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May, if life is sheer toil, a man
Lift his eyes and say: so
I too wish to be? Yes. As long as Kindness
The Pure, still stays with his heart, man
Not unhappily measures himself
Against the godhead. Is God unknown?
Is he manifest like the sky? I’d sooner
Believe the latter. It’s the measure of man.
Full of merit, yet poetically, man
Dwells on this earth. But no purer
Is the shade of the starry night,
If I might put it so, than
Man, who’s called an image of the godhead.
Is there a measure on the earth? There is
None.
— Hölderlin
I have committed the worst of sins
One can commit. I have not been
Happy. Let the glaciers of oblivion
Take and engulf me, mercilessly.
My parents bore me for the risky
And the beautiful game of life,
For earth, water, air and fire.
I failed them, I was not happy.
Their youthful hope for me unfulfilled.
I applied my mind to the symmetric
Arguments of art, its web of trivia.
They willed me bravery. I was not brave.
It never leaves me. Always at my side,
That shadow of a melancholy man.
-Borges 

We abandon control…. We abandon the desire to know… we question what it means to know… the resolution tells us to reduce restrictions or to increase incentives for technology… more technology… more technology… more technology… more technology… less control…. More technology… but what is technology? What does it mean to build? What does it mean to create energy? What is “alternative energy”… what is energy … We want to know, but we question how we know.. and what it means to know … But at the same time we don’t want to know… We abandon the desire to know if the price of “knowing” is too high… but we embrace knowing if the cost is revealed to us…
Western managerial practices know what it means to know…. To know means to produce… to know means to consume… to know means to make money… to know means to spend money… to know means to store energy… to know means to exploit energy… to know means to USE energy… to know means to embrace Plato
Mother earth is not happy with us… so the resolution tells us to produce more technology under the guise of final solutions…. Because through final solutions we are able to “know” and through this “knowing” we are able to solve…. But solve for what? Do we solve the paradox of knowing? What is a paradox?
To know is the reason we are faced with ecological destruction… through knowing we were able to justify destruction… via enlightened western practices… and the resolution tells us to keep knowing… Because it has worked so well up to this point! Actually never mind scratch that We don’t actually believe that… we love the West
But again Payton and I abandon the desire to know, but we still want to know… but in order to know we must abandon control… through this abandonment we find the middle ground… we start with the resolution… we embrace the desire to know in so far as you don’t understand what we’re talking about, but we step outside of the desire to control… So let’s begin…
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and/or substantially increase financial incentives for energy production in the United States of one or more of the following: coal, crude oil, natural gas, nuclear power, solar power, wind power.

Contention One: don’t build your house on sand
We begin with building the floor… that was quick… now onward!! To the west
Next the high beams build build build!!!
Our advocacy is a mode letting beings Be that focuses on dwelling. There are two processes critical to achieving this mode of Being.
First: We must learn to Build. Building calls out to us—teaching us to dwell and think in the world… we must escape the house of knowing… and replace it with the house of being… the house of middle man… destroy the house of knowing … destroy… destroy
Heidegger 71 (Martin. “Building Dwelling Thinking” in Poetry, Language, Thought. Pg. 158-161.)
The making of such… sake of dwelling.
Now the sheet rock look at that MASSIVE ERECTION of sheet rock!!!
Second: We must learn to Think. Our poetic discourse constitutes the major shift toward thinking that is critical to augment the physical act of building. Only the culmination of these in dwelling can bring change that is critical to saving the planet……….. through learning how to think… we may begin to understand what it means to know
Heidegger 71 (Martin. “…Poetically Man Dwells…” in Poetry, Language, Thought. Pg. 227.)
But dwelling occurs …structure of dwelling.
The ROOF --- THE HOUSE IS COMPLETE… THE ERECTION IS FULLY ERECT!  
We will defend both the physical act of building energy stations and also the poetic thinking engendered by our actions. The advantage we claim is learning to dwell.  Rather than attempting to master and control the world, we will let beings Be. In dwelling we are released from the endless destruction inaugurated by the Will to Will. We can feel our actions through everyone around us… we can feel the wings of a butterfly flap from thousands of miles away… we are one… we are all… We fully understand the phrase: There are two ways of tilling the soil… the house is now complete…. Please step foot into your new home…. Your new home of thinking… but , approach this home with caution and with endurance…. To understand what it means to know and to understand what it means to produce and to consume and to create we must accept that it is a slow process….. and we must learn from one another ….
Zimmerman 81 (Michael, Prof of Philo at Tulane and Clinical Professor of Psychology at Tulane Medical. Eclipse of the Self pp. 245-8 1981)
Under the domination …Christianity calls “grace.”

