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Interpretation—Topical Aff’s disburse public funds linked to energy production

First, financial incentives

Webb, 93 – lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa (Kernaghan, “Thumbs, Fingers, and Pushing on String: Legal Accountability in the Use of Federal Financial Incentives”, 31 Alta. L. Rev. 501 (1993) Hein Online)

And, for indicates the goal of the incentives

Merriam-Webster 2012

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for

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Capitalism is the root cause of the genocide of indigenous peoples

Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss Professor, Social Studies, Bard College, THE ENEMY OF NATURE: THE END OF CAPITALISM OR THE END OF THE WORLD, 2002, p. 174-175.

Loss of indigenous cultures threatens our extinction

Pam Solo, executive director, CULTURAL SURVIVAL QUARTERLY, Spring 1992, p. 1.

Energy production is capitalist

ICConline 11 on August 16, 2011, “Nuclear energy, capitalism and communism”

http://en.internationalism.org/wr/347/nuclear

Capitalism is unsustainable and extinction is inevitable--Movements solve now, but the plan derails them- The alternative is to reject the aff

Magdoff and Foster, 2010

(Fred and John Belamy, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism”, Monthly Review, Volume 61, Issue 10)

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A. Violation – increase requires making an already existing incentive greater, the aff creates a new incentive

Buckley et al, 06   - attorney (Jeremiah, Amicus Curiae Brief, Safeco Ins. Co. of America et al v. Charles Burr et al,

http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/06-84/06-84.mer.ami.mica.pdf)

2.  most predictable – federal alternative energy incentives are categorized by DSIRE –

DSIRE, 07 (Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy, “Frequently Asked Questions”, http://www.dsireusa.org/faq/faq.cfm?andEE=1andRE=1and#federal)

DSIRE tracks federal … they become available

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The 1AC is a typical leftist response to oppression that remains silent in the face of the on-going colonization of native North America. The plan serves as a mask for the state, but its existence is contingent upon a continuing legacy of colonization that guarantees exploitation – only by giving back the land and rethinking our relationship to this colonization as THE starting point to oppression can we solve the classism, racism, sexism, and militarism which make violence and extinction inevitable

Ward Churchill 1996 (Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder, BA and MA in

Communications from Sangamon State, From A Native Son pgs 520 – 530)

Our alternative is US off the planet

Only rejecting the state in every instance solves – it is the only hope we have for imagining a world without the US

Churchill, 04

Ward Churchill; August 24, 2004, Resistance to War, Occupation, and Empire, http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=6088,

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Interpretation: Topical Aff’s must reduce restrictions or increase incentives for energy production within the United States

1.    In means within – this is the core meaning

Encarta World English Dictionary, 7 (“In (1)”, 2007, http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861620513)

2.    United States includes all areas under U.S. jurisdiction

Rainey, 95 - US District Judge (John, DONALD RAY LOOPER, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF HIS FIRM'S CLIENTS, Plaintiff, v. WILLIAM C. MORGAN, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, AND ALL UNKNOWN INDIVIDUALS AND AGENCIES INVOLVED IN THE SEARCH OF A BRIEFCASE AT INTER-CONTINENTAL AIRPORT IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, Defendants.

1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10241, lexis)

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Obama is winning now -~-- recent polls.

Washington Post, 9-20-2012, Is the 2012 election tilting toward Democrats?, p. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/09/20/is-the-2012-election-tilting-toward-democrats/, accessed 9-21-2012

Perception of Obama as pro-renewables causes a Romney victory.

Steve LeVine, author of The Oil and the Glory and foreign correspondent for Foreign Policy, 6-13-2012, How dirty is Romney prepared to get to win election?, Foreign Policy, p. oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/12/how_dirty_is_romney_prepared_to_get_to_win_election, accessed 8-17-2012

Romney kills US-Russia relations -~-- overwhelms resilience.

