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Obama winning but external events can swing it.

Silver, NYT statistician, 9-24-12

(Nate, “The Statistical State of the Presidential Race”, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/the-statistical-state-of-the-presidential-race/, DOA: 9-27-12, ldg)

 To the extent there’s a useful...altered by essentially random factors.

Nuclear power sparks massive public backlash

CSI, 12

(Civil Society Institute, “SURVEY: AMERICANS NOT WARMING UP TO NUCLEAR POWER ONE YEAR AFTER FUKUSHIMA” 3-7-12, http:~/~/www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/media/030712release.cfm, accessed 9-24-12, mtf)

 One year after the disaster...public to bear the risks."

Romney decks US-Russia Relations

Felton, Columbia School of Journalism Toni Stable Fellow, 2012

(Emmanuel, “Mitt Romney Russia Quotes Signal Big Problems For Future US-Russian Relations”, March, http:~/~/www.policymic.com/articles/6202/com/articles/6202/mitt-romney-russia-quotes-signal-big-problems-for-future-us-russian-relations, DOA: 9-18-12, ldg)

 Flexibility is critical to any...undermined by an increasingly hostile Kremlin. 

Strong relations key to prevent US-Russia war AND solve the aff- the alternative empowers Russian ultra-nationalists

Cohen, NYU Russia studies professor, 11

(Stephen, Ph.D. in government and Russian studies from Columbia University, he has studied Russia's history and politics for fifty years as professor of politics and Russian studies at Princeton University (1968-98) and then Russian Studies and History at New York University since then, advised former President George H.W. Bush, The Nation contributing editor, "Obama's Russia 'Reset'," The Nation, 6-1-11, www.thenation.com/article/161063/obamas-russia-reset-another-lost-opportunity?page=full, accessed 3-23-12, mss)

 An enduring existential reality has...highly vulnerable to such attacks

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Renewable investment high now – Goldman Sachs investment proves

LaCapra, Reuters Correspondent, 12

(Lauren, “Goldman Sets $40 Billion Clean Energy Investment Plan”, http:~/~/www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/com/article/2012/05/23/goldman-green-idUSL1E8GMDPR20120523, 05/23/2012, accessed 08/16/2012, lmm)

Goldman executives said this... be quite large," Bernstein said.

US commitment to conventional energy dooms investment in renewable energy

Cornell University Global Labor Institute, 11

(“Pipe Dreams? Job gained, jobs lost by the construction of Keystone XL” September 2011, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_Reportpdf.pdf, accessed: 8-2-12 ara)

It is also important to...green jobs) will surely suffer.

Only renewables can solve warming – no alternatives

Fripp Research fellow, Environmental Change Institute and Exeter College, Oxford University, 11 (Matthias, Research fellow at the Environmental Change Institute and Exeter College, Oxford, PhD from Energy and Resource Program @ UC Berkeley,“Renewables”, 11-8-11, http://www.economist.com/debate/files/view/Renewbles_debate_artifact0.pdf, accessed 7-31-12, ara)

We must reduce global greenhouse ...2030 at current growth rates

Warming causes extinction – ocean patterns

Hoegh-Guldberg and Bruno, GCI director and marine science professor at UNC, 10

(cited by SciFi News, “Could unbridled climate changes lead to human extinction?” 6-20-10, http://www.sify.com/news/could-unbridled-climate-changes-lead-to-human-extinction-news-international-kgtrOhdaahc.html, accessed 8-2-12, gender modified, ara)

Scientists have sounded alarm bells ...in nearly a million years'

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The United States Federal Government should initiate a binding substantive environmental impact statement, including but not limited to a health impact assessment regarding the consequences of Insert Plan Mandates and adopt such measure only if it can be made consistent with the results of the statement. We’ll clarify

CP solves-public participation is key and equity norms make the plan more sustainable

Bratspies, CUNY law professor, 2010

(Rebecca, “The Intersection Of International Human Rights And Domestic Environmental Regulation”, 8-20, http:~/~/papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1662576url:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1662576, DOA: 8-18-12, ldg) 

There are many lessons to draw ...Chukchi Sea leases less likely.

