Development%202011.pdf, PZ)

A third
per 100.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
No Indo-Pak war of Kashmir – empirically proven.

Finel in ‘9
Bernard Finel, an Atlantic Council contributing editor, is a senior fellow at the American Security Project.. “Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nuclear War”. September 1, 2009. Atlantic Council. http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/afghanistan-pakistan-and-nuclear-war

While Kashmir
uncontrolled escalation.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
the NRC won't Lisence Yucca, Independent of the Plan
Rob Wile is the Energy Markets reporter and a staff writer for Business Insider. He majored in History at Columbia University and earned a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School. A Federal Court May Have Finally Ended The Nuclear Waste Storage Fight, Business Insider. Jun. 19, 2012 http://www.businessinsider.com/court-nuclear-waste-storage-2012-6#ixzz1yNcZdRiO
 
In the
is generated.
The Government will Find a Place with Local Desire for Storage
MATTHEW DALY. Yucca Mountain Project: Failed Nuclear Waste Site Should Be Replaced, Panel Says, Huffington Post. January 26, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/yucca-mountain-nuclear-waste-panel_n_1234537.html

The Obama
local support.
Carlsbad will be chosen, safest of all options and Locals Want it – This turns the K plan solves the impact through government policy as law, not just individual rejection
Christopher Helman, Forbes Staff with a focus on oil, gas and the tycoons who control it. Nuke Us: The Town That Wants America's Worst Atomic Waste, Forbes. January 25, 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/01/25/nuke-us-meet-the-town-that-wants-americas-worst-nuclear-waste/
 
Still, science
as fertilizer.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Space travel impossible - We can’t put the equipment we need into space.  We’d need perfect energy
 
STROSS  07 
 winner 2007 Prometheus Award – BS computer science and Pharmacy Charles Stross “The High Frontier” 6/18/07  http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html/
 
Incidentally, a
coming from.
Alternate Causality- Bone loss prevents long space voyages
 
Miller, 01
Karen Miller, “The Zero G Battle: How Astronauts and Cosmonauts Cope”, 8-31-01, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/gravity_adapt_010831-1.html
 
Bone recovery
he says.
Long space voyages impossible anytime soon- Multiple reasons
 
Krueger 2-18-08
Curtis Krueger, “Dangers of Space,” St. Petersburg Times, February 18, 2008, LexisNexis
 
An undisclosed
 to Mars. 

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
US China tensions high now – working towards co-operation but china is wears of US attempts to undermine productivity
Brian Spegele and Monica Langley, The Wall Street Journal, 9/5/12, “U.S. and China Yield Little Ground in Talks: No Progress Seen on Territorial Spats, Syria; Back Problem Blamed as Xi, Seen as Next President, Skips Clinton Meeting,”

BEIJING—China
targeting China.
China is strategically posturing now with mercantilism and weapons designs – China perceives prominence as zero-sum
Kenneth Lieberthal,Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy  and in Global Economy and Development and is Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, Wang Jisi, Director of the Center for International and Strategic Studies and Dean of the School of International Studies  at Peking University, 2012, “Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust,” 

Given the
United States.
Subsidies are unecessary and place tension on US/China trade relations – eliminating government intervention solves relations and energy security
Timothy P. Carney, Senior political columnist, The Examiner, “Green-energy subsidies spark trade war,” 20 August 2012, (http://washingtonexaminer.com/green-energy-subsidies-spark-trade-war/article/2505382#.UEfHWI1lQ2A accessed

When President
makes sense.
Trade war kills global economy
MINT '11. "Fear of Trade War" Oct. 18, 2011. p. lexis
 
And no prizes for guessing which country will be the primary target for such punitive action! China has been holding its currency down
for worry.
US China trade war escalates  - extinction
Liu '05. "Trade Wars can lead to shooting Wars" by Henry C K Liu-Chairman of a New York based private investment group. Aug. 20, 2005. Asia Times. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/GH20Dj01.html

US geopolitical
with overcapacity.
Extinction comes first the right to life is the highest value to uphold in extreme situations based upon a consequentialist loose utilitarianism 

Kateb 1992
George, professor of politics @ Princeton University.  "The Inner Ocean:  Individualism and Democratic Culture."
What does
the threat.)

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
If would be incredibly difficult to smuggle the material to a safe operating location and even their if would be highly unlikely they could produce a nuclear bomb.