The Economist, 9-1-2012, Romney Could Screw Up US Relations with Russia, Business Insider, p. www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romneys-foreign-policy-chops-come-into-light-2012-9, accessed 9-2-2012

U.S. Russian relations solve every impact

CFR Task Force 2006 [Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force for Russia, Chaired by John Edwards and Jack Kemp, “RUSSIA’S WRONG DIRECTION: WHAT THE UNITED STATES CAN AND SHOULD DO,” http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Russia_TaskForce.pdf]

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SSP is already being funded by NASA

Alan Boyle, science editor at MSNBC, 8/8/11, “Out-of-this-world ideas funded”, http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/08/7306644-out-of-this-world-ideas-funded, umn-rks

Spase Debris DA

SSP requires 100,000 launches to build

Al Globus, space settlement advocate, Spring 08, “On The Moon”, AdAstra: The Magazine of the National Space Society, http://www.nss.org/adastra/AdAstra-SBSP-2008.pdf, umn-rks

That causes space debris

John Kennewell, 2005, “Overview of Orbital Space Debris”, Australian Government: IPS Radio and Space Services, http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/4/2/1, umn-rks

Debris turns case

Cesar Jaramillo, managing editor at Project Ploughshares, et. all, August 2010, “Space Security 2010”, Space Security Index, http://www.spacesecurity.org/space.security.2010.reduced.pdf, umn-rks

Increased debris collapses every major economic sector

Ansdell 10 – PhD Candidate @ GWU Megan Ansdell, Graduate Student @ GWU, 2010, “Active Space Debris Removal,” Princeton Publications, http://www.princeton.edu/jpia/past-issues-1/2010/Space-Debris-Removal.pdf

Nuclear war and turns every impact

Harris and Burrows 9 Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf Increased Potential for Global Conflict

Case Ozon

SPS launches destroy the ozone

Rastogi 9 (Nina Shen Rastogi writes for Slate Magazine, 11-17-10 “Dirty Rockets” l/n JT)

Loss of the Ozone leaves us defenseless from UV rays which destroy ocean biodiversity, turns warming

EPA 11 (January 1/13/2011,  “Health and Environmental Effects of Ozone Layer Depletion”, http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/effects/index.html TC, EA)

Extinction

Davidson, ‘3 Founder of the Turtle House Foundation and award-winning Journalist (Fire in the Turtle House, p.47-51, EA]

Case Heg

ONE--heg is unsustainable

Christopher Layne, Professor, National Security, Texas AandM University, “This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and Pax Americana,” INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, 2012, Wiley, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00704.x/full, accessed 6-9-12.

TWO, turn—regionalization

a. Decline spurs it, more stable than dominance

Leon T. Hadar, Cato Institute, "Welcome to the Post-Unipolar World: Great for the U.S. and for the Rest," HUFFINGTON POST, 7--8--10, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11967

b. Solves terror, war, climate change

Krishnan Srinivasan, "International Conflict and Cooperation in the 21st Century," THE ROUND TABLE v. 98 n. 400, 2--09, pp. 37-47.

c. Extinction

Ronnie Cummins and Will Allen, Organic Consumers Association, "Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century," 2--14--10, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/14-6

THREE--no offense, states can handle their own security

Leon T. Hadar, research fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, "Saving U.S. Mideast Policy," NATIONAL INTEREST, 7--1--11, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13259, accessed 9-4-11.

FOUR, transition now is key

A. Vital to stability

Christopher Layne, Professor, National Security, Texas AandM University, “The Global Power Shift from West to East,” THE NATIONAL INTERST, May/June 2012, p. 31.

B. Key to multipolarity

Christopher Layne, Professor, National Security, Texas AandM University, THE PEACE OF ILLUSIONS: AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY FROM 1940 TO PRESENT, 2006, p. 158.

C. Prevents extended deterrence breakdowns and nuclear war

Christopher Layne, Professor, National Security, Texas AandM University, THE PEACE OF ILLUSIONS: AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY FROM 1940 TO PRESENT, 2006, p. 169.

FIVE, China

A. Holding on ensures a war--multiple scenarios

Christopher Layne, Professor, National Security, Texas AandM University, “The Global Power Shift from West to East,” THE NATIONAL INTERST, May/June 2012, p. 28.

