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Arctic Leadership

Obama is expanding Arctic access now but the current plan is too restrictive

Reuters 12 June 28, 2012, “U.S. unveils final drilling plan, limits Arctic sales”, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-usa-drilling-offshore-idUSBRE85R1MJ20120628?feedType=RSSandfeedName=everythingandvirtualBrandChannel=11563

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. oil companies will be allowed to

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,” said Doc Hastings, Republican chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee.

Arctic on the brink of great-power conflict – diplomacy is no longer an option

Tassinari 9/7 Fabrizio Tassinari is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Head of Foreign Policy and EU Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies, September 7, 2012, “Avoiding a Scramble for the High North”, http://blog.gmfus.org/2012/09/07/avoiding-a-scramble-for-the-high-north/

The geopolitics of the Arctic are stuck in a paradox: The more regional players

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not hard to conjure up the prospect of an Arctic race building up.

Arctic conflict goes nuclear

Wallace and Staples 10 Michael Wallace is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia; Steven Staples is President of the Rideau Institute in Ottawa, March 2010, “Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons A Task Long Overdue”, http://www.arcticsecurity.org/docs/arctic-nuclear-report-web.pdf

The fact is, the Arctic is becoming a zone of increased military competition.

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-political/economic significance of the Arctic because of climate change.” 62

Offshore drilling is key to US leadership in the Arctic

Cohen and Altman 11 Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Anton Altman is a research volunteer at The Heritage Foundation, August 16, 2011, “Russia’s Arctic Claims: Neither LOST nor Forgotten”, http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/16/russias-arctic-claims-neither-lost-nor-forgotten/

Moscow has an unquestionable head start on the rest of the world, and it

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.S. ability to access polar waters and the Arctic Ocean bed.

US leadership is necessary to prevent conflict

Borgerson 10 SCOTT G. BORGERSON is International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, April 2008, “Arctic Meltdown: The Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming”, http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/20032581.pdf?acceptTC=true

Washington cannot afford to stand idly by. The Arctic region is not currently governed

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, the region could erupt in an armed mad dash for its resources.

Oil Dependence

Arctic drilling offsets Middle East oil imports

Upton 12 Fred Upton is Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, August 31, 2012, “Movement Toward Drilling in Arctic Long Overdue; Nearly Six Years of Delays Underscore Need for Reform”, http://energycommerce.house.gov/press-release/movement-toward-drilling-arctic-long-overdue-nearly-six-years-delays-underscore-need

“Interior’s announcement is a positive step, but it should not take six years

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,000 jobs could be created and sustained with offshore production in Alaska.

Domestic oil production causes shift from Middle East

Reveron 12 Derek S. Reveron, an Atlantic Council contributing editor, is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College, February 17, 2012, “The Future of Energy-Dominated Foreign Policy”, http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/future-energy-dominated-foreign-policy

Because of oil, the US pays greater attention to Middle East politics than it

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that import dependence in what is today's largest energy importer will decline substantially."

US presence in the Middle East fosters Anti-Americanism and causes massive instability

Kahn 11 Jeremy Kahn is writer for the Boston Globe – citing Eugene Gholz is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at UT Austin and Daryl Press is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, February 13, 2011, “Crude reality”, http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/02/13/crude_reality/?page=2

In their Security Studies paper, Gholz and Press argue that there are indeed a

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make such unrest more likely, if soldiers became flashpoints for revolutionary anger.

That escalates quickly

Russell 9 - James A. Russell, senior lecturer in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Nava Postgraduate School, Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prosepects for Nuclear War and Escalation in the Middle East, in collaboration with the Atomic Energy Commission, http://www.nps.edu/academics/sigs/ccc/people/biolinks/russell/PP26_Russell_2009.pdf

Strategic stability in the region is thus undermined by various factors: (1)

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the peoples of the region, with substantial risk for the entire world.

Extinction

Stirling 11—holds several Scottish titles; Earl of Stirling, Viscount of Canada, Viscount of Stirling, Lord Alexander of Tulibody. Holds many honorary Canadian titles Lord Lieutenant and Governor of Canada, Lord High Admiral of Nova Scotia, Lord Lieutenant of Nova Scotia, Lt.-Gen. of Nova Scotis (Lord Stirling, General Middle East War Nears - Syrian events more dangerous than even nuclear nightmare in Japan, http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2011/03/general-middle-east-war-nears-syrian.html)

As insanely dangerous as the mega-nuclear disaster in Japan is, events in

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, fought with 21st Century weaponry will be anything but the Biblical Armageddon.

Attempting to maintain dominance in the Middle East diverts defense resources from the Pacific, undermining power projection and giving free reign to Chinese regional expansionism – only reducing oil dependence solves

Daniel Krcmaric 12, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Duke University, June 20, 2012, “Looking Ahead: America’s Role in the Middle East,” Global Trends 2030, online: http://gt2030.com/2012/06/20/looking-ahead-americas-role-in-the-middle-east/

As the United States winds down its involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and implements a “strategic pivot” from the Middle East to Asia, it seems appropriate to take stock of America’s future role in the Middle East.

The logic underlying the strategic pivot is that the dominant foreign policy issues of the

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it is not clear that pivoting away from the Middle East is feasible.

Why not? Oil. Simply put, the health of the American economy depends

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the U.S. and China will occur in the Middle East.

