Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas GM | Judge:
Politics
Unscrewed polls prove Romney will win the election
Merkel 9/21
Jesse, Reporter and Pollster, Policy Mic, “Obama vs Romney Polls: When You Crunch the Numbers, Romney is Actually Doing Very Well”, http://www.policymic.com/articles/15145/obama-vs-romney-polls-when-you-crunch-the-numbers-romney-is-actually-doing-very-well
Two things typically happen after the major parties conventions come to an end. …..ask Al Gore if a scant few votes can make a difference. 

Solar popular in key swing states
Michigan Environmental Council ‘12
Press Release, “Poll: Midwestern, Michigan voters favor transition toward clean energy sources: Wind, solar are preferences”, http://www.environmentalcouncil.org/newsroom/pressRelease.php?x=82
A majority of voters in four Midwestern states including Michigan overwhelmingly support clean energy and energy efficiency, ….They don’t want a continuation of the status quo.”

Swing states determine the election
Coombes ‘12
Andrew, Staff Writer, Aljazeera, “US election outcome depends on swing states”, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/07/201272984739750251.html
The outcome of the US election is likely to be decided by a small number of states that are not …They are called swing states because they swing back and forth."
2 internal links – Romney will label china a currency manipulator and Obama will do it if he’s going to lose
Dawson and Mason, 12
Stella and Jeff, Columnists @ Reuters, 2/13, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/13/us-usa-campaign-obama-china-idUSTRE81C0DG20120213
Tough calculus for Obama in Chinese leader's election-year visit¶ ….White House spokesman Jay Carney said.¶ "But we're also going to be pretty candid, as we have been in the past, about where we have differences."
Currency manipulation causes rapid Chinese military modernization
Preeg 3
Ernest, Senior Fellow – Manufacturers Alliance, Chinese Currency Manipulation and the U.S. Trade Deficit, 9-25, http://www.uscc.gov/hearings/2003hearings/written_testimonies/03_09_25/preeg.htm)
3. Adverse impact on U.S. defense capability.–This impact follows principally from the previous point of a larger East Asian manufacturing engine for growth relative to the United States as a result of currency manipulation and its impact on the U.S. trade deficit. ….China has virtually unlimited funds available for cash purchases of advanced military capability.
Rapid modernization causes Asian war and Chinese nationalism
Krawitz 3
(Howard M., National Defense U., Modernizing China’s Military: A High-Stakes Gamble, Strategic Forum #204, December)
China is committed to modernizing almost every aspect of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). But military modernization may be more of a high-stakes gamble than Beijing realizes….if not outright anarchy, could threaten all of Asia.
Extinction
Ogura and Oh 97
(Toshimaru and Ingyu, Teachers – Economics, Monthly Review, April)
North Korea, South Korea, and Japan have achieved quasi- or virtual nuclear armament….. hot conflict among these countries would threaten to escalate into a global conflagration.

States
Text: The fifty states and relevant sub-national actors should
The states can do the plan
Haynes 5 (Rusty, Policy Analyst, N.C. Solar Center, N.C. State University, “Systematic Support for Renewable Energy in the United States and Beyond: A Selection of Policy Options and Recommendations” http://www.dsireusa.org/documents/PolicyPublications/Haynes_KIER_Keynote.pdf)
In the absence of strong, continuous federal support for renewable energy, ….industry recruitment incentives, rebates, grants, production incentives and low-interest loans.

Energy 1NC
Energy market expansion spreads globalization creating an even greater interconnected society in the drive for quicker production – views of resources are translated into reserves destroying landscapes
Simons ’10
(Petrus, Former Trader and Economist, PhD in Philosophy, Accelerate or Slow Down, Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, Vol. 18 (2010): 32-25)
Paul Virilio’s metaphor of a car which travels at high speed is very apt. ….. As the 21st century wears on, we will experience ever more painfully that speed kills.
Globalization makes extinction inevitable- social and environmental factors build positive feedbacks create a cascade of destruction - only massive social reorganization of society can produce sustainable change and save the planet
Ehrenfeld ‘5,
(David, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources @ Rutgers University, “The Environmental Limits to Globalization”, Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2 April 2005)
The known effects of globalization on the environment are numerous and highly significant….. whose fates have become so thoroughly entwined with ours within the global environment we share.