Contention Two: Castrating the ERECTION
Have the past struggles succeeded?
What has succeeded? Yourself? Your nation?
 Nature?
Now understand me well—It is provided in the
 essence of things, that from any fruition of suc-
 cess, no matter what, shall come forth something
 to make a greater struggle necessary.
—Walt Whitman, “Poem of the Road” s. 53, Leaves of Grass, 1860
Crises are inevitable. We don’t claim to solve for all the harms of either energy or destructive modes of Being. Even in the event of political and practical successes, we affirm the possibility of new and “greater struggles” that lie beyond our narrow scope of perception. It is the call for quick fixes and final solutions that re-creates ever-escalating catastrophes. Only through dwelling can we escape crisis-driven ontology and let Being reveal itself  
All paths are equally dangerous, but only consciously risking ourselves can rescue thought from its apocalyptic preoccupation with calculation. Such openness to insecurity keeps alive the questioning that is necessary to prevent the conditions that led Heidegger to Nazism
Dillon 96 (Michael. Politics of Security: Towards a political philosophy of continental thought. pg. 32-33)
While we …alive within you.
Here’s one more card that says that we’re right…. Because we now KNOW! We know what it means to KNOW … vote for us because we finally understand KNOWING
McWhorter 92 (Ladelle, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 4-5)
Every academic …cannot be separated.

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Observation 1. Inherency.  
The pace of conversion of United States military grade HEU to civilian energy production is decreasing in the status quo.
Stockton, 2010 [http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/reports/nuclear-security-safety/downblending-heu/nss-nwc-20100914.html#Intro Peter Stockton, Senior Investigator, has thirty years of experience investigating waste and fraud throughout the federal government. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Stockton served as Special Assistant to Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson as his personal troubleshooter on physical and cyber security in the nuclear weapons complex. Prior to that, for twenty-two years, Mr. Stockton was the senior investigator on the House Energy and Power and the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees of the Energy and Commerce Committee. During the 1970s, he investigated most of the major defense contractors and oil companies, the diversion of bomb-grade uranium to Israel, and the death of Karen Silkwood. In the 1980's and early 1990's, he investigated the security and effectiveness of the nuclear weapons production program and defense contractor fraud.]
Yet, the U.S. ...conversion to LEU.
 
Plan Text: The Commander and Chief of the United States should officially declare that 300 metric tons of Highly Enriched Uranium currently restricted from civilian energy production processes is in excess of United State Military needs. 

 
Advantage 1. Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism.
Scenario 1 is Theft:

A) HEU stock piles drastically increase the acquisition of nuclear weapons by sophisticated nation states and terrorist organizations. 

Bleek and Holgate 2009 (Phillip C., Laura S. H. Nuclear threat Initiative MINIMIZING CIVIL HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM STOCKS BY 2015: A FORWARD-LOOKING ASSESSMENT OF U.S.-RUSSIAN COOPERATION http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12590andpage=89 Philipp C. Bleek, Center for a New American Security and Laura S. H. Holgate, Nuclear Threat Initiative)

The threat of ... is to be achieved. 