Given this, is the U.S. doomed to remain bogged down in

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the extent that the United States reduces its dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

The US needs to shift now – it’s the only way to boost credibility and prevent conflict in Asia – negotiations don’t solve our impacts

Auslin 12 Michael Auslin, AEI's director of Japan Studies, was an associate professor of history and senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University prior to joining AEI, July 30, 2012, “Beijing crosses a line”, http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/asia/beijing-crosses-a-line/

By unilaterally creating a prefectural-level city government and installing a military garrison on

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alone risks surrendering our influence in Asia and possibly making conflict more likely.

Status quo makes war with China inevitable

Blumenthal 12 Dan Blumenthal is a current commissioner and former vice chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, July 31, 2012, “THE POWER PROJECTION BALANCE IN ASIA”, http://www.aei.org/papers/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/asia/the-power-projection-balance-in-asia/

Given China’s current military modernization trajectory and its stated desire to “contest” the

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major regional war for which the U.S. military must prepare.

Only an effective Asia pivot maintains deterrence

Blumenthal 12 Dan Blumenthal is a resident fellow in Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, May 2, 2012, “A strong military keeps the threat of war small”, http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/asia/a-strong-military-keeps-the-threat-of-war-small/

We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a

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the ships and aircraft our military needs, Americans may buy themselves peace.

Extinction

Walton 7 – C. Dale Walton, Lecturer in International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, 2007, Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the 21st Century, p. 49

Obviously, it is of vital importance to the United States that the PRC does

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a healthy multipolar system that is not marked by close great power alliances.

Russia

Companies shut out of US Arctic will go to Russia – plan forces a direct trade-off

Kramer and Krauss 11 Andrew E Kramer and Clifford Krauss, writers for the New York Times, February 16, 2011, “Russia shrugs off worries in pursuing Arctic oil”, http://article.wn.com/view/2011/02/16/Russia_shrugs_off_worries_in_pursuing_Arctic_oil/

The Arctic Ocean is a fobidding place for oil drillers. But that is not

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other foreign oil company representatives were lining up outside his office these days.

Foreign investment is pushing Russia to attempt to replace their declining reserves by drilling in the Arctic

Hulbert 12 Matthew Hulbert is an analyst at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations, July 19, 2012, “Arctic oil: Putin's last chance”, http://www.europeanenergyreview.eu/site/pagina.php?id=3813

President Putin is back, but this time he faces daunting challenges on the energy

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international oil companies (IOCs) to help it 'crack' the initial ice.

High revenues from oil exports prevent Russian economic diversification – this makes Dutch Disease and economic collapse inevitable

Konończuk 12 Wojciech Konończuk is an expert in the Russian Department of the Centre for Eastern Studies, April 2012, “RUSSIA'S BEST ALLY THE SITUATION OF THE RUSSIAN OIL SECTOR AND FORECASTS FOR ITS FUTURE”, http://www.osw.waw.pl/sites/default/files/PRACE_39_en.pdf

However, the growing oil-generated revenues are having a number of negative consequences

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in 2011 (the budget surplus reached 0.8% of GDP).

Oil dependence is the Achilles’ heel of Russia economy – leads to total collapse

Blagov 12 Sergei Blagov is a Senior Consultant at KWR International, a Moscow-based specialist in CIS political affairs, and a write for the Jamestown Foundation, “Russia Seeks Lesser Dependence on Oil Prices”, June 26, 2012, http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1andtx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=39540

Russia pledged to limit its over-reliance on crude oil prices. However,

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petrodollars, could potentially lead to a demise of the government’s energy strategy.

Russian economic instability causes political instability and nuclear war

Filger 9 – Sheldon Filger, columnist and founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com, May 10, 2009, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction,” online: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html

In Russia, historically, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree

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the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.

Economic diversification solves aggression and nationalism

Cohen and Ericson, 2009. Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, and Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Economics at the East Carolina University and former Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, 9
(Ariel and Richard, November 2, 2009, The Heritage Foundation, “Russia's Economic Crisis and U.S.-Russia Relations: Troubled Times Ahead,” Backgrounder #2333, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/11/russias-economic-crisis-and-us-russia-relations-troubled-times-ahead)

An economic model based on natural resources would tend to perpetuate authoritarianism, nationalism,

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is stunted by state corruption and the lack of the rule of law.

Russian aggression causes nuclear war-~--it’s the only great-power war that’s likely because other relationships don’t involve ideological rivalry

Blank 9 – Dr. Stephen Blank , Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, March 2009, “Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?,” online: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub908.pdf

Proliferators or nuclear states like China and Russia can then deter regional or intercontinental attacks

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perhaps make wars of aggression on their neighbors or their own people.172

Solvency

Arctic drilling inevitable – US needs to take the lead

O’Keefe 12 William O'Keefe is CEO at the George C. Marshall Institute, a think tank that promotes better use of science in public policy, July 23, 2012, “Decision Isn't America's Alone To Make”, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/is-arctic-oil-drilling-ready-f.php

The decision on whether Arctic oil drilling is ready for prime time is not the

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oil resources will be developed. The only open question is by whom?

