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The affirmative’s attempt to produce “green” energy allows the system to mask the underlying consumption and capitalization patterns that lead to the destruction of the environment. 

John Foster Professor of Sociology  and Dennis Soron from the University of Alberta  04 , (Ecology, capitalism, and the socialization of nature 2004 ) JXu

JBF: I think so. As you know, I've recently been quite critical
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of environmental approaches which simply take the imperative of capitalist growth for granted. 

Capitalism results in extinction—ecological destruction and unending warfare

International Review 1989 (The decomposition of capitalist society, 57:2 http://en.internationalism.org/node/3070)
Similarly, all the disasters that the ecologists blame on ‘technical progress' the growing
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no limit to the horror of this bloody monster that is decadent capitalism.

Denial of Utopias is living death
Marsh 95, Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University
 (JAMES L, CRITIQUE, ACTION, AND LIBERATION P. 334-
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it as normal and sane. The prevailing rationality is profoundly irrational.12

Our alternative-Vote Neg- We must reject capital in the everyday-this is the only strategy for breaking free 

Herod  04
James Herod author of several books on capitalism and social activist since 1968 Getting Free 2004 http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm 

It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely,
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who democratically and cooperatively self-determine the shape of their social world. 

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Oil prices will stabilize now unless OPEC floods the market
Gronholt-Pedersen 6/22 (Joseph, the Economist, “Oil Market Well Balanced; OPEC to Determine Short-Term Outlook -BP Economist” http://investing.businessweek.com/research/markets/news/article.asp?docKey=600-201206220519DOWJONESENRGYSVC000603-1&params=timestamp%7C%7C06/22/2012%205:19%20AM%20ET%7C%7Cheadline%7C%7COil%20Market%20Well%20Balanced%3B%20OPEC%20to%20Determine%20Short-Term%20Outlook%20-BP%20Economist%7C%7CdocSource%7C%7CDow%20Jones%20and%20Company%2C%20Inc.%7C%7Cprovider%7C%7CACQUIREMEDIA )
SINGAPOREThe global oil market is more balanced now than it was in 2011
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level, and they can do that for a while," he said.

Increasing US production reduces US consumption - That causes Saudi Arabia to flood the oil market and collapse prices– tanks other producers.
ERGO 2/1/12 [Provides a wide range of research and consulting services focused on oil and gas, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, citing eight sources from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, OPEC, and Middle East politics, ‘The Waning Era of Saudi Oil Dominance,’ http://www.ergo.net/ErgoSpecialReport_Saudi_Oil_Feb2012.pdf, ]

Saudi Arabia’s importance to global oil markets is due not solely to its immense reserves
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and slowing upstream expansion programs in countries that had sought high oil prices. 

That crushes the Russian economy and undermines support for the regime
KRAMER 12 – New York Times writer and editor (ANDREW E. “Higher Oil Prices to Pay for Campaign Promises” New York Times March 16, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/business/global/vladimir-putins-big-promises-need-fueling-by-high-oil-prices.html?_r=2?pagewanted=print Putin Needs)
MOSCOW — In American presidential politics, high oil prices are a problem. For
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plan, though, was never part of Mr. Putin’s stump speech.

Extinction
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 stability are intertwined to a degree that
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the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.

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LINK: The aff prescribes an otherizing discourse that serves to relegitimate our position of power- this seeks to affirm our rationality while assuming the non-western world is driven by irrational impulses
Gusterson ‘99
Gusterson, Hugh. “Nuclear Weapons and the Other in Western Imagination” Cultural Anthropology, 14.1. Feb 1999. http://www.jstor.org/stable/656531 accessed august 17, 2009.

Thus in Western discourse nuclear weapons are represented so that "theirs" are a
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is also to be found in U.S. national security discourse.

The nuclear pandora’s box has already been opened  the only way to avoid the racism inherent in global nuclear politics is to allow all states to arm
Gusterson ‘99
Hugh Gusterson, 1999, “Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination” Cultural Anthropology pp. 111-143 http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/656531.pdf

The second position, participation, is based on Kenneth Waltz’s argument that all countries
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to shift the balance of power in their client relationships with the superpowers.

The impact is perpetual war  racist dichotomies create Otherization that normalizes us to violence – war becomes inevitable on all levels of society
Mendieta ‘02
Eduardo Mendieta, 2002, “To Make Live and to Let Die – Foucault and Racism

This is where racism intervenes, not from without, exogenously, but from within
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of the living, then these threat and foes are biological in nature. 