B)   Terrorists can acquire and have the will to use nuclear weapons 

Arbuckle 8 (Larry J. Arbuckle, Lieutenant, United States Navy, June 2008, “THE DETERRENCE OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM THROUGH AN ATTRIBUTION CAPABILITY,” http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Jun/08Jun_Arbuckle.pdf)

Of course to ...would be determined (Bunn, 2006, p. 116).

C)  A nuclear terrorist attack causes super power war

Ayson 2010, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, (“After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld)

A terrorist nuclear attack, ... with a devastating response.

D)  Nuclear terrorism causes extinction – there are no diplomatic checks on terrorist organizations
Sid-Ahmed 4 (Mohamed Sid-Ahmed; former member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Egypt, leading member of the National Progressive Unionist Party, and leading journalist for Al-Ahmar; Accessed June 25, 2012; http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm; Written August 26, 2004; “Extinction!”)
The advent of ... will all be losers.
E) Cutting excess stock of HEU decreases risk of nuke terrorism

Stockton 2010 [http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/reports/nuclear-security-safety/downblending-heu/nss-nwc-20100914.html#Intro Peter Stockton, Senior Investigator, has thirty years of experience investigating waste and fraud throughout the federal government. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Stockton served as Special Assistant to Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson as his personal troubleshooter on physical and cyber security in the nuclear weapons complex. Prior to that, for twenty-two years, Mr. Stockton was the senior investigator on the House Energy and Power and the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees of the Energy and Commerce Committee. During the 1970s, he investigated most of the major defense contractors and oil companies, the diversion of bomb-grade uranium to Israel, and the death of Karen Silkwood. In the 1980's and early 1990's, he investigated the security and effectiveness of the nuclear weapons production program and defense contractor fraud.]
When President Barack ...-24,000 warheads

F) Even if the risk is relatively low the consequences are too high to ignore

Allison ‘7 (Graham, Douglas Dillon Prof. Gov. and Dir. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs – Harvard U. JFK School of Government, National Interest, “Symposium: Apocalypse When?” November/December, L/N)

Mueller is entitled ... underestimate the risk. 
Scenario 2-Proliferation
A)  Proliferation is increasing and the modernization of weapons and only serves to increase instability. Nuclear disarmament is key to halting.
Ban Ki-moon August 29th (2012 , China Daily Pursue peace, destroy weapons http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-08/29/content_15714246.htm)

Last month, competing ...support of all nations.

B) Declaration of excess nuclear material leads to global anti-proliferation modeling, increases leadership in nonproliferation.
Podvig, 2012 [Researcher, United National Disarmament Agency, https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vandq=cache:KXGI0mQTUgwJ:www.unidir.org/pdf/ouvrages/pdf-1-92-9045-012-C-en.pdf+heu+downblendingandhl=enandgl=usandpid=blandsrcid=ADGEEShoOf3a4tgCUCOSBBm7IubfL-KYYR0EcYxEeXBZMRtdk_ZaeHusuPxOKJbbWMNzn_WVd1bt2It9VWoFfuTRFDwJVDHd_EkpcxZX2jQBLSZHV7J__g1jalG_s2ZoOP7A8xULp0dIandsig=AHIEtbRM3B32vWL7_H1SlyXQQqPjzlAXTw]
Declarations of excess ... to terrorists.
C) Prolif drastically increases the risk of accidents – guarantees nuclear war

Sturm 09 – Fellow at the National Truman Security Project, a national security based institute in Washington DC   (Frankie, “Nuclear Weapons: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century, Truman National Security Project”)AA
Accidents happen, but the price of a nuclear accident is impermissible. Yet, past incidents over the last several decades far less known than “Chernobyl” could very well have led to more catastrophic results: 1979, U.S. Mistakes Computer Exercise for Soviet Nuclear Strike. When a realistic training ... gravity to the threat.

D) Nuclear war leads to extinction; famine, ecosystem collapse and toxic chemicals
Alan Philips, Dr. with Physicians for Global Survival, 10/2000 “Nuclear War Revisited,” http://www.peace.ca/nuclearwinterrevisited.htm 

Deaths from world... damaged storage tanks.