B. Global nuclear

Johnson ’01 [Chalmers, “Time to Bring the Troops Home”, The Nation, May 14, LN]]

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SPS can’t solve warming – existing CO2

Mark Hempsell, senior lecturer in space technology at the University of Bristol, Acta Astronautica, Volume 59, Issue 7, October 2006, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576506001755

No timeframe – SSP takes at least 30 years

Jim Wolf, Reuters, 11/14/11, “Exclusive: Orbital solar power plants touted for energy needs”, http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-orbital-solar-power-plants-touted-energy-needs-130842225.html, umn-rks

Takes forever and we don’t have the tech yet

John C. Mankins, Editor, “Space Solar Power”, November 2011, International Academy of Astronautics, http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Studies/sg311_finalreport_solarpower.pdf, umn-rks

In space construction requires decades and human colonies

Peter A. Curreri, Ph.D. NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Michael K. Detweiler, Amadeus Consulting, December 2011, “A Contemporary Analysis of the O’Neill – Glaser Model for Space-based Solar Power and Habitat Construction”, NSS Space Settlement Journal, http://www.nss.org/settlement/journal/NSSJOURNAL_AnalysisOfONeill-GlaserModel_2011.pdf, umn-rks

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1.    Interpretation: Topical affs are an increase in financial incentives

Tax incentives for equipment are not financial incentives

Strange 2009 (JUSTICE RICK, ARTICLE: WEAVING A TANGLED WEB: THE INTERSECTION OF ENERGY POLICY AND BROADER GOVERNMENTAL POLICIES, 5 Tex. J. Oil Gas and Energy L. 1, Fall, l/n)

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The ACI is in place but has zero funding – Funding solves competitiveness in all areas

Baltimore and Zewail 8 (Baltimore is a professor of biology and president emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, was awarded the Nobel Prize in biology in 1975. Zewail is a professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1999, April17, 2008, David and Ahmed “We need a Science White House” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120839518424921607.html)

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Long-term coal use will increase

Zack’s Investment 12 (5/25/12, “Analyst Interviews: Railroad Industry Stock Outlook”) http://www.dailymarkets.com/stock/2012/05/25/analyst-interviews-railroad-industry-stock-outlook-2/

Wind industry growth kills coal.

Bowen 9/19

(Robert, "Republican Lawmakers Attack Wind Tax Credits Saying They Hurt Coal, The Examiner, 9/19/12, http://www.examiner.com/article/republican-lawmakers-attack-wind-tax-credits-saying-they-hurt-coal, Accessed 9/20/12, ASH)

Railroads are linked to coal

Denning 12

(Liam, staff writer, 3/16/12, “Railroads Struggle at the Coal Face” Wall Street Journal) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303863404577285382160837836.html

David Vernon of Bernstein Research.

Strong rails key to heg – weapons mobility and power projection.

Robert S. Korpanty, former U.S. Army Colonel, Nov-Dec 1999, Preserving Strategic Rail Mobility, http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/NovDec99/MS455.htm [ND]

Heg solves global nuke war.

Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N, Spring 1995 WASHINGTON QUARTERLING, “Losing the Moment?”, Lexis

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No clean tech bubble – bankruptcies and lack of federal support has slowed renewables but the market is stable

Smart Grid News 8/3/12 (“Cleantech investment opportunities to grow (just not where you might think)”, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Technologies_Smart_Water/Cleantech-investment-opportunities-to-grow-just-not-where-you-might-think-5017.html, )

The plan results in a bubble that inevitably collapses the industry, turning case

Huber ’10 (Kelsey, currently a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation, “Energy Subsidies Prove Unsustainable”, Aug 5, http://blog.heritage.org/2010/08/05/energy-subsidies-prove-unsustainable/,

This will eliminate 20 trillion dollars and also disrupt commodities markets—this causes a depression

Billmon ‘8 (Economics Blogger, “The Next Bubble—Where?” 2-21, http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/02/alternative-ene.html)

Nuclear war

Khalilzad ’11 Zalmay was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992, “ The Economy and National Security”, 2-8-11, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, 

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ONE, Tech solves

Indur Goklany, PhD., “Misled on Climate change: How the UN IPCC (and others) Exaggerate the Impacts of Global Warming,” POLICY STUDY n. 399, Reason Foundation, 12—11, 12.

