Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
*Insert Uniqueness card*

Plan drops oil prices – displaces massive amounts of oil  
Oceana.org, 12
(February 2, “Could Offshore Wind Displace Oil?,” http://oceana.org/en/our-work/climate-energy/clean-energy/learn-act/could-offshore-wind-displace-oil, accessed 9-16-12, ads)

Oil price decrease collapses the Russian economy
Harding, The Guardian Lead Correspondent, 08
(Luke, November 20, “Russia close to economic collapse as oil price falls, experts predict,” http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/oil-russia-economy-putin-medvedev, accessed 8-31-12, ads)

Russian economic decline goes nuclear
Filger, founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com, 2009
(Sheldon, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction”, 5-10, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html, ldg)

US-Russia war causes extinction- climate would fail, agriculture would stop, and eco-systems would collapse
Hefland and Pastore, former Physicians for Social Responsibility presidents, 4-2-2009
Ira, MD, and John, MD, "Take all nukes off ready-alert status," Providence Journal-Bulletin, l/n, mss

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
A) Uniqueness—The era of cheap energy is over
Neste Oil, 11
(“Harri Turpeinen: The era of cheap energy is over,” accessed 10-14-12, http://www.nesteoil.com/default.asp?path=1,41,540,17988,7906,11112,11113) 

B) Link— Offshore wind energy lowers overall energy prices
Bryant, Lawyer Specializing in Environmental Law, 09
(Margaret, “WIND ENERGY IN TEXAS: AN ARGUMENT FOR DEVELOPING OFFSHORE WIND FARMS,” Environmental and Energy Law and Policy Journal, accessed 8-19-12, p. lexis) 

C) Impacts—
First—New sources of cheap energy uniquely increase consumption—this causes massive environmental damage
Kerschner, Doctoral Student in Ecological Economics @ ICTA, 10
(Christian, “Economic de-growth vs. Steady-state economy,” Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 18, Issue 6, April 2010, accessed 10-30-12, p. Science Direct) 

Second—Increased consumption causes biosphere collapse and extinction
Barry, Univ. of Wisconsin Doctorate in Land Resources, 1-5-10
(Glen, “EARTH MEANDERS: Resisting Global Ecological Change,” accessed 10-30-12, http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/2010/01/earth_meanders_resisting_globa.asp) 

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Rare earth metals key to solar production – plan skyrockets demand
Trigaux, USFSP graduate student, 12
(David, Graduate Student at USF St. Petersburg, Field Coordinator at Nina Hayden For Congress, former Research Assistant at University of South Florida St. Petersburg, former Research Intern at the Publishing Division at Library of Congress, B.A. in Political Science, History, Spanish, Environmental Science, former President of USF Debate at University of South Florida, "“The U.S., China and Rare Earth Metals” : The Future Of Green Technology, Military Tech, and a Potential Achilles Heel to American Hegemony.," University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, 5-2-12, Honors Thesis, Thesis Director: Thomas Smith, Ph. D. Professor of Political Theory, College of Arts and Sciences, http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/handle/10806/4632, accessed 7-20-12, mtf)

Solar causes rare earth metal dependency to China – that tanks heg and leads to international war and chaos
Trigaux, USFSP graduate student, 12
(David, Graduate Student at USF St. Petersburg, Field Coordinator at Nina Hayden For Congress, former Research Assistant at University of South Florida St. Petersburg, former Research Intern at the Publishing Division at Library of Congress, B.A. in Political Science, History, Spanish, Environmental Science, former President of USF Debate at University of South Florida, "“The U.S., China and Rare Earth Metals” : The Future Of Green Technology, Military Tech, and a Potential Achilles Heel to American Hegemony.," University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, 5-2-12, Honors Thesis, Thesis Director: Thomas Smith, Ph. D. Professor of Political Theory, College of Arts and Sciences, http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/handle/10806/4632, accessed 7-20-12, mtf)

Dependence reduces heg – tanks relations and hinders trade
Parthemore, CNAS fellow, 11
(Christine, Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, "Elements of Security: Mitigating the Risks of U.S. Dependence on Critical Minerals," Center for a New American Security, June 2011, http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Minerals_Parthemore_1.pdf, accessed 7-20-12, mtf)

