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Obama has the lead, but it’s still close – likely victory for Obama, but romeny can still win if given an opportunity

Nate Silver 9/16 “Sept. 16: Watching the Clock and Awaiting the Unknown”, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

The evidence seems … over, by any means

Spending unpopular—plan ensures a Romney victory

Heinze 7/25

Christian, Staff Writer, The Hill, “Romney could cash in on deficit issues”, http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/christian-heinze/239863-romney-could-cash-in-on-deficit-issues

With the unemployment … percent of independents.

Obama win key to EPA regs – solves CO2 and oil dependence

Star Ledger 12

 (6/3, http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2012/06/scary_times_for_environment_--.html)

The grim report … into the atmosphere.

EPA Regulations are the only way to solve global warming and climate leadership

Parenti ’10

(Christian Parenti, a contributing editor at The Nation and a visiting scholar at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, at the CUNY Grad Center, 4-20-10, “The Nation: The Case for EPA Action,” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126129216)

On April 1 … its job again.

The Impact is Extinction

Tickell 8

[Oliver, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction]

We need to … would undoubtedly die.

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Romney supports Iran strikes

Daly ‘11

Corbett, Contributor, November 11, CBS News, “Romney and Gingrich willing to attack Iran to prevent them from getting nukes”, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57323692-503544/romney-and-gingrich-willing-to-attack-iran-to-prevent-them-from-getting-nukes/

Former Massachusetts Gov. … weapon," Romney said.

Strikes escalate and draw in powers against the United States – ensures defeat

Kahl 12

Professor @ Georgetown, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, Colin, “Not Time to Attack Iran,” Foreign Affairs, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137031/colin-h-kahl/not-time-to-attack-iran?page=show

Keeping other states … anti-Western resistance.

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Sustainably dominates energy debates tying together society and nature to justify manipulations of the environment- has created a technosientific-discourse to enframe the environment

G. Goeminne 10

Published online: 26 September 2010 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Centre Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Krijsgkundestraat 33, 1160 Brussels, Belgium

Entering “sustainable technology” … are hardly recognized.

The affirmative assumes role of a policymaker dependent upon rational calculation utilizing technology as is to assert its master over nature and control of the environment. This assessment of being conflates modernity and technology thus closes down new modes of social and environmental interaction in favor of efficiency and production of energy.

Irwin 2008

Irwin, Ruth. "Technological Enframing." Heidegger, Politics, Climate Change and Risking It All. New York: ContinuumInternational Group, 2008. N. pag. Print.

The narrow perception of … science of govermentality (Foucault, 1979). 

Planetary destruction is inevitable absent a reconceptualization of our relationship with the earth

McWhorter 92 (Ladelle, Asst Prof of Philosophy @ Northeast Missouri State Univ., Heidegger and the Earth, p. x)

In "Earth-T…  destroying the earth.

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Text: the Department of Energy should provide loan guarantees to private industry for the development and implementation of solar energy for military facilities in the United States.

Counterplan solves the aff—DOE loans for installation on military bases are empirically successful

DOE 11

“Energy Department Loan Guarantee Would Support Large-Scale Rooftop Solar Power for U.S. Military Housing” [http://energy.gov/articles/energy-department-loan-guarantee-would-support-large-scale-rooftop-solar-power-us-military] September 7

Washington D.C. – U.S. Energy … from renewable sources.

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same as mk

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Striving for an absolute justice degenerates into new forms of exclusion – the deconstruction of the legal order. Only a politics that comes to terms with the necessity and inevitability of discrimination can succeed

Hägglund 4 (PhD candidate @ Cornell University. Author of Chronophobia: Essays on Time and Finitude, also edited and wrote the preface to the Swedish translation of Derrida's Spectres de Marx) 4 (Martin, diacritics 34.1, 40-71, The Necessity of Discrimination, MUSE)

If law is essentially deconstructible, the undecidable ... which instance will be more violent than the other.32

Assuming a certain Justice through the law and then juxtaposed against different populations through the dichotomous relations normatively established, the affirmative results in ontological violence as difference translates into Otherness

Mansfield 11 Nick, PhD, Associate Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Derrida and the Culture Debate: Autoimmunity, Law and Decision, Macquarie Law Journal, Online 12

“In the beginning of justice there will have been force,... where it arrives, as law, it has always already been violent.

Our alternative is that the judge should vote negative to reject the aff’s universal ethical justification for the plan and to affirm the necessity of constantly reinventing justice- the aff’s ethics seeks the perfect ethical system- this is the wrong goal because it assumes some ultimate ethical value that we should be trying to achieve- our advocacy instead accepts the hard road that is justice and realizes that each decision must be unique, a true choice, rather than just the application of a rule

Dillon 99 (Michael, Prof. of IR @ U of Lancaster, Another Justice, Political Theory Vol. 27, No. 2, April 1999, 155-175) Ontopolitical interpretation indicates that the .. manifests itself continuously as the call of another Justice.

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1NC CARDS
Their claim of inevitability entrenches technological fatalism and destroys all ethics
Cheshire 02
William P. Cheshire, Jr., MD, MA, FAAN, is Professor of Neurology He is Senior Research Fellow on Neuroethics for The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. http://cbhd.org/content/human-cloning-and-ethics-inevitability
Does the pronouncement of inevitability signify… where the future holds possibilities both good and bad.

