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Attempts to manage the world render Earth and its inhabitants as objects, awaiting the subjective United States’ federal government’s action.  This form of dualism renders everything a self-circulating resource at humanity’s disposal, revealing one way of better relating to the world, all the while eclipsing other modes of thought.

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. 6)

The danger of ...may never dream.

There is no end to technological thought and rationale – it will continue to find more destructive ways to control life and death.

Beckman 2k [Tad: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at Harvey Mudd College, “Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics,” http://www2.hmc.edu/~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html].

The threat of .....fabricate convincing arguments?

The standing reserve and the ontological damnation that comes from it outweighs nuclear war--life has no meaning in a framework that sustains the standing reserve and denies us an authentic relationship with being.

Zimmerman 94 [Michael: Professor of Philosophy at Tulane. Contesting the Earth’s Future, p.104].

Heidegger asserted that ..."disclosed" by humanity

Our alternative is to detach and release. We must learn to let things be what they are – this does not mean a retreat from technology or surrender to the inevitable, rather, it means a reorientation of how we relate to the world and the beings within it.

Sabatino 07 [Charles J.: professor of philosophy at Daemen College “A Heideggerian Reflection on the Prospects of Technology” reprinted in Janus Head 10(1) www.janushead.org/10-1/sabatino.pdf p. 72-73].

The point of seeing .....shared gift of world?

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The affirmative’s ethical imperative perpetuates and legitimizes speciesism
Tittle 98 – Peg, author; former Professor of Philosophy
[“The Humanist View of Animal Rights,” http://tittle.humanists.net/humview.htm]cn
First, if humanism ....condone sport hunting.
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
effects on animals.[26]
The alternative is to vote negative to reject speciesism by critically reorienting ourselves against the 1AC. Our creation of a space for reflection is a key step in ending non-human oppression.
Williams 8 – Nancy, Philosopher at Wofford College
[“Affected Ignorance and Animal Suffering” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2008) 21:371-384]
Epistemological and moral
subsequent animal suffering).
 

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Capital-intensive, state directed alternative energy co-opts alternative lifestyles and counterculture possibilities into the corporate mainstream
Leigh Glover, PhD, Assistant Professor and CEEP Policy Fellow; 2006, "From love-ins to logos: charting the demise of renewable energy as a social movement", pp249-270. http://ceep.udel.edu/energy/publications/2006_es_love-ins_to_logos.pdf [JWu]

Contemporary renewable... any absolute sense.

This massively consumerist alternative energy divides environmentalists, slows environmental gains, and props up exploitative capitalism
Leigh Glover, PhD, Assistant Professor and CEEP Policy Fellow; 2006, "From love-ins to logos: charting the demise of renewable energy as a social movement", pp249-270. http://ceep.udel.edu/energy/publications/2006_es_love-ins_to_logos.pdf [JWu]

Environmentalists divided ... energy enterprises.

This support of the capitalist market order props up endless violence in the name of benign interests
Mike Cole, University of Brighton, 2004, "US imperialism, transmodernism and education: a Marxist critique," Policy Futures in Education, Vol 2, No 3/4

Smith argues that.....North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 

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There are HUNDREDS of types
World Nuclear Assocation 10
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf61.html
The World Nuclear Association (WNA), ...were commissioned in 1950s and 1960s.
CP-
Counterplan Text: The United States Federal Government should offer power purchase agreements for small modular nuclear reactors to supply power to military bases in the United States, excluding all small modular reactor designs utilizing Pebble technology.

U.S. D.O.E. is considering Pebble Bed SMRs. Makhijani and Boyd, 2011 Makhijani has a Ph.d in Nuclear Physics and is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Dr. Boyd is the Director of the Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power”, IEERSMR’
Despite 50 ... costs and problems.
Pebble Technology SMRs have the highest risk for major accidents. Makhijani and Boyd, 2011 Makhijani has a Ph.d in Nuclear Physics and is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Dr. Boyd is the Director of the Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power”, IEERSMR’
However, graphite catches ... loss of coolant accident.
A single accident can shut down all new nuclear construction this takes out any long term solvency for the Aff. Three Mile Island proves. Chew, 2010 http://miter.mit.edu/print/article/disrupting-coal-modular-nuclear-reactors
The Three Mile Island ... industry in the 1980s9.