TWO, Feedbacks check warming

-new sea temp/cloud creation studies prove a “thermostat control” which vents heat into space

-aerosols

-DMS

-Iodocompounds

-Carbonyl Sulfide

-biosols (key to cloudiness, that’s key to plant growth, that sequesters carbon)

-Stops N2O

-stops Methane

NIPCC, Nongovernment International Panel on Climate Change, CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED, Craig Idso, S. Fred Singer, Warren Anderson, J.Scott Armstrong, Dennis Avery, Franco Battaglia, Robert Carter, Piers Corbyn, Richard Courtney, Joseph d’Aleo, Don Easterbrook, Fred Goldberg, Vicent Gray, Williams Gray, Kesten Green, Kenneth Haapala, David Hagen, Richard Alan Keen, adhav Khandekar, William Kininmonth, Hans Labohm, Anthony Lupo, Howard Maccabee, M.Michael MOgil, Christopher Monckton, Lubos Motl, Stephen Murgatroyd, Nicola Scafetta, Harrison Schmitt, Tom Segalstad, George Taylor, Dick Thoenes, Anton Uriarte  Gerd Weber, 2009, p. 3.

THREE, Ecosystems resilient to higher CO2--history proves

NIPCC 11 (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. Surviving the unprecedented climate change of the IPCC. 8 March 2011. http://www.nipccreport.org/articles/2011/mar/8mar2011a5.html)

FOUR, CO2 fuels plant growth—emissions cuts threaten the survival of our civilization

Philip V. Brennan, journalist, “Inconvenient Facts About Climate Change,” NEWSMAX, 6—10—08, www.newsmax.com/brennan/climate_change/2008/06/10/103277.html, accessed 6-5-11.

FIVE, Emissions cuts risk a far worse ice age

David Deming, Associate Professor, Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma, “The Coming Ice Age,” AMERICAN THINKER, 5—13—09, www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/the_coming_ice_age.html, accessed 5-27-11.

SIX, CO2 stabilizes temps

Idsos ‘10 (Keith and Craig, esteemed scientists with PhDs and impeccable professional reputations, "They've Left Life Out of the Equations..." CO2 Science Magazine Number 42: 20 October, http://www.co2science.org/articles/V13/N42/EDIT.php, )

SEVEN, Consensus reflects politics, not science

Dr. William Happer, “The Truth About Greenhouse Gases,” George C. Marshall Institute, 5—23—11, www.marshall.org/article.php?id=953, accesse 6-28-11.

The management of most scientific societies has enthusiastically signed on to the global warming bandwagon. This is not surprising,

EIGHT, No ocean acidification, the best study disproves

Craig D. Idso, PhD, CO2, GLOBAL WARMING, AND CORAL REEFS: PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE, Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 1—12—09, p. 41.

Wind fails-often shut down and can’t meet peak demand.

Tupi 10

(Brad, Brad Tupi is an attorney with Tucker Arensberg, P.C., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His practice includes

environmental and general litigation. Mr. Tupi has handled several cases involving wind energy projects, “WIND ENERGY IS NOT THE ANSWER”, 2010, http://www.jvas.org/pdf_files/Wind_Energy_Not_Answer.pdf, Accessed 8/29/12, ASH)

Won’t solve energy output – their evidence overestimates

Bell 11

(Larry– professor at the University of Houston and author (“Wind Energy's Overblown Prospects”, 3/8, http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/03/08/wind-energys-overblown-prospects/, )

Local backlash insures failure.  Turns case.

Lomborg ’12

(– director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School (Bjørn, “Wind Falls”, March 21, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/project_syndicate/2012/03/lomborg_wind_power_is_cheap_only_compared_with_other_alternative_energies_.single.html, )

Turn: Wind leads to litigation battles that turn the case

Kusmin ’11

– J.D. Candidate (2011), Washington University School of Law; B.A. (2007), University of Kansas (Ryan, “NOTE: SUCKING THE AIR OUT OF WIND ENERGY: NUISANCE LITIGATION AND ITS EFFECT ON WIND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT”, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 707, )

Solar power fails – energy capcity, land useage, and high costs

Zycher, Pacific Research Institute Senior Fellow, 12 (Benjamin, Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics adjunct professor, associate in the Intelligence Community Associates Program of the Office of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, former senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, April 19, “Zycher testimony to joint House subcommittee hearing on subsidies for renewable energy,” http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/alternative-energy/zycher-testimony-to-joint-house-subcommittee-hearing-on-subsidies-for-renewable-energy/, d/a 8-1-12, ads)

Silicon shortages kill solvency

Elsa Wenzel, CNET News Staff Writer, 08 (Elsa, May 9, “Barriers to solar energy's blockbuster promise,” http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9939715-54.html, d/a 8-2-12, ads)