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Aff: Brownfields

Obama winning now – swing state polls
Bowen 9-20 (Robert, The Examiner, “New Fox News Poll Released Thursday Shows Obama Winning Three Key Swing States,” http://www.examiner.com/article/new-fox-news-poll-released-thursday-shows-obama-winning-3-key-swing-states)

Despite two re-set buttons, ....and five points in Virginia.

Any Alt energy costs pol cap – Solyndra and House Republicans
Sustainable Business News  9-11 (What You Should Know About Solyndra as Smear Campaign Accelerates During Election SustainableBusiness.com News http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/24064)

This week, House Republicans will hold...given the David and Goliath situation?

Romney crashes U.S.-Chinese relations
Osnos 9-21 (2012, Evan, The New Yorker, “The Chinese View of Obama and Romney,” http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/09/china-on-romney-and-obama.html)

More surprising is that...companies buy American technology firms.

US-Sino Relations key to international stability – prerequisite to all impacts

Cohen 2009 (William S., and Greenberg, Maurice.  Commission Cochairs of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Smart Power in US China Relations,” http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090309_mcgiffert_uschinasmartpower_web.pdf)

The evolution of Sino-U.S. relations...and cooperation between—the United States and China.

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The aff's focus on race shatters class based coalitions against capitalism - even if oppression is found within intersectionality, capitalism is a much greater force to fostering that inequality, which means we turn the case.
Dander and Torres 99
A. Darder and R. Torres, 1999.Darder is a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies, Torres is Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design, Chicano/Latino Studies, and Political Science. “Shattering the Race Lens: Towards a Critical Theory of Racism.” Critical Ethnicity. P. 174-6

[W]e work with raced identities on already reified ground...prevailing class relations of power in society.

Capitalism leaves hundreds of millions starving and suffering and is pushing the world to the brink of nuclear extinction. Its collapse is inevitable - either by its own hands or by socialist revolution.
Callinicos 4 [Alex, Director of the Centre for European Studies at King’s College, The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx, 2004 pg. 196-197]

Capitalism has not changed its spots. It is still based on the exploitation of the working class...If Marxism is correct, then we must act on it.

Capitalism kills value to life.
Kovel 2 (Joel, Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?)

The monster that now bestrides the world was...for global capital, the losses are regrettable necessities.

The revolution is not a choice – the insurrection is coming, stoked by its own revolutionary impulse. The only choice is how we align ourselves. A negative ballot acts as an entrenchment against the empire – to resonate the revolutionary rhythm in the pedagogical sphere and herald a new era
The Invisible Committee 9 - French Terrorists (The Coming Insurrection)

Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance...How do we subsist? How do we find each other?

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Double bind – Either the harms to the 1AC are true and they cannot solve for extinction before they control the levers of power OR their harms are constructed for the purpose of alarmism which makes them symbolic terrorists.

Shotgun Kuwasara – we read the conclusion to his article: even if some predictions are good, Apocalyptic predictions make serial policy failure inevitable
Kurasawa 4 – Professor of Sociology, York University of Toronto, Fuyuki, “Cautionary Tales: The Global Culture of Prevention and the Work of Foresight”, Constellations Volume 11, No 4, http://www.yorku.ca/kurasawa/Kurasawa%20Articles/Constellations%20Article.pdf
Up to this point, I have tried to demonstrate...the precautionary principle and global justice. 

The alternative is to reject the apocalyptic frames of the 1AC

Even if the rational arguments in favor of the plan are logical, the representations of apocalypse colonize the debate towards pressure for fast invasion and warmongering
Goodnight 2010 (G. Thomas Goodnight is Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; "The Metapolitics of the 2002 Iraq Debate: Public Policy and the Network Imaginary", Rhetoric and Public Affairs Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2010)
Opponents of the Democratic Party ... haunt twenty-first-century network imaginaries.

Beginning at the level of the individual is key to prevent the culture of fear.  Fear is not solely instilled by the state upon its people, but rather is initiated and reproduced by civil society
Bell 2007 (Daniel M., Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, JCRT 8.2 SPRING 2007 55,d  http://www.jcrt.org/archives/08.2/)
There is yet another lesson ... their communities and children and so forth.

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Russian economy is growing because of high oil prices – that’s key to political stability
Adomanis 12
Mark Adomanis. Contributor. “Russia's Economy is Still Growing, and Why This Matters” Forbes 5/24/12. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2012/05/24/russias-economy-is-still-growing-and-why-this-matters/

I’ve long been of the opinion that a regime like Putin’s...through for at least another few years.

Perception of domestic energy production collapses prices – empirically proven
Pyle 11
Thomas J. Pyle. President, Institute for Energy Research (IER). American Production Sways Oil Prices. National Journal. May 12, 2011. http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/05/what-sways-global-oil-prices.php

Needless to say, the government is playing a major role in the rising price of oil...ban expired, the price dropped even further.

Multiple scenarios for nuclear war
Oliker and Charlick-Paley 2
(OlgaOliker and TanyaCharlick-Paley, RAND Corporation Project Air Force, “Assessing Russia’s Decline,” www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1442/)

The preceding chapters have illustrated the ways in which...nonstate terrorist actors, increasing the risk of nuclear war.

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The Supreme Court should rule that insert restriction/regulation/requirement violates the 10th Amendment right of states to self-govern.

Courts solve the case
Maharrey 12 Mike Maharrey. Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center. Ohio group: Tenth Amendment key to energy independence. Tenth Amendment Center. August 24, 2012. http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/08/ohio-group-tenth-amendment-key-to-energy-independence/

 “Energy policy and initiatives that originate...The states will once again control their own destiny,” he said.

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Text: The United States federal government should fully fund and support international cooperation on the research and deployment of atmospheric aerosol injection and carbon air capture and storage with the goal of stabilizing global climate change at pre-industrial levels by 2050. Support for international cooperation should include compensation for parties harmed by geoengineering. 

Research funding causes a cooperative international expansion of geoengineering.
Brand 9—Lifetime environmentalist, President of the Long Now Foundation and author of the Whole Earth Catalog which won the National Book award in 1972, Stewart, Whole Earth Discipline, pg 294-5

Because the cost of some geoengineering schemes is so low, Victor predicts...The planet's one universal climate requires something similar.

Geo-engineering solves warming.
Lenton and Vaughan 9—T . M. Lenton, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, and N. E. Vaughan, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK, The radiative forcing potential of different climate geoengineering options, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 5539–5561, 2009

Abstract. Climate geoengineering proposals seek to rectify...prioritisation of further research into them.

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Renewables transition now—its solving warming.
Leonhardt 12—David Leonhardt is the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, There’s Still Hope for the Planet, NYT, 7-22

Behind the scenes, however...president of the Breakthrough Institute in Oakland, Calif.

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Renewables transition key to environmental leadership—solves warming.
Madsen et al 9—Travis Madsen and Tony Dutzik  Frontier Group  Bernadette Del Chiaro and Rob Sargent  Environment America Research and Policy Center, Generating Failure, Environment America,   November, http://www.environmentamericacenter.org/sites/environment/files/reports/Generating-Failure~-~--Environment-America~-~--Web.pdf

Quick Action Through Clean Energy Can Demonstrate International Leadership...in building a clean technology and clean energy economy.

Environmental leadership solves extinction.
Khosla 9—IUCN President, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Ashok, A new President for the United States: We have a dream, International Union for Conservation of Nature, 1-27, http://www.iucn.org/involved/opinion/?2595/new-President-for-the-United-States-We-have-a-dream
A rejuvenated America, with a renewed purpose, commitment...from our wasteful industries, construction, agriculture and transport systems.