The US needs to take the lead in the Arctic – failure to do so causes other countries to fill in

Sullivan 12 Dan Sullivan, a former state attorney general, is the commissioner of Alaska's Department of Natural Resources, July 20, 2012, “It's time to develop our Arctic resources”, http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/opinion/sullivan-arctic-drilling/index.html

The United States is on the verge of an energy renaissance. We need to

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the world that it can be a strong leader in responsible energy development.

US should drill in Arctic OCS

Carroll 11 Carlton Carroll is a Media Relations Representative for the American Petroleum Institute, February 24, 2011, “API calls on Obama administration to open up Alaska’s OCS, cites new study”, http://www.api.org/News-and-Media/News/NewsItems/2011/feb-2011/api-calls-on-Obama-administration-to-open-up-alaskas-ocs-cites-new-study.aspx

A new study, showing important advantages to the U.S. economy and

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TAPS), a critical lifeline of domestic energy for America,” he added.

Plan Text

Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on oil extraction in the Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf.

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Diversification key to prevent collapse

Buckley 12 Neil Buckley is Eastern Europe Editor for the Financial Times, June 20, 2012, “Economy: Oil dependency remains a fundamental weakness”, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/438712b2-b497-11e1-bb2e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz24aaXSqYl

But some analysts are more cautious. Russia’s Higher School of Economics warns that if

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main policy aim: diversifying the economy away from reliance on extractive industries.

High prices don’t solve Russian economic growth-~--too many alt causes and oil will never go high enough

Grinkevich 12 Vlad Grinkevich, RIA Novosti economic commentator, "High Oil Prices Open “Window of Opportunity” for Russian Economy" 1/27 en.rian.ru/analysis/20120127/170994608.html

However, the IMF predicts that the Russian economy will grow,

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approaching the point where it will no longer guarantee relatively stable economic development.”

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We meet – plan reduces restrictions

Andrew Callus 12, writer for Reuters, September 17, 2012, “Shell admits Arctic drilling defeat, for now”, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49066128/ns/business-oil_and_energy/#.UFkgZo1lSAo

Shell's activities in the Beaufort Sea, another Arctic province, have been hit by

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and breeding seasons and requirements for expensive emergency equipment to be on standby.

Restrictions make production more difficult or expensive

LVM Institute 96, Ludwig Von Mises Institute Original Book by Ludwig Von Mises, Austrian Economist in 1940. Evidence is cut from fourth edition copyright Bettina B. Greaves, “Human Action”http://mises.org/pdf/humanaction/pdf/ha_29.pdf

Restriction of production means that the government either forbids or makes more difficult or more

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needs as much as possible. Such interference makes people poorer and less satisfied

Restriction is a regulation or limit on use of property

Reade 8 LINDA R. READE, District Court Judge, Opinion in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs. RONALD L. COLEMAN, Defendant.No. 07-CR-66-LRRUNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA, CEDAR RAPIDS DIVISION545 F. Supp. 2d 854; 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26803April 1, 2008, DecidedApril 2, 2008, Filed, lexis

. . . . Although [§ 802(44)] does not define what constitutes a "restriction," reference to Webster's dictionary provides adequate elucidation of its ordinary meaning. In Webster's, a "restriction" is defined as "a regulation that restricts or restrains," or "a limitation on the use or enjoyment of property or a facility." Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 1006 (9th ed. 1991).

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Romney win-~--polls wrong

Morris 9/21—American political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant (Dick, Why The Polls Under State Romney Vote, www.dickmorris.com/why-the-polls-under-state-romney-vote/)

Republicans are getting depressed under an avalanche of polling suggesting that an Obama victory is

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on an unusually high turnout of his base the Obama camp really is.

No link – voters don’t care

Bergh 12 Kristofer Bergh is a Researcher with the SIPRI (an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament) Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme, July 2012, “THE ARCTIC POLICIES OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: DOMESTIC MOTIVES AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT”, http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=34andved=0CDUQFjADOB4andurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.sipri.org%2Ffiles%2Finsight%2FSIPRIInsight1201.pdfandei=OFc0UMylM4PiyAHKooHYDgandusg=AFQjCNE13_sQtGcwRbswbGmoBB0fow1F1w

Many features of Canadian and US societies are intimately intertwined. The two countries share

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Arctic a top national priority, closely linked to Canadian identity and sovereignty.

Plan popular

Jaffe and Coan 11 Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace S. Wilson fellow in energy studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and director of the Baker Institute Energy Forum and James Coan is a research associate for the Energy Forum at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, “The Risk and Regulation of Deepwater Offshore Drilling: American and Canadian Perspectives”, October 2011, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/One%20Issue_14_Offshore_FINAL.pdf

The majority of Americans (60 percent) still favor increasing offshore oil drilling and

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percent), which may somewhat change the political dynamic on this hotbutton issue.

Energy policy won’t switch votes—it’s all about the economy

AP 8/12 (Associated Press, “Climate change not a presidential election issue yet”, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57489676/climate-change-not-a-presidential-election-issue-yet/)

Barack Obama promised to tackle climate change when he first ran for the White House

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. "What is done about it awaits the outcome of this election."

Plan  popular – creates jobs

CNN 11 CNN Money, September 7, 2011, “Big Oil: To create jobs, let us drill more”, http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/07/news/economy/oil_jobs/

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- With job creation taking center stage in American politics

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, strengthen our energy security and generate significant government revenue without raising taxes." 