Mueller ‘10
John Mueller, professor of political science at Ohio State University. “Calming Our Nuclear Jitters”. Issues in Science and Technology. 1/1/2010. Vol.26,Iss.2;p.58-66. Academic Search Premiere.

If terrorists
 be locals.

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Text --- In an appropriate test case, the United States Supreme Court should issue a narrow ruling that federal authority over commandeers the states’ legislative functions in violation of the 10th and 11th Amendments. The Supreme Court should devolve authority of this narrow ruling to the State Governments and United States Territories.

The 50 States and relevant U.S. territories should Insert Plan_.

Contention 1 --- Competes based on disads linked to Federal Government action.

Contention 2 --- Solves

The Court can make this ruling and devolve power to the states --- it won’t be rolled back

Miller ‘98 (Mark A., Attorney at Law – Baker Botts LLP, Cleveland State Law Review, Lexis)
The history of the...curtail the Spending power.

Extending the Lopez precedent is critical to send strong signal encouraging federalism worldwide --- this solves global war and promotes economic growth

Calabresi ‘95 (Steven G., Assistant Prof – Northwestern U., Michigan Law Review, Lexis)
The prevailing wisdom...what is at stake.

Economic collapse causes extinction

Kerpen 8 (Phil, National Review Online, October 29, , Don't Turn Panic Into Depression, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/opinion/main4555821.shtml)
It’s important that we...be any higher.

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Private sector making massive investments in the energy sector now- market solutions key to competitive energy industries

Nelson 12 James B. Nelson President, Solar 3D INC Testimony, 5/16/2012 Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight, and Government Spending http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-16-12-RegAffairs-Nelson.pdf
U.S. adoption of solar...government fund commercialization.

Financial incentives undermine innovation

Shah 11 It’s Time to Kill Permanent Energy Subsidies BY JIGAR SHAH CEO of the Carbon War Room, a nonprofit that harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to implement market-driven solutions to climate change and create a post-carbon economy | MAY 4, 2011 http://www.fastcompany.com/1751390/its-time-kill-permanent-energy-subsidies
Permanent subsidies don’t...hope of success.

Innovation key to the economy-turns the aff

Edwards and DeHaven 12 Corporate Welfare Spending vs. the Entrepreneurial Economy by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven House Budget Committee This testimony was delivered on June 1, 2012. Fellows at the CATO Institute http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/corporate-welfare-spending-vs-entrepreneurial-economy
Most of America's...and change direction.

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Text – The United States Supreme Court should overturn the decision Rose V Chajkin.  The court should rule that windmill erection on private residential property does not constitute a common law nuisance claim violation
 
The Counterplan is the only way to ensure residential wind production – Nuisance laws prevent production in the squo

Baria in 2009 (DePaul Law Review Fall, 2009 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 59 DePaul L. Rev. 141 COMMENT: UP THE CREEK WITH A PADDLE: WATER DOCTRINE AS A BASIS FOR SMALL WIND ENERGY RESOURCE RIGHTS NAME: Thaddeus Baria* BIO: * J.D. Candidate 2011, DePaul University College of Law; B.S. 1999, Purdue University.)
Resistance by neighbors...renewable energy development.

Large Scale Projects are extremely expensive and price small market residential projects out of the market –Small Scale Residential Wind projects are feasible and cost-effective if wind access is secured which only the counterplan guarantees.
 
Baria in 2009 (DePaul Law Review Fall, 2009 DePaul L. Rev. 141 COMMENT: UP THE CREEK WITH A PADDLE: WATER DOCTRINE AS A BASIS FOR SMALL WIND ENERGY RESOURCE RIGHTS NAME: Thaddeus Baria* BIO: * J.D. Candidate 2011, DePaul University College of Law; B.S. 1999, Purdue University.)
Wind and renewable... and state goals.

Utility Wind power kills Birds of Prey

Fox News; 8/16/2011; www.foxnews.com; “Energy in America: Dead Birds Unintended Consequence of Wind Power Development”; http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/16/energy-in-america-dead-birds-unintended-consequence-wind-power-development/
As California attempts...wipe them out."

Residential Wind does not kill birds
 
Merriam in 2009 (Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 10 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 291 ARTICLE: REGULATING BACKYARD WIND TURBINES NAME: Dwight H. Merriam* * Dwight H. Merriam founded Robinson and Cole's Land Use Group in 1978)
The principal...power development.