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They’ll compromise-election results increased flexibility
Curtis, OnlineColumnist.com editor, 11-8
(John M., Ph.D. is editor of OnlineColumnist.com, the Web's leading source of nonpartisan commentary analyzing spin in national and global news, he’s a consultant, seminar trainer and news analyst on national radio shows, Dr. Curtis is considered the nation's leading authority on spin in the news, his politically neutral commentaries appear in U.S. and foreign newspapers, "Obama and GOP ready to deal with "fiscal cliff"," 11-8-12, http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-and-gop-ready-to-deal-with-fiscal-cliff, accessed 11-9-12, mtf)

Plan drains capital and causes an immediate fight
Szondy, former university lecturer in history and archeology, 12
(David, award winning freelance writer for Gizmag, a science magazine, February 16, 2012, “Feature: Small modular nuclear reactors - the future of energy?” http://www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/, 11-1-12, ara,) language modified

Fiscal cliff cuts disease research – direct funding decrease, uncertainty, and cut training
Liberto, CNN Money, 12
(Jennifer, “How Washington politics threatens my job,” 10-26-12, http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/26/news/economy/fiscal-cliff-science/index.html, accessed 11-7-12, ara)

Extinction
Keating, Foreign Policy web editor, 9
(Joshua, “The End of the World”, 11-13-09, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full, ldg)

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Notions if energy are informed by neoliberalism-assumes energy is an external input necessary for human growth—this creates omnipresent scarcity and pre-determines outcomes by not questions the ends to which energy is used.
Hildyard, Corner House director, 2012
(Nicholas, Corner House has aimed to support democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice, former co-editor of the Ecologist, “Energy Security For What?  For Whom?”, February, http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/sites/thecornerhouse.org.uk/files/Energy%20Security%20For%20Whom%20For%20What.pdf, DOA: 7-5-12, ldg)

Economic rationality prioritizes short term profit over the well-being of environment and human life-makes extinction inevitable
Nhanenge, South Africa development studies masters, 2007
(Jytte, “Ecofeminsm: Towards Integrating The Concerns Of Women, Poor People And Nature Into Development”, February, http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1, DOA: 7-4-12, ldg)

Rejecting market competition is an act of economic imagination that can create real alternatives within the existing economy
White et al., Sheffield Hallam University economic geography senior lecturer, 2012
(Richard, Escaping Capitalist Hegemony: Rereading Western Economies in The Accumulation of Freedom, pg 131-2, ldg)

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
A) Interpretation—Financial incentives are transfers of economic resources or act of market expansion that affects the price of energy – distinct from mandates
Gielecki et al., EIA project coordinator, 1
(Mark Gielecki, Fred Mayes is Renewable Information Team leader, and Lawrence Prete, all from the Energy Information Administration, "Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy," U.S. Department of Energy, Renewable Energy 2000: Issues and Trends, February 2001, http://www.eia.gov/ftproot/renewables/06282000.pdf, accessed 8-1-12, mtf)

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Renewables competitive with fossil fuels – investment
Bapna, President, WRI Insights, 12
(Manish, Acting President of World Resource Institute Insights, an environmental think tank, former executive director of the nonprofit Bank Information Center, previously senior economist and task team leader at the World Bank, graduate degrees in business and international development from Harvard, “2012: A Breakthrough For Renewable Energy?” 2-9-12, http://insights.wri.org/news/2012/02/2012-breakthrough-renewable-energy, accessed 7-31-12, ara)

Renewables can compete – high fossil fuel prices key
Morales and Simmons, Bloomberg, 12
(Alex and Jacqueline, “Renewables From Vestas To Suntech Plan Profit Without Subsidy,” 1-26-12, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-26/renewables-from-vestas-to-suntech-plan-profits-without-subsidy.html, accessed 7-31-12, ara)

U.S leadership in clean energy creates jobs and solves economic leadership in other sectors
Gerwin, et al., Senior Fellow, Third Way, 10
(Ed, Senior Fellow for Trade and Global Economic Policy at Third Way, Anne Kim, the Director of Third Way Economic Program, Josh Freed, Director of the Clean Energy initiative “Our Share of Clean Energy Trade”, February 2010, http://content.thirdway.org/publications/264/Third_Way_Policy_Memo_-_Getting_Our_Share_of_Clean_Energy_Trade.pdf, accessed 07-31-2012,vc)