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Poverty’s not the root cause of war

Miller 2k – Professor of Management, Ottawa (Morris, Poverty As A Cause Of Wars?, http://www.pugwash.org/reports/pac/pac256/WG4draft1.htm)

During this last century war has taken more lives and wrought more damage than in

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to have a significant impact in reducing the occurrence and intensity of wars.

Poverty falling

Perry 11—economics and management, U Mich. PhD from George Mason and MBA from U Minnesota (Mark, Greatest Reduction In World Poverty Ever In History: Isn’t Free Trade Partly Responsible?, 21 March 2011, http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2011/03/21/greatest-reduction-in-world-poverty-ever-in-history-isnt-free-trade-partly-responsible/, ALP)

Ian Fletcher claims here that “Free Trade Isn’t Helping World Poverty,” and Don

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agriculture, the collapse of central planning in China and India, etc. 

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Relations TANKING and the link is non-unique—this card is GOAT

Derek H. Burney and Fen Olser Hampson 12, Senior Strategic Adviser at Norton Rose Canada and served as Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 1989 to 1993 and serves on the Board of Directors of TransCanada, AND Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, "How Obama Lost Canada," June 21, Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137744/derek-h-burney-and-fen-osler-hampson/how-obama-lost-canada

Permitting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline should have been an easy diplomatic and

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want to sell our energy to people who want to buy our energy.”

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Coast Guard is prepared for increased drilling in the Arctic

Joling 12 Dan Joling, writer for The Associated Press, August 6, 2012, “Coast Guard prepares for expanded Arctic role”, http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/08/ap-coast-guard-prepares-expanded-arctic-role-080612/

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard is ready for expanded activity in Arctic waters

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opens more of the Arctic to cargo vessels, ecotourism and possibly commercial fishing

Climate change proves Oceans and marine bioD are resilient – alarmist predictions empirically denied

Taylor 10 [James M. Taylor is a senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment and Climate News., “Ocean Acidification Scare Pushed at Copenhagen,” Feb 10 http://www.heartland.org/publications/environment%20climate/article/26815/Ocean_Acidification_Scare_Pushed_at_Copenhagen.html]

With global temperatures continuing their decade-long decline and United Nations-sponsored global

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The phenomenon of CO2-induced ocean acidification appears to be no different.

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No move to solve warming now

LeVine 12 Steve LeVine is a writer for Foreign Policy, JUNE 5, 2012, “Can We Survive the New Golden Age of Oil?”, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/05/can_we_survive_the_new_golden_age_of_oil?page=0,0

Intentionally or not, the golden-age scenario seems tailored for the current international

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political strength to do much other than embrace the golden-age scenario.

Plan solves renewables – bridge fuel – sudden transition causes backlash

LeVine 12 Steve LeVine is a writer for Foreign Policy, JUNE 5, 2012, “Can We Survive the New Golden Age of Oil?”, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/05/can_we_survive_the_new_golden_age_of_oil?page=0,0

Where the oil-age theorists seem likely to experience almost no pushback is in

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leading to prolonged adherence to carbon fuels for political reasons," he says.

No impact-~--mitigation and adaptation will solve-~--no tipping point or “1% risk” args

Robert O. Mendelsohn 9, the Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, June 2009, “Climate Change and Economic Growth,” online: http://www.growthcommission.org/storage/cgdev/documents/gcwp060web.pdf

The heart of the debate about climate change comes from a number of warnings from

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economic growth and well‐being may be at risk (Stern 2006).

These statements are largely alarmist and misleading. Although climate change is a serious problem

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range climate risks. What is needed are long‐run balanced responses.

No positive feedbacks-~--this takes out 100% of the impact to warming

Fritz Vahrenholt 12, Honorary Professor of chemistry at the University of Hamburg, former Umweltsenator in the German Ministry for Environment, Scientific Reviewer for the 2010 IPCC, June 18, 2012, “Global warming: second thoughts of an environmentalist,” The Telegraph, online: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9338939/Global-warming-second-thoughts-of-an-environmentalist.html

Furthermore, what is little known is that CO2 also requires a strong amplifier if

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in an impartial and open-minded way.

Warming’s not anthropogenic

Don J. Easterbrook 11, Emeritus Professor of Geology at Western Washington University, 2011, “Geologic Evidence of Recurring Climate Cycles and Their Implications for the Cause of Global Climate Changes: The Past is the Key to the Future,” in Evidence-Based Climate Science, ed. Easterbrook, p. 4

Recent global warming (1978-1998) has pushed climate changes into the forefront

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climate in the future: the past is the key to the future.

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The U.S. already has significant marine protections for coral reefs

Craig 3 – Robin Kundis Craig, associate professor of law, Indiana University School of Law, Winter 2003, McGeorge Law Review, “Taking Steps Toward Marine Wilderness Protection? Fishing and Coral Reef Marine Reserves in Florida and Hawaii,” 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155, p. 213

Because of the coral reefs' importance to U.S. fisheries and their intrinsic

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in the South Atlantic/Caribbean and 5,000 in the Pacific)."

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Plan is bipartisan

Russell 8/15 Barry Russell is President of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, August 15, 2012, “Energy Must Transcend Politics”, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php#2238176

There have been glimpses of great leadership, examples when legislators have reached across the

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) is another Democratic leader who consistently votes to promote responsible energy development.