Top of the food chain predators are key to their ecosystems

LiveScience; 7/19/2006; www.livescience.com; “Top Predators Key to Ecosystem Survival, Study Shows”; http://www.livescience.com/4171-top-predators-key-ecosystem-survival-study-shows.html
The top...its difficult getting back," he said.

Studies prove that biodiversity must be protected to avoid extinction 

Science Daily, Biodiversity Key to Earth's Life-Support Functions in a Changing World. August 11, 2011 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084513.htm=
In an international...life-support functions.

Lack of wind siting on  high population density forces wind to be sited on agricultural lands

Adelaha and Hailu in 2008 Renewable Energy Development and Implications to Agricultural Viability1 ASoji Adelaja is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor in Land Policy and Director of the Land Policy Institute (LPI) at Michigan State University (MSU). Yohannes G. Hailu is Visiting Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Research at the LPI. We appreciate the assistance of Chuck McKeon and Ben Calnin in conducting the spatial analysis for this paper. Selected paper prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 2008 http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/6132/2/470566.pdf
This study primarily..policy interest.

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The methodological starting point of their argument must be called into question to determine the validity of their project.  We will argue their starting point of academic debate within the university and the way they have framed their position leads to pacification, apathy, abandonment, of the people they need to join their resistance. 

University Contained Discourse on the  EXPLOITATIVE FUNCTION OF POWER merely Sustains Powers Ability to CONSTRAIN ANY type of Resistance by turning Victims of power into Ghosts,  This suspends any potential action while  Masking Power – ESPECIALLY in Academic Subcultures like Debate

Occupied UC Berkeley 2k9
http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/, the necrosocial: civic life, social death, and the UC, nov. 19,
Totally managed...the horror is thoughtless.

Your Preoccupation with challenging hegemonic power structures within a system that is itself a hegemonic power structure makes you live a social death.  You become a product and subservient to the systems you criticize. You are a cog in the machine and you don’t even realize it.

Occupied UC Berkeley 2k9
http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/, the necrosocial: civic life, social death, and the UC, nov. 19,
Every institution has...of being owned.

The alternative is to abandon the flawed methodological approach of the affirmative.  If we win a link then we will that their method leads to pacification and abandonment of any real change they hope to accomplish.  This means you could vote negative on presumption.  However, rejection forces a new methodological approach that will challenge the inertia that will inevitably result from their movement. The only hope of solving is to not accept the pacification and cooption the University creates surrounding  critical theory.

Chomsky - 2002
(Noam, Understanding Power; The Indispensable Chomsky. Pages 96-97)
So what you...have any outreach

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1- The Aff avoids governmental politics—this results in a extreme right takeover that leads to extinction
 
Carl Boggs, National University, Los Angeles, December 1997, “The great retreA2: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America”, Theory and Society, Volume 26, Number 6, JDI
The decline...from civil society

2- Extreme Right takeover

A) Failure to engage in the political process will result in the takeover by the extreme right, leading to discrimination and war worldwide

Rorty 98 – professor emeritus of comparative literature and philosophy, by courtesy, at Stanford University (Richard, “ACHIEVING OUR COUNTRY: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America”, 1998, pg. 89-94)
*WE DO NOT ENDORSE GENDERED LANGUAGE*
Many writers...resourceful spook."10

B) This ensures science is abandoned 

David Brin. Political Science, eSkeptic. October 13, 2005. http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/05-10-13/
According to Chris Mooney....branch of government.

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They Attack the Scientific method and are the ontological opposite of Science
Science will make good predictions because of its process of establishing truth-- Not using science ensures failure to deal with imminent problems like warming

Tad Johnson, a graduate of UW-Madison in Computer Science and currently work in the IT field, but my interests include urban planning, energy policy, photography, and entrepreneurship. Science, TadFad.com. Nov 14th, 2006  http://www.tadfad.com/2006/11/14/science/
Science is...fundamental difference

Human nature ensures Consumption and dominance of nature is inevitable – This is superchared by Johnson 6
Wilkinson 5 –Will Wilkinson, MA in Philosophy, former Academic Coordinator of the Social Change Project and the Global Prosperity Initiative at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “Capitalism and Human Nature,” 1-2005, http://www.cato.org/research/articles/wilkinson-050201.html
Tragically, human...will endure.