E)  Following through with commitments to reducing HEU are key to increasing diplomacy
Bleek and Holgate 2009 ( Phillip C., Laura S. H. Nuclear threat Initiative MINIMIZING CIVIL HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM STOCKS BY 2015: A FORWARD-LOOKING ASSESSMENT OF U.S.-RUSSIAN COOPERATION http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12590andpage=89 Philipp C. Bleek, Center for a New American Security and Laura S. H. Holgate, Nuclear Threat Initiative) 

If civil HEU ... to that question. 

Observation 2. Solvency:
A) Only the President can remove the HEU restriction.
Stockton, 2010 [http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/reports/nuclear-security-safety/downblending-heu/nss-nwc-20100914.html#Intro Peter Stockton, Senior Investigator, has thirty years of experience investigating waste and fraud throughout the federal government. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Stockton served as Special Assistant to Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson as his personal troubleshooter on physical and cyber security in the nuclear weapons complex. Prior to that, for twenty-two years, Mr. Stockton was the senior investigator on the House Energy and Power and the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees of the Energy and Commerce Committee. During the 1970s, he investigated most of the major defense contractors and oil companies, the diversion of bomb-grade uranium to Israel, and the death of Karen Silkwood. In the 1980's and early 1990's, he investigated the security and effectiveness of the nuclear weapons production program and defense contractor fraud.]
Another step the ... available for downblending.

B) The US has at least 300 metric tons of HEU to be excess of military needs. Plan increases U.S. international non-proliferation efforts, fissle material security efforts, reduces the risks of nuclear terrorism.
Stockton, 2010 [http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/reports/nuclear-security-safety/downblending-heu/nss-nwc-20100914.html#Intro Peter Stockton, Senior Investigator, 

The U.S. has a ...To do the same.[123
C) Every kilogram converted from HEU is totally eliminated from the risk of nuclear terrorism.
 Leach, Nov. 2011 [Bob N. Leach of Brattleboro, now retired, spent 45 years in the nuclear industry, many of them as radiation protection manager at Vermont Yankee., http://www.sentinelsource.com/opinion/columnists/guest/hail-the-megatons-to-megawatts-program-by-bob-n-leach/article_dc9fcaf7-708b-583f-9805-6d69804d5fdf.html]
Conversion of ... crude terrorist weapon.

Advantage 2: Peak Uranium
A. The United States will have a supply gap and price spikes by 2013, which leads to peak uranium by 2015. End of Megatons to Megawatts program
Sterck June 8, 2012 (Edward Sterck covers uranium, diamond and platinum group metal mining companies for BMO Capital Markets. He joined BMO in 2007, prior to which he was a mining analyst at Hargreave Hale. Before working in mining research, he spent more than four years trading government bond futures on a proprietary basis. Sterck holds a Bachelor of Science in geology with honors from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London., http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article35048.html)
The downblending of ...years after 2014.

B.  This will cause the US to mine in the four corners region, causing further destruction on native land
Brown and Lambert 2010 (http://nativecases.evergreen.edu/collection/cases/blowing-in-the-wind.html)
 The Navajo Nation ...which is still present. (Giusti)

C. The legacy of racism enables exploitation of Native Americans, legitimizing radioactive colonialism
Bullard, (Clark Atlanta University Environmental Justice Resource Center Director) 2002 (Robert D., “Poverty, pollution, and environmental racism: strategies for building healthy and sustainable communities” NationalBlack Justice Environmental Network. July 2. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/PovpolEj.html)
While Native peoples ... other social problems.

D. This means a systematic genocide of Native Americans
Brook (Cal Berkeley Sociology Professor) 1998 (Dan, "The Environmental Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste." American Journal of Economics and Sociology January 1998, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_n1_v57/ai_20538772/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1)
Genocide against Native ... lives of Native American

The ONLY way to prevent peak uranium production scenario is to maintain the conversion of U.S. and Russian military uranium to civilian use---plan solves
Dittmar, 2011 [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1106/1106.3617v1.pdf; “The End of Cheap Uranium,” Researcher at the Institute for Particle Physics, Switzerland.]

