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Brownfields are deemed unusable and abandoned. Despite this, people living in these areas create their identities among and with them.
Mah 9 (Alice Mah, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, “Devastation but also Home: Place Attachment in Areas of Industrial Decline”, 2009, Home Cultures, Vol. 8, Iss. 3, pp. 306-307) lm

The status quo denies subjects who have a personal attachment to these places an avenue for their loss. Theories of melancholia provide an opportunity for this.
Mortimer-Sandilands 10 (Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Professor of Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability at York University, “Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies”,  Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, 2010, pp. 338-339) lm

The United States Federal Government should offer to accept all liability imposed by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for the production and construction of wind projects on Brownfields.
USFG accepts liability for brownfield wind projects
Yale Environment 360 2011 http://blog.cleantechies.com/2011/06/24/brown-to-green-a-new-use-for-blighted-industrial-sites/

Incorporating loss into identity makes space for transformation and an acceptance of primary vulnerability. The subject reconciles past with present through the ability to build the present with the ruins of the past.
Mortimer-Sandilands 10 (Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Professor of Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability at York University, “Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies”,  Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, 2010, pp. 339-341) lm

Wind turbines disrupt the fantasy of a unified Nature and allow us to incorporate vulnerability through an aesthetic of the sublime.  
Morton 10 (Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, 2010, The Ecological Thought, pp 9-10) lm 

Dependence on the Other that informs our identity leads to a lack of autonomy that is transformative.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 27-28) lm

Acceptance of the primary vulnerability to violence creates potential for non-violent action.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 28-29) lm
 
The subject is constituted by vulnerability, which is then exploited by societal forces to create a hierarchy of grievable lives.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 30-32) lm

\These ungrievable lives are excluded ontologically and are subjected to endless violence – acceptance isn’t enough.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 33-34) lm

Recognizing interdependence upon the Other establishes an ethical relationship with them.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 43-44) lm

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Squo federal fiscal policy is predicated upon austerity, with less than 14 percent of the budget providing for social services and less than 17 percent for public energy production. 

Schwartz 11 (Joseph M., professor of political science at Temple University, July 22, 2011, “Obama’s Politics of Austerity,” http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/obamas-politics-of-austerity) lrm
Contrary to right-wing… proposes to freeze!

The United States Federal Government should offer to provide for all costs of the development of wind projects. 

The aesthetic nature of wind turbines symbolize coexistence with the environment – leads to dealing with loss.  
Morton 10 (Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, 2010, The Ecological Thought, pp 9-10) lm
In Lakewood, Colorado… avoids this challenge.
 
Redistribution of capital from the state is tied to the conception of what is a valuable life, and occurs not only on a state, but individual level.
Helms, Vishmidt, and Berlant 10 (Gesa Helms, freelance artist and researcher, Marina Vishmidt, artist and writer, and Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, “Affect and the Politics of Austerity An interview exchange with Lauren Berlant”, 2010, http://www.variant.org.uk/39_40texts/berlant39_40.html)  lrm 

The big question… fantasy, politically) too.

A reevaulation of what constitutes a livable life creates space for openness to difference and an avoidance of totalitarianism.
Helms, Vishmidt, and Berlant 10 (Gesa Helms, freelance artist and researcher, Marina Vishmidt, artist and writer, and Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, “Affect and the Politics of Austerity An interview exchange with Lauren Berlant”, 2010, http://www.variant.org.uk/39_40texts/berlant39_40.html)  lrm 

So if an intimate… capitalist stress position

Acceptance of the primary vulnerability to violence creates potential for non-violent action.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 28-29) lm
Mourning, fear, anxiety, rage…. world formerly was orderly. 

Status quo fiscal policy dictates that the state be dependent upon finance capital, but the public be independent from the state. This politics of austerity allocates vulnerability differently for some more than others.
Helms, Vishmidt, and Berlant 10 (Gesa Helms, freelance artist and researcher, Marina Vishmidt, artist and writer, and Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, “Affect and the Politics of Austerity An interview exchange with Lauren Berlant”, 2010, http://www.variant.org.uk/39_40texts/berlant39_40.html)  lrm 

Polly Toynbee wrote… down too easily.

This vulnerability is taken advantage of by society to render some lives more grievable than others.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 30-32) lm
To grieve, and… ven qualify as “grievable.”

Ungrievable lives are excluded ontologically and are subjected to endless violence – acceptance isn’t enough.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 33-34) lm
I am referring not… cells with violent aims.

Recognizing dependence upon the Other establishes an ethical relationship with them.
Butler 4 (Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC Berkley, 2004, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, pp 43-44) lm
Consider that the struggle… depend in order to be. 

Imagining an alternative to capitalism isn’t enough – economist logic is inevitable. Instead, the state should be compassionate in its providing of welfare to its people.
Helms, Vishmidt, and Berlant 10 (Gesa Helms, freelance artist and researcher, Marina Vishmidt, artist and writer, and Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, “Affect and the Politics of Austerity An interview exchange with Lauren Berlant”, 2010, http://www.variant.org.uk/39_40texts/berlant39_40.html)  lrm 

I’d like to come back… according to an economistic logic