Tournament: UNLV | Round: 5 | Opponent: UNLV PS | Judge: Lemuel

PIC

The United States federal government ought to make available a permanent production tax credit for wind energy systems.

Use of legal code straight-jackets thought and prevents innovative solutions

Richard DELGADO AND Jean STEFANIC 2000 (Professor of Law – University of Colorado-Boulder AND Research Associate – University of Colorado Law School, Critical Race Theory: Second Edition, p. 26-7)

Traditional legal research tools, found in standard law libraries, rely on a series
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name something unless one’s interpretive community has begun talking and thing about it.

THAT IS A FORM OF SOCIAL CONTROL THAT SHIELDS US FOR RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR OWN CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATERIAL PAIN AND SUFFERING

DELGADO IN 1991 (RICHARD, COLORADO LAW PROFESSOR, 139 PA. L. REV. 933, APRIL)

Are we better off for engaging in normative talk, either as speakers or listeners
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to tune out or redefine what would otherwise make a claim on us.
 

Energy K

Business-as-usual politics and energy management has failed: an insular groupthink mentality has tricked energy managers into thinking they can accurately map the world so that benefits accrue evenly and successfully – we’ll isolate a few flaws in the aff

1) Supply-side energy – governments supplying energy to its people causes serial policy failure

Byrne and Toly 6—*John Byrne, Director Center for Energy and Environmental Policy %26 Public Policy at Delaware and Noah Toly, Research Associate Center for Energy and Environmental Policy ~Transforming Power eds. Byrne, Toly, %26 Glover p. 20-21~ ~Gender paraphrased~

The Technique of Modern Energy Governance While moderns usually declare strong preferences for democratic governance
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sacrificed for an energy transition that is regarded as scientifically and technologically unassailable.

2) Energy as techne – Wind’s focus on technical detail wrests from nature the resources necessary to sustain a middle-class lifestyle that turns their impacts and causes structural violence

Byrne and Toly 2k6 (john, Noah, "Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse" Transforming Power: Energy, Environment, And Society in Conflict. Eds John Byrne, Noah Toly, and Leigh Glover. Pgs 1-32. Transaction Publishers)
To date, the greatest success in ’real’ green energy development is the spread
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low-cost and easy-to-plug-in wind power.

The impact outweighs nuclear war and destroys value to life
Mumia Abu-Jamal 98 – activist, former Black Panther member, prisoner
("A QUIET AND DEADLY VIOLENCE," accessible at http://www.angelfire.com/az/catchphraze/mumiaswords.html-http://www.angelfire.com/az/catchphraze/mumiaswords.html, dml) 

It has often been observed that America is a truly violent nation, as shown
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away, so that their great and terrible violence passes away with them. 

3) Economic security establishes a self-fulfilling prophecy that fails to distribute income or prevent war

Lipschutz, Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz, 1995, On Security, pg 15-16
Consider, then, the consequences of the intersection of security policy and economics during
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concerned. But this does not prevent the state from trying to gain. 

4) Apocalypse – framing of climate change as extinction-level discourages action and creates anxious despair

Christina R. FOUST, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver, ET AL., with William O. Murphy, Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Instructor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver, and Chelsea Stow, Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Instructor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver, 2008 ~"Global Warming and Apocalyptic Rhetoric: A Critical Frame Analysis of US Popular and Elite Press Coverage from 1997-2007," Paper Submitted to the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association Convention in San Diego, November 20th, p. 22-23, Available Online at http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p260125_index.html, Accessed 03-18-2009~

Elements of an apocalyptic frame could be said to exist in most of the articles
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necessarily because they are taking collective and personal steps to resolve the issue.

5) Benign hegemony – applying the United States to the international order creates blowback and fails to encourage policy

Doran ’9 (Charles F., Andrew W. Mellon Prof. of International Relations, Director of the Global Theory and History Program, Director of the Center for Canadian Studies @ Johns Hopkins U., "Fooling Oneself: The Mythology of Hegemony" International Studies Review, Vol. 11.1) 

More than a catalogue of techniques other governments use to resist U.S.
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be self-financing, self-enforcing, and self-sufficient.

The impact is Extinction – The K turns and solves the root cause of their environment/resources impacts – the aff causes error replication

Ahmed 12 Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace %26 Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis
The twenty-first century heralds the unprecedented acceleration and convergence of multiple, interconnected
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turn radicalising the processes of social polarisation that can culminate in violent conflict.
Vote neg - methodological investigation is a prior question to the aff – strict policy focus creates a myth of objectivity that sustains a violent business-as-usual approach
Scrase and Ockwell 10 (J. Ivan - Sussex Energy Group, SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, David G - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, SPRU, Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, "The role of discourse and linguistic framing effects in sustaining high carbon energy policy—An accessible introduction," Energy Policy: Volume 38, Issue 5, May 2010, Pages 2225–2233)
The way in which energy policy is "framed" refers to the underlying assumptions
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Dryzek et al., 2003-http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421509009471—these are explored in detail further below).
 