Alternative Text: the judge should vote negative to refuse the economics of speed
Prior refusal of the economics of speed is key- fractures its hegemony and opens space for a multitude of economic timescapes- only this re-framing can lead to effective capitalism
Hassan ‘5
(ARC Senior Research Fellow, Media and Communications @ Univ. of Melbourne) (Robert, Timescapes of the Network Society, Fast Capitalism 1.1, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism-/1_1/hassan.html)
Nonetheless, the truly revolutionary thing about the information technology revolution and the network society it is rapidly constructing may be something social science has not yet given much thought to—….users of ICTs can shape it into something(s) we haven't yet dreamed of.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas GM | Judge:
Solvency
Solar can’t solve, multiple other barriers—incentives only solve the production technology problem
Frezza 11—Fellow in Technology and Entrepreneurship @ Competitive Enterprise Institute
William, “Alternative Energy's Alternate Reality” [http://cei.org/op-eds-articles/alternative-energys-alternate-reality] November 22
Everyone acknowledges that electricity generated from wind and solar cannot be produced and delivered at prices that compete with coal or gas….. Yet this has not dissuaded the Department of Energy from smacking your money down. So, how is our Nobel Prize-winning high roller doing?

Warming
Even if solar managed to replace every coal plant in the world it would only reduce warming by .2 degrees
Rapier 12
Robert, “Scrapping all Coal Plants Would have no Significant Effect for 100 Years” [http://oilprice.com/The-Environment/Global-Warming/Scrapping-all-Coal-Plants-Would-have-no-Significant-Effect-for-100-Years.html] March 8
Who could have dreamed solving climate change would be so easy…..and replacing them with renewable energy would have an impact of 0.2 degrees Celsius 100 years from now.

K

Only a prior refusal of economics of speed can transition to other decisionmaking temporalities
Kurasawa ‘4
(Fuyuki, Assistant Prof. of Sociology @ York University, Cautionary Tales, Constellations Vol. 11, No. 4, Blackwell Synergy)
The variations on these themes are numerous. ….economic growth versus environmental protection, innovation versus safety, instant gratification versus future well-being.

Competing against globalization takes the development of technology out of our control and globally destroys the possibility of democracy
Bark et al. 06 (Peter, TFK Transport Research Institute, Kaj Elgstrange was a researcher in work physiology and ergonomics in Stockholm 1964-1968, then worked as an associate expert in ergonomics at the University of Cauca, Colombia, Johan Ernberg, MEEE, worked for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in various positions since 1968Winston Gereluk worked for the trade unions in Canada in research, education and public relations for 26 years. He is Academic Coordinator for Industrial Relations and Human Resources programs at Athabasca University, since 1999. He has represented the international trade union movement at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, Leif Hambraeus, MD PhD, was Professor of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University from 1971 to 2001 and since 2002 has been Professor Emeritus at the Dept of Biosciences and Nutrition, Unit for Preventive Nutrition, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Bo Johansson is a M.A. in social sciences, religion and anthropologyTord Kjellstrom is part-time Professor, National Institute of Public Health, Stockholm, Casten von Otter is a sociologist, and Professor at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life, Nils Petersson is Master of Science in Production Engineering (Civ ing) and Ergonomics, Sven-Erik Pettersson is an occupational safety and health engineer in agriculture and forestry, Jukka Takala is currently the Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work in Bilbao, SpainAdrienne Taylor was Regional Secretary for the Asia Pacific region for Public Services International Professor emeritus Ulf Ulfvarson, MSc, PhD, graduated in chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology and was researcher in various positions in the Swedish chemical industry. Associate Professor Stefan de Vylder is a Swedish economist who currently works as an independent researcher and consultant Professor Ronald Wennersten, MSc, PhD graduated in Chemical Engineering from Lund University, “OSH andDevelopment,” November 2006 pg. 29-30)  

The concept of time is closely related to velocity…. depends to create economic prosperity, is rapidly declining, and the rate of loss is increasing proportionate to gains in material well being.