Plan is common ground

O’Keefe 12 William O'Keefe is CEO at the George C. Marshall Institute, a think tank that promotes better use of science in public policy, August 14, 2012, “The Sweet Spot: Bipartisan Energy Policy”, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php

Since 1973, it has been national policy to reduce dependence on oil from unstable

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imports and could supply more if obstacles to the Keystone pipeline are removed.

Winners win – passing energy bills can break partisan gridlock and gain Obama momentum

Izadi 8/29 Elahe is a writer for the National Journal. “Former Sen. Trent Lott, Ex-Rep. Jim Davis Bemoan Partisanship on Energy Issues,” 2012, http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/former-members-bemoan-partisanship-on-energy-issues-20120829

In a climate where everything from transportation issues to the farm bill have gotten caught

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job is very simple: adult supervision of the Congress,” Davis said.

Political capital theory’s wrong-~--8% chance of the disad at best

Beckmann and Kumar 11 – Matthew N. Beckmann, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science and Center for the Study of Democracy @ U. C., Irvine, and Vimal Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, September 2011, “Opportunism in polarization: presidential success in Senate key votes, 1953-2008,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, p. 488

The final important piece in our theoretical model--presidents' political capital--also finds

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scales, which often will not matter, but can in close cases.

Policies are considered individually

Jones 2000 (Charles Jones, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Presidential Studies Quarterly, March, 2000 p.6)

Besides not considering the full range of available

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with which the president is most concerned.

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Limiting oil imports to Canada and Mexico key to heg

LeVine 11 Steve LeVine is a writer for Foreign Policy, November 1, 2011, “Is this group think, or is the U.S. about to be energy-independent?”, http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/11/01/is_this_group_think_or_is_the_us_about_to_be_energy_independent?wpisrc=obinsite

What could undermine the prognoses is if the result is relatively low oil prices,

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off an economy that has these two pillars of long-term strength.

Conflicting strategies make China relations collapse inevitable despite stated objectives

Henry A. Kissinger 12, Chair of Kissinger Associates and a former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, "The Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations: Conflict Is a Choice, Not a Necessity," March/April, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91, Issue 2

ON JANUARY 19, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese

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] some tiny-scale battles that could deter provocateurs from going further."

No impact to prolif

Tepperman 9—Deputy Editor at Newsweek. Frmr Deputy Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs. LLM, i-law, NYU. MA, jurisprudence, Oxford. (Jonathan, Why Obama Should Learn to Love the Bomb, http://jonathantepperman.com/Welcome_files/nukes_Final.pdf)

A growing and compelling body of research suggests that nuclear weapons may not, in

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oppressive, but nothing in their behavior suggests they have a death wish. 

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OCS is any submerged lands outside state jurisdictions

Hill 8, Brian, J.D., The University of South Carolina School of Law, 2008, “Lifting the Ban on Offshore Drilling in the Southeastern United States:  Sound Economics or Future Environmental Disaster?,” http://law.sc.edu/environmental/papers/200841/eas/hill.pdf

After passage of the SLA, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)

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Federal action that would affect land and water use of the coastal zone.

Perm shields elections

Overby 3 A. Brooke, Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law, “Our New Commercial Law Federalism.” Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education Temple Law Review, Summer, 2003  76 Temp. L. Rev. 297 Lexis

We held in New York that Congress cannot compel the States to enact or enforce

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does not erase these concerns with accountability,  it does ameliorate them slightly.

Only the federal government controls OCS policy

MMS Accessed 12 Minerals Management Service, federal agency previously in charge of regulating activity in the OCS (now the BOEM), “The Outer Continental Shelf”, Accessed September 19, 2012, http://ocsenergy.anl.gov/guide/ocs/index.cfm

The U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) as defined by the

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Government administers the submerged lands, subsoil, and seabed of the OCS.

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Certainty key to Arctic investment

Chazan and Crooks 9/4 Guy Chazan and Ed Crooks, writers for the Financial Times, September 4, 2012, “Shell woes deter others from US Arctic”, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/48b8471a-f6aa-11e1-9dff-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26B8B8Ak1

Royal Dutch Shell’s regulatory problems in the US Arctic, where it has faced repeated

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comfort that they will be allowed to do it in a predictable manner.”

CP is the squo

Jaffe and Coan 11 Amy Myers Jaffe is the Wallace S. Wilson fellow in energy studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and director of the Baker Institute Energy Forum and James Coan is a research associate for the Energy Forum at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, “The Risk and Regulation of Deepwater Offshore Drilling: American and Canadian Perspectives”, October 2011, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/One%20Issue_14_Offshore_FINAL.pdf

BOEMRE is now establishing authority over all aspects of and activities relating to offshore leases

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assumptions and calculations that will be verified by geologists and engineers at the agency

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Perm shields the link

Perine 8 (Katherine, Staff – CQ Politics, “Congress Unlikely to Try to Counter Supreme Court Detainee Ruling”, 6-12,  http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002896528andcpage=2)

Thursday’s decision, from a Supreme Court

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say, ‘The devil made me do it.’ ”

Courts link to politics

Mr. Mirengoff 2010 is an attorney in Washington, D.C. A.B., Dartmouth College J.D., Stanford Law School, June 23 The Federalist Society Online Debate Series, http://www.fed-soc.org/debates/dbtid.41/default.asp

The other thing I found interesting was the degree to which Democrats used the hearings

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president at that time, he likely will receive some of the blame.