Debates by non-government actors about future crises are critical distopian visions that can mobilize transnational movements that are effectively pressuring governments into preventing nuclear annihilation 

Kurasawa, 04 (Professor of Sociology, York University of Toronto, Fuyuki, Constellations Volume 11, No 4, 2004).
In the twenty-first...rights violations).

Epistimology is Key to Accessing Ontology – Our Epistimology is Science, Science is Based on Truth and is self Correcting – that is Johnson. That Means our Ontology is Set in Truth – The Advocacy is not. And our Epistimological and ontological process is key to solving Their impacts Impacts

Paul Kurtz, Editor in Chief of Free Inquiry, a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University at Buffalo, and Chairman of the Center for Inquiry. Religion in Conflict, Council for Secular Humanism. February / March 2007 Volume 27 Number http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=libraryandpage=kurtz_27_2
One charge...claims of faith.
 
Our Ontological Process is Key to constraining arbitrary power while valuing and protecting the natural world – turns advocacy
 
Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, 2004, Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of
Radical Engagement, p. 160-62
Enlightenment thinking...their suffering.

The scientific method ensures nanotechnology
 
Blue Penguin Report, Nanotechnology: We Are Expanding Our World by Making it Smaller. January 16, 2010 http://vagabondguru.com/BluePenguinReportDaily/2009/03/infrastructure.html 
The list keeps...making it smaller. 

Nanotechnology would provide a utopia – Turns the Aff 

Drexler, 86
(Eric, Nanotechnologist, “Engines of Creation,” Accessed 7/13/08, http://www.e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Chapter_15.html) KMH
This, then, is...chance to try.

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A. Our framework – debate should be a site for contest over political proposals. This requires that the affirmative present a predictable plan of action and defends that their policy should be adopted by the United States federal government. 

B. Our interpretation most predictable given the wording of the resolution:

1. The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon – the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debaters

 Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing – 2000  http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm
Use of ... capital letter.

2. “Resolved” expresses intent to implement the plan

American Heritage Dictionary 2000 www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=resolved
To find...successful conclusion

3. “Should” denotes an expectation of enacting a plan

 American Heritage Dictionary – 2000 www.dictionary.com
 3 Used to...or expectation

4. “The USFG” is the government in Washington D.C.

 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com
 “The federal ...Washington DC.”

5. and, our definition excludes action by smaller political groups or individuals.

Black’s Law Dictionary Seventh Edition Ed. Bryan A. Garner (chief) 1999
Federal government...national political matters

C. Violation – The affirmative is not an instrumental affirmation of the resolution – they affirm the topic as 

D. Reasons to prefer - 

Personal Politics is Destructive:
one of the core characteristics of debate that allows the activity so much room for innovation and education is its relative seclusion from society. This allows debaters to test ideas. If the framework of debate is changed to become an aggressively activist forum for challenging societal oppression then the politicization of the activity will destroy the educational benefit gained from the laboratory of ideas. The oppressive elites will have an incentive to infiltrate and destroy the activity.

Alan Coverstone, M.A. Speech Communication from Wake Forest University and Assistant Dean at Montgomery Bell Academy, 1995 (“An Inward Glance: A Response To Mitchell's Outward Activist Turn” Debater’s Research Guide, http://groups.wfu.edu/debate/MiscSites/DRGArticles/Coverstone1995China.htm)
Second, Mitchell's ...illustrate this idea

Predictable Ground:
The negative could never prepare for all the potential combinations of link arguments to rhetoric, methodology, participation in debate norms, epistemology, ontology. This is especially problematic on the neg because we don’t have an affirmative to weigh against, which means we have to start at zero productive ground. Predictability comes before potential education because the game has to be fair for people to participate and gain the education.

Utopian Thinking Bad:
A) Impossible to win- No plan is ideal when compared to perfection, it is unreasonable to expect the Affirmative to be able to win if compared to perfection. 

B) Education- This type of thinking does not teach us the problem solution skills necessary to engage the pragmatic problems that will face us throughout our lives. The skills gained by policy comparisons outweigh the kritik impacts because the kritik impacts presume the judge can compare and evaluate the impacts, which is a skill that is undermined by the affirmative’s utopian thinking.