Econ

Economic predictions impossible – small errors can wreck fore-casts

Kaul, 2011 – Writer for The Economic Times (Vivek, "The perils of prediction: Why do we believe in predictions even when they fail", http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-08-12/news/29880664_1_economists-predictions-oil-prices/2-http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-08-12/news/29880664_1_economists-predictions-oil-prices/2, accessed 7/19/12)BZ
The perils of prediction: Why do we believe in predictions even when they fail
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account a wide range of futures and pays off in any of them."

No econ impact

Robert Jervis 11, Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, December 2011, "Force in Our Times," Survival, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 403-425
Even if war is still seen as evil, the security community could be dissolved
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times bring about greater economic conflict, it will not make war thinkable.

Energy Leadership

Technocratic management makes extinction inevitable—no aff proposal can solve.

Crist 7 ~Eileen Crist, Associate Professor of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech University, 2007, "Beyond the Climate Crisis: A Critique of Climate Change Discourse," Telos, Volume 141, Winter, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Telos Press, p. 49-51~

If mainstream environmentalism is catching up with the solution promoted by Teller, and perhaps
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project of colonizing the Earth, of what critical theorists called world domination.
Domination comes at a huge cost for the human spirit, a cost that may
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what largely will enable more climate-change-driven damage to occur.
Human alienation from the biosphere further manifests in the recalcitrance of instrumental rationality, which
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civilization as presently configured economically and culturally, that needs to be changed.

No extinction – empirically denied

Carter 11–  Robert, PhD, Adjuct Research Fellow, James Cook University, Craig Idso, PhD, Chairman at the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Fred Singer, PhD, President of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Susan Crockford, evolutionary biologist with a specialty in skeletal taxonomy , paleozoology and vertebrate evolution, Joseph D’Aleo, 30 years of experience in professional meteorology, former college professor of Meteorology at Lyndon State College, Indur Goklany, independent scholar, author, and co-editor of the Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, Sherwood Idso, President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Research Physicist with the US Department of Agriculture, Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Geology, Botany, and Microbiology at Arizona State University, Bachelor of Physics, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy, all from the University of Minnesota, Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist from Environment Canada and is an expert reviewer for the IPCC 2007 Climate Change Panel, Anthony Lupo, Department Chair and Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Missouri, Willie Soon, astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Mitch Taylor (Canada) (March 8^th, "Surviving-C:\Users\Marc\Desktop\Surviving the Unpreceented Climate Change of the IPCC" http://www.nipccreport.org/articles/2011/mar/8mar2011a5.html-http://www.nipccreport.org/articles/2011/mar/8mar2011a5.html) Jacome 

On the other hand, they indicate that some biologists and climatologists have pointed out
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the fossil record indicates remarkable biotic resilience to wide amplitude fluctuations in climate.

Soft power fails

Rachman 9 ~Gideon Rachman is the Economist’s bureau chief in Brussels, June 1 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e608b556-4ee0-11de-8c10-00144feabdc0.html~~  

Barack Obama is a soft power president. But the world keeps asking him hard power questions.
From North Korea to Guantánamo Bay, from Iran to Afghanistan, Mr Obama is confronting a range of vexing issues that cannot be charmed out of existence.
The problem is epitomised by the US president’s trip to the Middle East this week. Its focal point will be a much-trailed speech in Cairo on Thursday June 4, in which he will directly address the Muslim world.
The Cairo speech is central to Mr Obama’s efforts to rebuild America’s global popularity and
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and mistreated each other – and he will appeal for a new beginning.
George W. Bush launched a military offensive in the Middle East. Mr Obama is launching a charm offensive.
There is plenty to be said for this approach. Mr Bush embroiled America in a bloody war in Iraq that strengthened Iran and acted as a recruiting sergeant for America’s enemies. Mr Obama’s alternative strategy is based on diplomacy, engagement and empathy.
Mr Bush had a shoe thrown at him in his last appearance in the Middle
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the Oval Office – and they will be just as dangerous as before.
In particular, there is chatter in official Washington that the Israelis may be gearing
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"What are we going to do? Shoot down their planes?"
A conflict between Israel and Iran would scatter the Obama administration’s carefully laid plans for Middle East peace to the winds. It would also make talk of improving American soft power around the world seem beside the point. The immediate task would be to prevent a wider regional war.
In the meantime, the US will press on with the effort to achieve peace
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, diplomacy and timing, Mr Obama is highly unlikely to do this.
Yet while his Arab audience may be disappointed by what he has to say about the Middle East peace process, Mr Obama is already facing an increasingly tense relationship with the new Israeli government. The administration has now clashed openly with the Israelis over the Netanyahu government’s tolerance of expanded settlements in occupied Palestinian land.
Mr Obama is also running up against the limits of soft power elsewhere. Closing
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indefinitely. The much-criticised military trials are likely to be revived.
In Afghanistan, Mr Obama is trying a mixture of hard and soft power. There will be a military surge – but also a "civilian surge", designed to build up civil society and governance in Afghanistan. Old hands in Washington are beginning to shake their heads and mutter about Vietnam.
Mr Obama’s preferred tools of diplomacy, engagement and charm do not seem to be of much use with Kim Jong-il of North Korea, either. The North Koreans have just tested a nuclear weapon – leaving the Obama administration scratching its head about what to do.
The president’s charisma and rhetorical skill are real diplomatic assets. If Mr Obama can deploy them to improve America’s image and influence around the world, that is all to the good. There is nothing wrong with trying to re-build American "soft power".
The danger is more subtle. It is that President Yes-we-can has raised exaggerated hopes about the pay-off from engagement and diplomacy. In the coming months it will become increasingly obvious that soft power also has its limits.