Court stripping jacks the CP

ROBERT KOULISH 8 Associate Professor of Law and Society, Philadelphia University "BLACKWATER AND THE PRIVATIZATON  OF IMMIGRATION CONTROL" 11/4 http://faculty.philau.edu/koulishr/documents/3KoulishFINAL.pdf

In 1996, following the Oklahoma City bombing, Congress permitted  the use of secret

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authority to detain without  charge or trial for an indefinite period of time.

Once again, immigration was the catalyst for expanding executive  powers and diminishing judicial review

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punishing judges and avoiding future rulings regarding the  preservation of individual rights.41 

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Extinction outweighs

Craig Paterson 3 - Department of Philosophy, Providence College, Rhode Island (Craig, “A Life Not Worth Living?”, Studies in Christian Ethics,http://sce.sagepub.com)

Contrary to those accounts, I would argue that it is death per se that

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destroy the person, the very source and condition of all human possibility.

The alternative is impossible to implement -~-- technological management of nature is necessary to restore ecosystems

Anderson 96 -- political scientist, social psychologist, and author of numerous non-fiction books.  President Emeritus of the World Academy of Art and Science; a founding Fellow of the Meridian Intl Institute; a Fellow of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute; and a Distinguished Consulting Faculty member of Saybrook U. (Walter, There's no going back to nature, Sept/Oct 96 Issue, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/09/theres-no-going-back-nature)

This doesn't mean the future is going to be terrible -- far from it.

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West -- are essentially techniques for using natural resources without using them up.

Focus on ontology/epistemology bad—doesn’t affect our truth claims and destroys political problem-solving

Owen 2 [David Owen, Reader of Political Theory at the Univ. of Southampton,  Millennium Vol 31 No 3 2002 p. 655-7]

Commenting on the ‘philosophical turn’ in IR, Wæver remarks that ‘[a]

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the first and second dangers, and so a potentially vicious circle arises.

Lefty environmental alarmism fails-~--we must create sustainable energy by pursuing oil to solve-~--only the aff offers a middle-ground whereas their alt disadvantages everyone except the small intellectual elite

Bradley 3 Robert, president of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute. He received the Julian Simon Memorial Award for 2002 and is author, most recently, of Climate Alarmism Reconsidered, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, "Energy Realism Overtaking Energy Alarmism" October 1, news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2003/10/01/energy-realism-overtaking-energy-alarmism?quicktabs_4=1

In the 1970s and 1980s, energy policy debates in the U.S.

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 must ask themselves: Is this worth fighting for?

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Reps focus devolves into deconstruction without concrete means of re-representing—tubes the alt and detaches academics from reality, destroying progressive reform

Kidner 2K, professor of psychology at Nottingham Trent University and internationally renowned scholar on nature-culture relationships. 00 (nature and psyche p. 65-7)

In addition, the deconstructive bent of discursive approaches limits their capacity to challenge the

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the “human from the “natural” and  abandons nature to industrialism.

Threats real and not constructed—rational risk assessment goes aff

Knudsen 1– PoliSci Professor at Sodertorn (Olav, Post-Copenhagen Security Studies, Security Dialogue 32:3)

Moreover, I have a problem with the underlying implication that it is unimportant whether

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instance), not least to find adequate democratic procedures for dealing with them.

Reps focus devolves into deconstruction without concrete means of re-representing—tubes the alt and detaches academics from reality, destroying progressive reform

Kidner 2K, professor of psychology at Nottingham Trent University and internationally renowned scholar on nature-culture relationships. 00 (nature and psyche p. 65-7)

In addition, the deconstructive bent of discursive approaches limits their capacity to challenge the

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the “human from the “natural” and  abandons nature to industrialism.

Perm do the plan and all non-competitive parts of the alt – the state coopts the alt

McCormack 10 (Tara, is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster. 2010, (Critique, Security and Power: The political limits to emancipatory approaches, page 59-61)

In chapter 7 I engaged with the human security framework and some of the problematic

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Values must be joined with engagement with the material circumstances of the time.

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Corruption in Russia makes instability inevitable – only decreasing oil revenues allows for the necessary transition

Åslund 8 Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, July 2008, “An Assessment of Putin's Economic Policy”, http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=974

In 2004, Foreign Affairs published a seminal article by Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman

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can no longer afford this corruption that contributes to the current inflation crisis.

That causes misclac and nuclear war

Pry, 99 (Peter Vincent, Former US Intelligence Operative, War Scare:  U.S.-Russia on the Nuclear Brink, netlibrary)

Russian internal troubles—such as a leadership crisis, coup, or civil war

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Russian affairs, with the West ignorant that it was in grave peril.

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Oil dependence causes terrorism

CBS 8 CBS News, July 11, 2008, “Obama Says Dependency on Foreign Oil Poses Terrorist Threat to U.S.”, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-502443_162-4253821-502443.html

Barack Obama used a little bit of fear today to get his point across of

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this will cause [the Americans] to die off on their own."

Extinction

Hellman 8 (Martin E, emeritus prof of engineering @ Stanford, “Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence” SPRING, THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI, http://www.nuclearrisk.org/paper.pdf)

The threat of nuclear terrorism looms much larger in the public’s mind than the threat

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assume that  preventing World War III is a necessity—not an option. 

