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All 50 State Governments in the United States should establish clean energy finance banks.

Brookings Institute 12’ (Ken Berlin is a senior vice president for policy and planning and general counsel at the Coalition for Green Capital. Reed Hundt is the CEO of the Coalition for Green Capital. Mark Muro is a senior fellow and the director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Devashree Saha is a senior policy analyst and associate fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program; “State Clean Energy Finance Banks: New Investment Facilities for Clean Energy Deployment”; September 2012)

Such an approach would …as pension fund investors.

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A.    Obama winning now: post-convention swing-state surge

Nate Silver, NYT, “Sept 13: After convention bounce, holding Obama’s polls to a higher standard” 9/14 http:~/~/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

Marist University released poll… to quite strong for him.

B.      New spending alienate crucial swing states and derails the economic push

Neil Snyder, chaired professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, 11-13-11, (“The 2012 Presidential Election Will Be Won or Lost in the Middle,” American Thinker,)PHS

The odds of President Obama …the GOP nominee must deliver.

C.     Perception of fixing the economy is key to Obama’s re-election

Feller 11

(Ben Feller, Associated Press, Proquest, 6/6/11)PHS

President Barack Obama cannot escape …taking a while to mend."

D.      A republican victory destroys global warming regulations.

Capiello 2011 (5/27/11, Dina, Associated Press, MSNBC, “GOP Presidential Hopefuls Shift on Global Warming” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43192439/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/gop-presidential-hopefuls-shift-global-warming/)PHS

com/maps/?v=2andwhere1=WASHINGTONandsty=handform=msdate||target="_blank" — For Republican presidential contenders …pollution threaten the economy.

E.      Warming causes extinction

Oliver Tickell (Climate Researcher) August 11 2008 “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, http:~/~/www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange||target="_blank")

We need to get prepared …a similar hothouse Earth.

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The recovery is gaining momentum, but is fragile – maintaining current trends is key

Ewen MacAskill and Dominic Rushe, analysts for the Guardian, 6-26-2012, “OECD says US economy is recovering but income inequality problematic,” The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/26/oecd-us-economy-income-inequality?newsfeed=true

The OECD, which produces..," according to the report.

Increased spending kills the economy – Europe proves

Johnny Munkhammar, adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and MP in Sweden, 6-27-2012, “The End of Stimulus Policy,” American Enterprise Institute, http://www.aei.org/files/2012/06/27/-the-end-of-stimulus-policy_173446935952.pdf

It is clear from … in promoting job growth.

Econ decline causes war

Earl Tilford, PhD in history from George Washington University and served for thirty-two years as a military officer and analyst with the Air Force and Army, 2008, “Critical Mass: Economic Leadership or Dictatorship,” The Cedartown Standard, Lexis

Could it happen again… that point very quickly.

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Energy production is inseparable from capitalist growth—quick tech fixes to scarcity are temporary at best and exclude radical historical critique

Clark and York ‘8 Brett Clark, assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University, and Richard York, coeditor of Organization and Environment and associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, “Rifts and Shifts: Getting to the Root of Environmental Crises,” Monthly Review, Vol. 60, Issue 06, November 2008

The development of energy production create additional ecological rifts.18

We’re also controlling uniqueness, capitalism is going to inevitably collapse, the affs is what props it up and delays the unavoidable.

The contradictions inherent to capitalism make its collapse inevitable.

MESZAROS (Prof. Emeritus @ Univ. Sussex) 1995

Istavan, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition p. 438-9

NEVERTHELESS, we may speak …inescapable process of transition.

Capitalist logic justifies hegemonic expansion promoting aggressive instability resulting in nuclear war, environmental destruction, and planetary collapse

Foster, Oregon University Department of Sociology Professor, 05

(John B., Monthly Review, http:~/~/www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm,)

From the longer view …the history of imperialism.

In order to break down capitalism, we must renounce our beliefs in the current capitalist system, a disbelief in capitalism is necessary to an effective transition to open up spaces for alternatives.

Dr. Adrian Johnston, December 2004 (Research fellow of psychoanalysis @ Emory. “The

cynic's fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the dynamics of belief.” Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture and

Society p.259)

Perhaps the absence of a detailed… the truth? I choose fetishism").