Table 4: The uranium ... are discussed in the text.

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Scenario 1- Birds
Over 500,000 flying species are killed annually by wind turbines - CRAIG RUCKER AND PAUL DRIESSEN August 2012 CFACT NEWS Wind energy's bird and bat butchery Industrial wind turbine subsidies are driving eagles and other majestic birds to extinction.
Meanwhile, well over
insects, and many more.
The bird and bat butchery is the most unconscionable and unsustainable aspect of wind pseudo-power. CRAIG RUCKER AND PAUL DRIESSEN August 2012 CFACT NEWS Wind energy's bird and bat butchery Industrial wind turbine subsidies are driving eagles and other majestic birds to extinction.
In the 86-square-mile
shut up” guidelines.
Fish and wildlife services turn a blind eye, and give a license to kill to operators CRAIG RUCKER AND PAUL DRIESSEN August 2012 CFACT NEWS Wind energy's bird and bat butchery Industrial wind turbine subsidies are driving eagles and other majestic birds to extinction.
The FWS turns
for,” says Wiegand
Scenario 2- Bats
Wind turbines slaughter numerous bats, which are key to nature
Justin Blum, Washington Post Staff Writer, 1-1-05, Washington Post, “Researchers Alarmed by Bat Deaths from Wind Turbines,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39941-2004Dec31.html

Jessica Kerns thought her
 detect the turbines.
Bats are key pollinators- From tequila to the 'tree of life', bats are nature's invaluable allies By Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle, Honorary Ambassador for the Year of the Bat campaign Bonn, 21 January 2011
Were you aware t
guano fertilizer.
Many of our common foods rely on bat pollination- Bats are essential to biodiversity From tequila to the 'tree of life', bats are nature's invaluable allies By Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle, Honorary Ambassador for the Year of the Bat campaign Bonn, 21 January 2011
More than 1,200
its bat pollinators.
Loss of Biodiversity leads to extinction. Diner 94 [David N., Military Law Review Winter 43 Mil. L. Rev. 161 THE ARMY AND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: WHO'S ENDANGERING WHOM? Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army.]

The main premise
closer to the abyss
Advantage 2- Anthropocentism
The ignorance of the status quo wind operators is a paradigmatic example of humanist cultural criticism - this perpetuates speciesism  and dooms society to failure
Deckha 6 – Maneesha, UC Hastings College of the Law
http://www.animallaw.info/articles/arus17hstwlj1.htm
Cultural critics have
of non-human animals.
Speciesism makes possible “systematic beastilization,” which justifies non-criminal putting to death of the Other – this is the root cause of all oppression
Rossini 6 – Manuela, Postdoctoral Fellow at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
[Sept, “To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism,” Kritikos, Volume 3, http://intertheory.org/Rossini]cn
What is equally sobering
disproportionate effects on animals.[26]
Solvency-
The CWP turbine is safer, lower to the ground, and produces twice the energy it creates
Energy Matters September 3rd (http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_articleandarticle_id=3364)
Mr Green says
it creates."
The CWP turbine eliminates external blades, solving for aerial species killing
Buisness Wire August 29th (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120829006327/en/Sigma-Design-Company-Bird-Friendly-Wind-Power-Brings)
The blades
past the tower.
PTC spur wind technology innovations.  Wheeler, 2012 {Energy policy analyst, http://trumanproject.org/doctrine-blog/report-from-tehachapi-why-wind-power-means-jobs-security/]
Part of the reason
working in right now.
 PTC is the key to wind energy technology innovation. American Sustainable Business Council, August, 2012 [http://asbcouncil.org/renew-production-tax-credit]
Pressure is increasing
continue to flourish.
PTC’s are key to allowing new technologies to flourish. Harder, 2012 {http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/tax-reform-whats-at-stake-for.php; Environmental Journalist}
To encourage