USFG is unethical – reject them

Wilderson 10 – dude straight up shot racists in South Africa
(Frank, Red, White %26 Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms pg 2-5, dml)

What are we to make of a world that responds to the most lucid enunciation
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antagonisms, such as class struggle, gender conflict. and immigrants’ rights.
One cannot but wonder why questions that go to the heart of the ethico-
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only render their speaker "crazy" but become themselves impossible to imagine.
Soon it will be forty years since radical politics, left-leaning scholarship,
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not by an unabashed revolutionary polemic, then certainly by a revolutionary zeitgeist.
Is it still possible for a dream of unfettered ethics, a dream of the
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and intellectual (political) discourse, that is, as unspoken grammars.  
 

Single reforms—soft power is doomed and their authors are clowns

Afrasiabi, 07 – PhD and author on Iran (Kaveh, Asia Times, "The illusion of American ’smart power’"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IK13Ak02.html)

Over the years, Nye has been anything but shy about claiming credit for his
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down, its core assumptions too nebulous to lend themselves to scientific parsimony.
Aside from contradictory notions and simplistic truisms, eg, "strengthen America" by
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different conclusion. Too much focus on power actually distracts from conscious policies.
To be sure, the authors of the "smart power" report are not
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the chains one way or another. But that is a separate story.
Tightly packed into the report is the incontrovertible fact that American standing in the world has suffered. Yet, any report focused on "how America wields power in the world" that omits a serious consideration of the multiple causes, such as the American quagmire in Iraq, cannot possibly be taken seriously.
The trouble is, however, that both authors of the report are on record
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contrary to Nye, it was the wrong war at the wrong time.
Formerly of the US State Department, Francis Fukuyama has agreed that procuring legitimacy has
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ramification of such neglects with respects to the threats facing the US today.
While side-stepping the Iraq issue with the lame excuse of "broader"
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fall outs of questionable policies, such as with respect to US unilateralism.
Regarding the latter, Robert Jervis has correctly pointed at the structural causes of American
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a term from the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Pierre-Felix Guattari.
In light of their benign, tolerant attitude toward the exercise of American power, even under the Bush administration, which is said to have used "elements of smart power", Nye and Armitage never really get to the bottom of their own frank admission that today many nations "resent US’s unbounded dominance".
Instead of drawing from this insight the necessity of a multi-polar world order
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if the US continues to allow its own power of attraction to atrophy".
Flawed, inadequate diagnosis of the problems behind America’s waning influence go hand-in-hand with equally inadequate prescriptions for a new US foreign policy, no matter how useful the insights on increasing foreign aid, closing down Guantanamo detention center, focusing on public diplomacy, that is, the usual panoply of "neo-liberal" recipes for action, with the sole exception of omitting the word "interdependence" previously highlighted in Nye’s own writings.
These recommendations are not far-reaching enough, often tackling the symptoms rather than the real causes of problems, overall denoting a mindset that reflects policy continuity (with the past and the present) when discontinuity should have the upper hands signaling a real foreign policy reorientation away from the disastrous policies of the Bush presidency.
Clearly, such a reorientation is impossible short of a paradigmatic shift away from the core assumptions of the American hegemonic model (which are only superficially questioned in this report). Devoid of such a radical shift, the report’s "smart power" has nested in it the elements of a vicious policy circle, bound to reintroduce failed US policies under new guises. 

aff was smrs, 1nc was buddhism, zeroism, and a production k - heg bad, pan, and cyberterror/prolif ks on case.  2nr was production k and case

1ac was a solar decentralization aff
1nc was states/federalism, phantasie natura k, and a pic out of "usfg"
2nr was dedev

1ac was wind ptc
1nc was legal speak pic, buddhism, and energy production k - wilderson on case
2nr was energy production

1ac was a story about Dionysus
1nc was stupidism, fantasy of the real, baudrillard da, and fairy tales cp
2nr was stupidism and fairy tales

1ac was speculation/bataille
1nc was stupidism, darkness counter-advocacy, passion of the real, and the story of the eye
2nr was darkness

1ac was critical ecological literacy, defended randd for biomimetic solar power
1nc was t - randd, monologism, buddhism, mystery da, baudrillard information da, phantasie natura, and pic out of prerequisites
2nr was t and condo good

aff was IFRs with warming and native uranium dumping advantages
1nc was buddhism, bataille, and the energy k
2nr was the energy k

1ac was fits with a bunch of impacts
1nc was bataille, zeroism (new poem this time), wilderson, and case defense/mini kritiks
2nr was bataille and wilderson