Unequal development is war conducted by other means – the global benefits of technology are used to both sustain and oppress.
Der Derian, and Virilio, 97 (James, Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University,  and Paul, “Interview with Paul Virilio,” http://asrudiancenter.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/interview-with-paul-virilio/)

Will military technological superiority eventually efface these national and geographical differences? -…. as Marvin Minsky proposes. We are on the verge of the biomachine. Personally, I critique this, as the advent of the hyperstimulated man.

Waste Production- the need to produce quickly ensures environmental corner cutting- means unsustainable energy use and pollution creation
Land ‘6
(University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) (Ray, Networked Learning and the Politics of Speed: a Dromological Perspective, Networked Learning 2006)
Adam (1998:69….  In his view ‘globalisation relates to the dromospheric greenhouse effect of confinement within the limit-acceleration of telecommunications’ (117). 

Organizing the economy around innovation creates economics of speed- leads to rapid investment shifting and product development- that’s unsustainable and makes financial collapse inevitable
Goldman et al. ‘6
 (Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, Noah Kersey, Landscapes of the Social Relations of Production in a Networked Society, Fast Capitalism 2.1, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/SocialRelations.html)
The formula for success is knowledge, power, mobility, …. Speed may mean winning, but it can also lead to crashing. There are more losers than winners in casino capitalism. The landscape of risk is omnipresent. 

Turns case, Tech is the foundation of globalization
– technology creates an empire of speed that destroys the natural world.
Adams, 03 (Jason, Masters Political Science, Popular Defense in the Empire of Speed: Paul Virilio and the Phenomenology of the Political Body,” November 2003)

The overall effect of this 'national deconstruction' is that ….where once the polis inaugurated a political theater, with its agora and its forum, now there is only a cathode-ray screen, where the shadows and spectres of a community dance amid their processes of disappearance".112

We have innovation specific evidence- slowing down allows companies to better consider ethical impacts of their products and creates a dialogic relationship with consumers that creates time for democratic discussion of economic conditions- that’s the only possibility of maximizing the benefits of innovation and avoiding environmental damage and economic instability
Giaretta ‘5
(Elena, Associate Professor in Economics @ University of Verona, “Ethical Product Innovation: In Praise of Slowness”, TQM Magazine, Vol. 17 No. 2, 2005)

Leaving aside any possible ethical issues…, speeding up at times of need (for example in moments of crisis when a product defect emerges) and slowing down and resting when required. By introducing moments of rest within the organisations may also represent an alternative environment in which attention can be better focused and the creative imagination has the opportunity to nourish itself.

Tournament: Emporia | Round:  | Opponent: UCO BY | Judge:
Elections:
Romney good scenario

Two-state impact - Iran strikes

Tournament: KCKCC | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Obama Good @ KCKCC

China bashing impact
2/3 of our 2NR's there

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
KCKCC

Rd 1 vs UCO Solar - 2NR Deterrence K

Rd 3 vs Augustana Brownfields - T Restrictions

Rd 6 UNI Bataille - Framework

Emporia

Rd 1 Emporia nukes - T Restrictions

Rd 3 vs UCO Brownfields/wind - Politics Romney win

Rd 6 Framework

UCO

Rd 1 UMKC CW Liquid Thorium Accelerators - 2NR Econ of speed K

Tournament: KCKCC | Round: 1 | Opponent: UCO | Judge:
1NC
The aff is a performance of credibility for the other—it centers political decisionmaking on how we believe other people perceive us. This constructs an ideology of deterrence that mediates our actions with other nations—this non-falsifiable method requires leaders to take the most drastic actions and re-entrenches the elite monopoly on knowledge
Marullo 85 (Sam, Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University, “The Ideological Nature of Deterrence: Some Causes and Consequences” pg. 316-319 JSTOR) RF
An understanding of this paradox is obtained by analyzing the interests being served by this obfuscation, ….while statements more truly reflective of nuclear weapons employment policy are shared within the iron triangle and infrequently transmitted to the Soviet Union. Both, however, indicate a reliance on deterrence ideology. 