Economic growth is key to prevent multipolarity which causes great power wars.
Khalilzad, former director of policy planning at the Defense Department, 2011
(Zalmay, “The Economy and National Security”, 2-8, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad?page=3, ldg)

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
State taxes solve revenue and state budgets
Shreve, Economist of Virginia Organizing Project’s Tax Reform Committee, 10
(David, “Solutions that Work for Main Street: Progressive Guidelines for Closing Recessionary State Budget Gaps”, 04-10, da: 10-01-12, http://www.faireconomy.org/files/TFOC_2010_Budget_Guidelines.pdf, lmm)

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Hagel will be confirmed but it’ll be close—Obama’s PC is vital, high, and will be successful—key to avoid multiple scenarios for global conflict
Kurlander, Huffington post writer, 1/10
(Steven, blogs at Kurlys Kommentary and also writes for Florida Voices and the Huffington Post, January 10, 2013, “Steven Kurlander: Obama will push to advance his vision of America”, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-01-10/news/fl-skcol-oped0110-20130110_1_hagel-president-obama-steven-kurlander, 1/16/13, atl)

Tournament: University of Georgia | Round: 5 | Opponent: App State | Judge: 

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=1662576, DOA: 8-18-12, ldg)

Tournament: University of Georgia | Round: 3 | Opponent: Houston | Judge:
Energy production includes energy conversion, storage, and power generation
NASA, no date
(NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program, "44 Energy Production and Conversion," http://www.sti.nasa.gov/sscg/44.html, accessed 7-29-12, mtf)

Tournament: University of Georgia | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Clarion | Judge:
A) Republicans always attach riders to energy legislation and the must pass and fiated nature of the plan ensures these riders become law—ensures destruction of the Clean Water Act
Natural Resources Defense Council, 7-12-12
(“2012 Anti-Environmental Riders,” accessed 1-31-13, http://www.nrdc.org/legislation/2012-riders.asp)

B) Strong Clean Water Act is vital to robust Great Lakes economies
National Wildlife Federation, 10-18-12
(“Clean Water Act’s Essential Role in Restoring the Great Lakes,” accessed 2-1-13, http://ecowatch.org/2012/clean-water-act-turns-40/)

Tournament: University of Georgia | Round: 1 | Opponent: Navy | Judge:
Obama is playing the perfect hand on immigration now but contentious action ensures polarization
Weber, senior editor at TheWeek.com, 1/29
(Peter, graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine, he speaks Spanish and Italian, January 29, 2013, “Should Obama stay out of the immigration fight?” http://theweek.com/article/index/239363/should-obama-stay-out-of-the-immigration-fight, 2/1/13, atl)

Immigration reform key to solving the nursing shortage
Hanlon Law Group, 2012
(“Nursing Shortage Should Be Top Priority in Health Care and Immigration Reform,” www.visaandgreencard.com/CM/Articles/Nursing-Shortage.asp, d/a 1-3-13, ads) 

Nursing shortage impedes efforts to prepare for bioterror attacks
Oncology Times, 07
(“Reps. Capps, LaTourette Call for Increased Funding of Nurse Education Programs,” http://journals.lww.com/oncology-times/Fulltext/2007/07100/Eye_on_Washington.4.aspx, d/a 1-3-13, ads) 

Bioweapon use spreads globally and causes extinction – outweighs nuclear weapons
Steinbruner, Brookings Senior Fellow, 1997
(John, Brookings chair in international security and vice chair of the committee on international security and arms control of the National Academy of Sciences, “Biological weapons: a plague upon all houses,” d/a 1-3-13, ads) 

Tournament: Monmouth | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Russia ahead of US in nuclear race now
Miranovsky, Pravada writer, 12
(Anatoly, Russian newswire, “Russia delivers uranium to US nuclear power plants,” 7-17-12, da 1-5-13, http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/17-07-2012/121660-russia_usa_nuclear-0/, mee)

Key to Russian leadership and economy
AEP, 12
(Joint Stock Company Atomic Energy Power Corporation, “Russian Nuclear Industry Today,” 2012, da 1-4-13, http://atomenergoprom.ru/en/nuclear/rus/, mee)

Russian econ decline causes nuclear war
Filger, economic analyst, 9
(Sheldon, Huffington Post financial commentator, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction,” 5-10-09, da 1-4-13, http://www.globaleconomiccrisis.com/blog/archives/356, mee)