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The United States Navy should extend its Fleet Response Plan to a 42-month/two-deployment cycle

CP allows flexible fleet rotation that solves the aff – this is the conclusion of their 1AC card

Eaglen, Heritage Foundation National Security Senior Policy Analyst, 08

(Mackenzie,” Aircraft Carriers Are Crucial,” http:~/~/www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2008/08/org/research/commentary/2008/08/aircraft-carriers-are-crucial, accessed 9-27-12, ads)

To maintain 11 carriers, the Navy... requirements of the "6+1 fleet" plan

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Counter interpretation - Increase is to make greater

Dictionary.com Unabridged

Based on the Random House Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2010., "Increase," http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/increase, accessed 8-1-10, mss

in·crease   v. in-krees; n. in-krees...add to: to increase taxes.

Energy production and energy use are distinct economic sectors

Boer, University of Sydney Environmental Law Professor, 95

(Ben, Corrs Chambers Westgarth Professor of Environmental Law; Director, Australian Centre for Environmental Law, University of Sydney, "ARTICLE: INSTITUTIONALISING ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLES OF NATIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN TRANSLATING GRAND STRATEGY INTO ACTION," 31 Willamette L. Rev. 307, Spring 1995, lexis, accessed 8-2-12, mtf)

Like many other countries, Australia... the end of 1991. n184  *344

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Aff’s logic of incentives presumes universal rationality and drives for profit-re-entrenches neoliberalism.

Reno, Michigan anthropology PhD, 2011

(Joshua, “Motivated Markets: Instruments and Ideologies of Clean Energy in the United Kingdom”, Cultural Anthropology Volume 26, Issue 3, pages 389–413, August 2011, Wiley, ldg)

To grapple with these ongoing... new and potentially alienating forms

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, Rutgers biology professor, 2005

(David, “The Environmental Limits to Globalization”, Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2, ebsco, ldg)

Ehrenfeld ‘5,

The overall environmental changes brought ..exacerbated by globalization (Ehrenfeld 2003b). 

Alt is to embrace commons and reject enclosures - Discourse of the commons solves-creates space to challenge neoliberalism

De Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2003

(Massimo, “Reflections on alternatives, commons and communities”, Winter, http:~/~/www.commoner.org.uk/pdf, DOA: 7-2-12, ldg)

This movement has posed the ...communities through the social fields

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Federalism is at a tipping point – states have drawn the line over federal intervention in energy; CP is key to create precedent of state action

Stein, Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Law, 12

(Amy L, “The Tipping Point Of Federalism,” 7-3-12, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2098176, Connecticut Law Review, accessed 8-17-12, ara)

And for generation, states continue ...generation used by the states.

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Credit downgrades now but banks are able to cope

Eavis, writer for Deal Book NY Times, 12

(Peter, June 22, 2012, “A Sober New Reality in Credit Downgrades for Banks”, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/a-sober-new-reality-in-credit-downgrades-for-banks/, 8/15/12, atl)

When a consumer’s credit score... one level higher than JPMorgan

Nuclear power construction causes business credit downgrade

Mez, Freie Universität, Berlin, Professor of Political Science and Social Sciences, 12

(Lutz, May 7, 2012, “Nuclear energy–Any solution for sustainability and climate protection?” http:~/~/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/com/science/article/pii/S0301421512003527, 6/29/12, atl)

In contrast to other energy ...Western and democratic industrialized countries.

Collapses the economy and tanks solvency

Severance, Grand Junction CPA in natural gas markets, 09

(Craig A., former Assistant to the Chairman and to Commerce Counsel, Iowa State Commerce Commission, "Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power”, http://www.nirs.org/neconomics/nuclearcosts2009.pdf, 7/5/12, atl)

Levying additional charges, with nothing ...of the direct charges levied.49