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Plan Text

Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on oil extraction in the Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf.

Arctic Leadership

Advantage one is Arctic Leadership

Obama is expanding access now but the current plan is too restrictive

Reuters 12 June 28, 2012, “U.S. unveils final drilling plan, limits Arctic sales”, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-usa-drilling-offshore-idUSBRE85R1MJ20120628?feedType=RSSandfeedName=everythingandvirtualBrandChannel=11563

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. oil companies will be allowed to

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,” said Doc Hastings, Republican chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee.

Arctic on the brink of great-power conflict – diplomacy is no longer an option

Tassinari 9/7 Fabrizio Tassinari is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Head of Foreign Policy and EU Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies, September 7, 2012, “Avoiding a Scramble for the High North”, http://blog.gmfus.org/2012/09/07/avoiding-a-scramble-for-the-high-north/

The geopolitics of the Arctic are stuck in a paradox: The more regional players

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not hard to conjure up the prospect of an Arctic race building up.

Arctic conflict goes nuclear

Wallace and Staples 10 Michael Wallace is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia; Steven Staples is President of the Rideau Institute in Ottawa, March 2010, “Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons A Task Long Overdue”, http://www.arcticsecurity.org/docs/arctic-nuclear-report-web.pdf

The fact is, the Arctic is becoming a zone of increased military competition.

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-political/economic significance of the Arctic because of climate change.” 62

Offshore drilling is key to US leadership in the Arctic

Cohen and Altman 11 Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Anton Altman is a research volunteer at The Heritage Foundation, August 16, 2011, “Russia’s Arctic Claims: Neither LOST nor Forgotten”, http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/16/russias-arctic-claims-neither-lost-nor-forgotten/

Moscow has an unquestionable head start on the rest of the world, and it

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.S. ability to access polar waters and the Arctic Ocean bed.

US leadership is necessary to prevent conflict

Borgerson 10 SCOTT G. BORGERSON is International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, April 2008, “Arctic Meltdown: The Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming”, http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/20032581.pdf?acceptTC=true

Washington cannot afford to stand idly by. The Arctic region is not currently governed

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, the region could erupt in an armed mad dash for its resources.

Russia

Next is Russia --

Failure to open US Arctic drives countries to Russia – destroys the environment

Sullivan 12 Dan Sullivan, a former state attorney general, is the commissioner of Alaska's Department of Natural Resources, “Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Power”, August 2, 2012, http://dnr.alaska.gov/commis/testimony/Sullivan_House%20Energy_Power_8_2_2012.pdf

Unfortunately, potential investors have expressed reluctance to pursue resource development projects in the United

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blame for the investment in lax overseas jurisdictions where environmental degradation is common.

Russian drilling makes Arctic environmental catastrophe inevitable – currents mean it collapses the entire ecosystem

Heath 12 Julia Heath is a writer for Foreign Policy in Focus, February 15, 2012, “Preventing a Blowout in the Arctic”, http://www.fpif.org/articles/preventing_a_blowout_in_the_arctic

The Russian Record¶ Russia has had a terrible environmental record and a history of

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cultural, ecological, and economic disaster for the United States as well.

Spills over to global biodiversity

Gill 09 (Michael Gill, Chair of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, “ABSTRACT: BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES”, March, UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/csi/LINKS/monaco-abstracts/Gill_abstract_MonacoUNESCOarctic.pdf)

Arctic ecosystems and the biodiversity they support are experiencing growing pressure from  climate change and

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addition, biodiversity maintains the ecological balance necessary for planetary and human survival.

Biodiversity loss causes extinction

Science Daily 11 ("Biodiversity Key to Earth's Life-Support Functions in a Changing World,"  Cites Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, August 11, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084513.htm)

The biological diversity of organisms on Earth is not just something we enjoy when taking

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diversity is thus a crucial factor in maintaining Earth's life-support functions.

Foreign investment is pushing Russia to attempt to replace their declining reserves by drilling in the Arctic – it’s the only thing keeping Putin in power

Hulbert 12 Matthew Hulbert is an analyst at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations, July 19, 2012, “Arctic oil: Putin's last chance”, http://www.europeanenergyreview.eu/site/pagina.php?id=3813

President Putin is back, but this time he faces daunting challenges on the energy

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international oil companies (IOCs) to help it 'crack' the initial ice.

Corruption in Russia makes instability inevitable – only decreasing oil revenues allows for the necessary transition

Åslund 8 Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, July 2008, “An Assessment of Putin's Economic Policy”, http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=974

In 2004, Foreign Affairs published a seminal article by Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman

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can no longer afford this corruption that contributes to the current inflation crisis.

Now is key – failure to enact political reforms causes violent revolutions

Freeland and Gutterman 12 Chrystia Freeland and Steve Gutterman, writers for Reuters, January 17, 2012, “Russia faces violent revolution if it doesn’t embrace democracy, billionaire Putin challenger declares”, http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/17/russia-faces-violent-revolution-if-it-doesnt-embrace-democracy-billionaire-putin-challenger-declares/

MOSCOW — Mikhail Prokhorov, a super-rich tycoon challenging Vladimir Putin for Russia’s

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living in the big cities, want to live in a democratic country.”