Claims that technologies are inevitable creates a mindset that allows treating people as means
Chandler 2000
Daniel Chandler Lecturer in Media Theory University Department of Education University of Wales Technological or Media Determinism http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tdet07.html
The 'Technological Imperative'¶ Also related to technological… technical solutions' what are usually called 'technical fixes' (Mowshowitz 1976, pp. 256-7). 

An ethic that allows treating others as objects risks extinction
Simons ‘00
Jennifer, Charles University and Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic  Only A Question of Time: Science, Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/ethics/issues/scientific/simons_only-question-time.htm
What has been lost is the idea of the good as "Other", the self in contemplation… the most important thing to come out of the mine is the miner.  

BLOCK CARDS
The discourse of technological inevitability is a framing question
Leonardi 08
PAUL M. LEONARDI¶ Northwestern University Academy of Management Review¶ 2008, Vol. 33, No. 4, 975–984.¶ INDETERMINACY AND THE DISCOURSE OF¶ INEVITABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL¶ TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/indeterminacy.pdf
CONSTRUCTING DETERMINACY THROUGH A… can sit¶ outside of culture and act on it in predictable¶ ways.

Empirically, a discourse of inevitable functions to destroy human agency
Leonardi 08
PAUL M. LEONdARDI¶ Northwestern University Academy of Management Review¶ 2008, Vol. 33, No. 4, 975–984.¶ INDETERMINACY AND THE DISCOURSE OF¶ INEVITABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL¶ TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/indeterminacy.pdf
Michele Jackson and I (Leonardi and Jackson,¶ 2004)… align new technology with existing¶ cultural practice.

The discourse of inevitably destroys human agency and legitimates external forms of violence
Lipman 04
Pauline Lipman is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research and Director of the Institute for Teacher Development and Research at DePaul University¶ Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies¶ Volume 2, Number 1 Education Accountability and Repression of Democracy Post-9/11
 (March 2004)¶ ISSN 1740-2743http:www.jceps.com/?pageID=articleandarticleID=23
To varying degrees, in the schools I studied, there was… occupation of Iraq are the only possible paths to a safer world.

Evaluation of consequences is the utmost ethical act – their ethic allows infinite violence
Williams ‘5
(Michael, Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales—Aberystwyth, The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations, p. 174-176)

A commitment to an ethic of consequences… condition of, and imperative toward, responsibility.
Discourse shapes reality in the context of technological inevitability claims
Leonardi 08
PAUL M. LEONARDI¶ Northwestern University Academy of Management Review¶ 2008, Vol. 33, No. 4, 975–984.¶ INDETERMINACY AND THE DISCOURSE OF¶ INEVITABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL¶ TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/indeterminacy.pdf
Whether recognizing the potential outcomes¶ of their actions… constraints and possibilities on¶ their activities” (1989: 303).

The discourse of inevitability socially constructs relationships toward technology
Leonardi 08
PAUL M. LEONARDI¶ Northwestern University Academy of Management Review¶ 2008, Vol. 33, No. 4, 975–984.¶ INDETERMINACY AND THE DISCOURSE OF¶ INEVITABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL¶ TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/indeterminacy.pdf
A Discourse of inevitability works… intervening¶ socially in the “natural order” of the¶ world.

The consensus position is that discourse shapes reality
Spath 12
Philipp Späth ¶ IFP—Institute of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg, ¶ Sustainability 2012, 4(6), 1256-1273; doi:10.3390/su4061256¶ Article¶ Understanding the Social Dynamics of Energy Regions—The Importance of Discourse Analysis¶ Published: 15 June 2012¶ My emphasis on the importance of discursive… world but rather to ‘create’ and shape it.

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The affirmative shapes a view of nature and constructs the world through the 1AC – their attempt to create a utopian vision of the world that resolves war and apocalypse is an attempt to cover the Lack – the holes in society. This leads to the annihilation of those who disturb our conception of the affirmative
STAVRAKAKIS – VISITING FELLOW IN GOV'T, UNIV. OF ESSEX – '99
Yannis, Lacan and the Political, pg. 63-5
What constantly emerges from this exposition is that when ... symbolic/imaginary nexus producing reality.
Alternative: must maintain distance towards the social order and to open the lack – our alternative is to endorse the gap between ideologies.
The gap between discourses is the only space that true revolutionary action can occur  – the role of the intellectual is not to live in a founded reality – but rather to call out its artificial nature
ZIZEK – SR. RESEARCHER @ THE INSTIT. FOR SOC. STUD., UNIV. OF LJUBLJANA – 93
Slavoj, Tarrying With the Negative, pg. 1-2
The most sublime image that emerged ... render visible its "produced," artificial, contingent character. 

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On the Hampton/Mapes page.

1NC- Heidegger, DoE CP, Obama Good- EPA Regulations
2NC/1NR- All
2NR- Heidegger and Case

1NC- Production-Consumption K, Obama Good- Iran Strikes, XO CP
2NC/1NR- K and DA
2NR- K and case