Wars are not isolated events or accidents. Instead, breakdowns are embedded in the very fabric of the international system itself and can only come out of the dangerous situation produced by deterrence. A “fog of war” ensures uncertainty in our knowledge of the other’s belief, The aff obscures our role in producing situations of danger and creating the conditions for violence.
Chaloupka ’92, (William, Chair of Political Science @ Colorado State, Knowing Nukes, pgs. 12-16)
Even our best signs of stability are easily inverted into signs of chaos and entropy. The only dependable stasis refuses to be static; interpretation de- mands a role, despite our wishes it would recede. This absurd outcome may be most evident when we consider those major destabilizers in the nuclear world that come under the classification of "accidents." …identified within nuclearist discourse itself, as the case of "accident" shows. This gives the era a hallucinatory quality, when the master-in-control reveals his own foibles. And, as Klein and Warner conclude, "Hallucinatory effects and effects of coincidence acquire, in this space, uncanny power to become the bases for fateful decisions."45

The aff’s expansion of space exploration and development with the symbolic economy of deterrence ensures genocide and destruction
Zupancic ‘00, (Alenka, Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan, March, p. 96-7)
“Another problem still remains, ….rather, an imperative which invites us to recognize as our own the `infinite' which can occur as something that is `essentially a by-product' of our actions.

Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to think beyond the logic of deterrence

The aff’s technical management of deterrence inevitably leads to paradox – only the alt’s refusal to engage the world within the framework of deterrence can ensure a sustainable strategy for achieving peace and security
Williams 92 (Michael C, Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, “Rethinking the Logic of Deterrence” p. 87-89 JSTOR) RF
Thinking about strategy in general, and about d…the thinking space necessary to confront more adequately these challenges. 

2NC
Their implicit acceptance of deterrence ideology fosters complacency through fear leaving the public unable to challenge government secrecy
Kurasawa ‘4, (Fuyuki, Assistant Prof. of Sociology @ York University, Cautionary Tales, Constellations Vol. 11, No. 4, Blackwell Synergy)
Independently of this contractualist justification, global civil society actors are putting forth a number of arguments countering temporal myopia on rational grounds. They make the case that no generation, and no part of the world, is immune from catastrophe. Complacency and parochialism are deeply flawed in that even if we earn a temporary reprieve, our children and grandchildren will likely not be so fortunate unless steps are taken today. Similarly, though it might be possible to minimize or contain the risks and harms of actions to faraway places over the short-term, parrying the eventual blowback or spillover effect is improbable….. The answer, I think, lies in cultivating the public capacity for critical judgment and deliberation, so that participants in global civil society subject all claims about potential catastrophes to examination, evaluation, and contestation. Two normative concepts are particularly well suited to grounding these tasks: the precautionary principle and global justice. 

Only our alternative opens up space for a preventative foresight which can cope with emerging global challenges – their single-issue focus leaves expertism in place
Kurasawa ‘4, (Fuyuki, Assistant Prof. of Sociology @ York University, Cautionary Tales, Constellations Vol. 11, No. 4, Blackwell Synergy)
In the first instance, preventive foresight is an intersubjective or dialogical process of address, recognition, and response between two parties in global civil society: the ‘warners,’ who anticipate and send out word of possible perils, and the audiences being warned, those who heed their interlocutors’ messages by demanding that governments and/or international organizations take measures to steer away from disaster. Secondly, the work of farsightedness derives its effectiveness and legitimacy ….  
all claims about potential catastrophes to examination, evaluation, and contestation. Two normative concepts are particularly well suited to grounding these tasks: the precautionary principle and global justice.