 
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The DOD budget’s focused on the Asia pivot now---new tradeoffs collapse the whole thing
Todd Harrison 12, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Priorities, 8/24/2012, ANALYSIS OF THE FY 2013 DEFENSE BUDGET AND SEQUESTRATION, http://www.csbaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Analysis-of-the-FY-2013-Defese-Budget.pdf
The Fiscal Year (FY) ... its strategic guidance.
REC reliance doubles energy costs---plan buys electricity and then buys redundant RECs
GAO 9 – Government Accountability Office, December 2009, “Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs to Take Actions to Address Challenges in Meeting Federal Renewable Energy Goals,” http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10104.pdf
When DOD consumes ... to purchase replacement certificates.
That destroys the budget
DOD Energy Blog 10 – “Making the Numbers: From Energy Goals to Business Cases,” 9/14/10, http://dodenergy.blogspot.com/2010/09/making-numbers-from-energy-goals-to.html
At a time when ... BBTUs of energy conservation.
Budget tradeoffs undermine the U.S. pivot to Asia---nuclear war  
Colby 11 – Elbridge Colby, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, served as policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense’s Representative to the New START talks, expert advisor to the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission, August 10, 2011, “Why the U.S. Needs its Liberal Empire,” The Diplomat, online: http://the-diplomat.com/2011/08/10/why-us-needs-its-liberal-empire/2/?print=yes
But the pendulum ... is too important to be so wasted.
 
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Status quo solves grid cyber vulnerability  
Paul Clark 12, MA Candidate, Intelligence/Terrorism Studies, American Military University; Senior Analyst, Chenega Federal Systems, 4/28/12, “The Risk of Disruption or Destruction of Critical U.S. Infrastructure by an Offensive Cyber Attack,” http://blog.havagan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Risk-of-Disruption-or-Destruction-of-Critical-U.S.-Infrastructure-by-an-Offensive-Cyber-Attack.pdf
An attack against the ... cyber security measures (Gohn and Wheelock 2010).

Squo solves islanding---the military adapted  
Michael Aimone 9-12, Director, Business Enterprise Integration, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment), 9/12/12, Statement Before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20-%20Aimone.pdf
DoD’s facility energy ...e Base in Mississippi, to support base recovery. 

The United States Federal Government should substantially increase investment in smart microgrid technology for military installations in Alaska via a diverse portfolio tailored to individual installation circumstances, including non-nuclear renewable energies for on-site generation, increased backup generation capacity, improvements in energy efficiency and energy storage, intelligent local energy management, and accelerated implementation of the SPIDERS project.

Smart microgrids solve DOD grid vulnerability---the combination of the CP’s mechanisms resolves the problems with each individual component
SERDP 12 – the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, DoD’s environmental science and technology program, executed in partnership with DOE and EPA, 7/10/12, “DoD Study Finds Microgrids Offer Improved Energy Security for DoD Installations,” http://www.serdp.org/News-and-Events/News-Announcements/Program-News/DoD-study-finds-microgrids-offer-improved-energy-security-for-DoD-installations
Advanced microgrids offer ... meet those needs.

China tawian
No China-Taiwan war
Corson ‘4 (Trevor Corson, Writer on East Asia, The Atlantic Monthly, “Strait-jacket”, Volume 294, Issue 5, December, 2004, Proquest)
On some level, of course... economic growth. 

Nuke leadership
US imperialism turns case and causes extinction
John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, Naked Imperialism, September 2005, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm
 “What is at stake today is not the ... history of imperialism.
The only option national restraint – intellectuals must devote their energies to countering U.S. arrogance, or else we will inevitably be overwhelmed by an angry world. A withdrawl of all hegemonic power solves all conflict Wu, ‘98
Edieth Y. Wu, professor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University, SADDAM HUSSEIN AS HOSTES HUMANI GENERIS? SHOULD THE U.S. INTERVENE?, 1998, 26 Syracuse J. Int'l L. and Com. 55
U.S. restraint is the first ... malevolent, checked. 

prolif
Large-scale SMR deployment causes extinction
Gar Smith 11, Editor Emeritus of the Earth Island Journal, Summer 2011, “Don’t Mini-mize the Dangers of Nuclear Power,” Earth Island Journal, http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/dont_mini-mize_the_dangers_of_nuclear_power/
The radiation from Japan’s crippled ... progressive move you can make is to step back.’”

Plan causes massive IAEA overstretch---only SMRs link---turns prolif  
Dr. Edwin Lyman 11, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 14, 2011, Testimony Before the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, “An Examination of the Safety and Economics of Light Water Small Modular Reactors,” http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/lyman-appropriations-subcom-7-14-11.pdf
 The distributed deployment ... difficult, if feasible at all.

Lack of effective inspections turns the whole case---makes SMRs worse for prolif, safety and security than large reactors
Dr. Edwin Lyman 11, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 14, 2011, Testimony Before the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, “An Examination of the Safety and Economics of Light Water Small Modular Reactors,” http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/lyman-appropriations-subcom-7-14-11.pdf
Proponents of small modular reactors ...large reactors.

SMRs aren’t prolif resistant and slow deployment
ITA 11 – International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, February 2011, “The Commercial Outlook for U.S. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors,” http://trade.gov/mas/ian/build/groups/public/@tg_ian/@nuclear/documents/webcontent/tg_ian_003185.pdf
Some U.S. SMR vendors ... mid term.