That causes misclac and nuclear war

Pry, 99 (Peter Vincent, Former US Intelligence Operative, War Scare:  U.S.-Russia on the Nuclear Brink, netlibrary)

Russian internal troubles—such as a leadership crisis, coup, or civil war

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Russian affairs, with the West ignorant that it was in grave peril.

Putin causes Russia-NATO war and expansionism

Cohen 12 Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy at The Heritage Foundation, “Putin’s Crackdown Foretells “Fortress Russia””, October 18, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/10/putins-new-fortress-russia

As the Russian punk-rock band members “Pussy Riot” appeal their two

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an already-decided-upon $700 billion, massive military buildup.

Extinction

Helfand and Pastore 9 Ira Helfand, M.D., and John O. Pastore, M.D., are past presidents of Physicians for Social Responsibility. March 31, 2009, “U.S.-Russia nuclear war still a threat”, http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_pastoreline_03-31-09_EODSCAO_v15.bbdf23.html

President Obama and Russian President Dimitri Medvedev are scheduled to Wednesday in London during the

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alert status of nuclear weapons that existed  in 1995 remains in place today.

Russian resurgence causes global nuclear war

Blank 9 – Dr. Stephen Blank , Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, March 2009, “Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?,” online: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub908.pdf

Proliferators or nuclear states like China and Russia can then deter regional or intercontinental attacks

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perhaps make wars of aggression on their neighbors or their own people.172

Unchecked Russian expansionism destroys U.S. hegemony

Cohen 9 – Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, March 12, 2009, “How the Obama Administration Should Deal with Russia's Revisionist Foreign Policy,” online: http://www.heritage.org/research/russiaandeurasia/bg2246.cfm

Despite the economic crisis that provided a reality check for Moscow, Russia is doing

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destabilizing the existing international system and its institutions while offering no viable alternatives.

Extinction

Barnett 11 (Thomas P.M., Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, “The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads,” March 7 http:~/~/www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/8099/com/articles/8099/the-new-rules-leadership-fatigue-puts-u-s-and-globalization-at-crossroads)

Events in Libya are a further reminder for Americans that we stand at a crossroads

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the 20th century, setting the stage for the Pacific Century now unfolding.

Putin causes nuclear modernization

Cohen 12 Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is senior research fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Heritage Foundation, “Putin 4.0: Tough Times Ahead”, March 7, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/03/putin-40-tough-times-ahead

Putin bet his political farm on creating an image of Russia under attack from Western

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much for traveling on Barack Obama's "road to zero" nuclear warheads.

Putin is pushing Borei class submarines – causes deployment of Bulava missiles

Bryanski 12 Gleb Bryanski, writer for Reuters, “Russia to get stronger nuclear navy, Putin says”, July 30, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/30/us-russia-putin-navy-idUSBRE86T1D320120730

President Vladimir Putin oversaw the start of construction of one of Russia's newest generation submarines

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Russia is pushing to modernize its fighting forces, and redesign its armaments.

Now is key – deployment begins next year

PD 10/22 People’s Daily (Xinhua), “Russia delays commissioning of first Borei class submarine”, October 22, 2012, http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7986872.html

MOSCOW, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Russia's strategic nuclear submarine Yury Dolgoruky

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eight strategic submarines of the same class Russia plans to build until 2020.

Bulavas are key to Russia’s attempts to reestablish strategic deterrence-~--causes miscalculated nuclear war and extinction

Engdahl 7 – F. William Engdahl, contributor to the Centre for Research on Globalization, February 20, 2007, “Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or, what happens when Cowboys don’t shoot straight like they used to… ,” online: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaandaid=4873

In April 2006, the Russian military tested the K65M-R missile, a

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irradiate the planet and, perhaps, end human civilization in the process.

High risk that Russia will use nukes

Cohen ’10 – Sr. Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy @ Heritage

Obama’s Approach to Arms Control Misreads Russian Nuclear Strategy, Published on April 12, 2010 by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. WebMemo #2858

At the signing of the START follow-on treaty, Medvedev reiterated the Russian

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. defensive systems, this approach to arms control is doomed to fail.

Solvency

Arctic drilling inevitable – US needs to take the lead

O’Keefe 12 William O'Keefe is CEO at the George C. Marshall Institute, a think tank that promotes better use of science in public policy, July 23, 2012, “Decision Isn't America's Alone To Make”, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/is-arctic-oil-drilling-ready-f.php

The decision on whether Arctic oil drilling is ready for prime time is not the

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oil resources will be developed. The only open question is by whom?

The US needs to take the lead in the Arctic – failure to do so causes other countries to fill in

Sullivan 12 Dan Sullivan, a former state attorney general, is the commissioner of Alaska's Department of Natural Resources, July 20, 2012, “It's time to develop our Arctic resources”, http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/20/opinion/sullivan-arctic-drilling/index.html

The United States is on the verge of an energy renaissance. We need to

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the world that it can be a strong leader in responsible energy development.

US should drill in Arctic OCS

Carroll 11 Carlton Carroll is a Media Relations Representative for the American Petroleum Institute, February 24, 2011, “API calls on Obama administration to open up Alaska’s OCS, cites new study”, http://www.api.org/News-and-Media/News/NewsItems/2011/feb-2011/api-calls-on-Obama-administration-to-open-up-alaskas-ocs-cites-new-study.aspx

A new study, showing important advantages to the U.S. economy and

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TAPS), a critical lifeline of domestic energy for America,” he added.