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Silver supply is on the tight and on the brink of collapse but it will narrowly survive current crisis – new mining opportunities.
Angelo 7/30/12 (http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article35827.html Why Is Future Silver Supply More at Risk than Gold? Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012 Jul 30, 2012 - 12:34 PM By: Steve_St_Angelo)
Future Silver Supplies Are More At Risk Than Gold We have witnessed that as silver and copper mines age, their ore grades continue to decline.
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That is why it makes perfect sense that these underground high ore grade mines will take a premium in the future  basically, they utilize a higher EROI in their production. 

Solar panels use massive amounts of silver
Savinar ‘04
Matt Savinar (Political Science from the University of California at Davis) 2004 "The Peak Oil and Die-Off," http://www.unicamp.br/fea/ortega/eco/traducao-DieOff.pdf
The geographic areas most suited for large solar farms are typically very warm areas,
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require copious quantities of silver, a precious metal already in short supply. 

Low silver prices are key to china’s economy
Irish ‘10
Robert Irish <Investment Director Sound Profits>January 2010. “American Company Discovers Massive
‘Silver Vein’… Below China’s Great Wall” http://www.investorsdailyedge.com/promos/SilverMISML200.html?o=64045&s=65613&u=37047487&l=84547&g=189&r=Milo
China's simply gobbling up metals faster each year. And silver just moved to the
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year, silver consumption hit 888 million ounces. And it's headed higher.

Chinese economic unrest risks war with russia and nuclear winter
Sharavin 1
Alexander Sharavin, “The Third Threat,” Nezavisimoe Voennoe Obozrenie N. 27, September 28, 2001, WHAT THE PAPERS SAY (RUSSIA), October 1, 2001, LN.
Chinese propaganda has constantly been showing us skyscrapers in free trade zones in southeastern China
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is a realistic prospect - just like a war against NATO or Islamic extremists

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will condition expansion of nuclear power production in the United States on utilizing only evolutionary power reactors with double containment structures and stronger safety measures than current nuclear power plants in the United States, including the ability to withstand airplane collisions.

Currently, new plants would be generation 3+ designs that make meltdowns more likely
LYMAN Et al ‘7
Edwin Lyman, senior staff scientist in the UCS Global Security Program, Lisbeth Gronlund-co-director and senior scientist of the UCS Global Security Program. David Lochbaum is director of the nuclear safety project in the UCS Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, Nuclear power in a warming world: Assessing the Risks, Addressing the Challenges, p. 54-55, JT

U.S. utilities have shown a great deal of interest in the Westinghouse
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of a core meltdown is 100 times lower than that for today’s plants.
However, little experience with full-scale reactors operating at full power is available
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approach would be inconsistent with the “design objective.” It would also be 

Only conditioning the plan on eprS gives an economic incentive for safety and avoids risks of terrorism and accidents
LYMAN Et al ‘7
Edwin Lyman, senior staff scientist in the UCS Global Security Program, Lisbeth Gronlund-co-director and senior scientist of the UCS Global Security Program. David Lochbaum is director of the nuclear safety project in the UCS Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, Nuclear power in a warming world: Assessing the Risks, Addressing the Challenges, p. 7-8, JT

Of all the new reactor designs, only one—the Evolutionary Power Reactor (
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lose out in the marketplace to designs that cut costs by reducing safety.

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Unique internal link – the nation is in the biggest water shortage in 60 years and any more supply scarcity causes huge blackouts and nuclear melt.
Webber 7/23/12 (Will Drought Cause the Next Blackout? By MICHAEL E. WEBBER Published: July 23, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/opinion/will-drought-cause-the-next-blackout.html?_r=2andemc=eta1)
WE’RE now in the midst of the nation’s most widespread drought in 60 years,
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also suggest that droughts and heat waves may be more frequent and severe. 

And, solar power uses copious amounts of water – preffered cooling techniques and empirically proven.
Woody 2009 (AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. By TODD WOODY http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/energy-environment/30water.html?_r=1andpagewanted=all )
Published: September 29, 2009 — In a rural corner of Nevada reeling from
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wildlife, their desert solitude and, most of all, their water.

Blackouts causing rolling atomic explosions at every refinery – mass death.
Latynina ‘3 Yulia, Aug 18, http://www.worldpress.org/americas/1579.cfm
The scariest thing about the cascading power outages was not spoiled groceries in the fridge
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, regardless of whether someone sets off the detonator intentionally or by accident.