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Energy Policy is a product of capitalism’s attempt to increase productivity and profit. This allows for exploitative working conditions and leads to extinction.
ICC ’11 (Nuclear Energy, Capitalism and Communism, August 16, 2011, http://en.internationalism.org/wr/347/nuclear)

The revolution in the form ... future of humanity today.

Vote neg on ethics - resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility
Zizek and Daly 2004
(Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and Glyn, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, Conversations with Zizek, page 14-16)

For Zizek it is imperative ... otherwise sound matrix.

The alternative is to withdraw from the ideology of capital. Capitalism only survives because we believe it is a truth claim.
Johnston ’04 (Adrian, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory, The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the Dynamics of Belief, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society)

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

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Suspend the Resolution – Hold out for the affective moment before the action/solution proposed by the Aff – the alternative of Aesthetic differentiation allows us to extend the creative tension of the problem while suspending any resolution of it or choice about it

Massumi ‘9 (Brian Massumi, author, MIT Press book editor, and French translator, being interviewed by Joel McKim, “Of Microperception and Micropolitics: An Interview with Brian Massumi, 15 August 2008,” section on Micropolitics: Exploring Ethico-Aesthetics, Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation, No. 3. October 2009, p. 11-12, www.inflexions.org) M Leap

BM: I agree that the potential ... a common language.

This affective micro-political differentiation is superior to their macro-political view from nowhere – their illusions of universal communication and mastery attempt to form consensus for action which is always bankrupt – our immanent practice of critique is the starting point of the political; you should participate in the practices of ‘becoming’ and ‘dissensus’ rather than being a judge of what is

Massumi ‘9 (Brian Massumi, author, MIT Press book editor, and French translator, being interviewed by Joel McKim, “Of Microperception and Micropolitics: An Interview with Brian Massumi, 15 August 2008,” section on Micropolitics: Exploring Ethico-Aesthetics, Inflexions: A Journal for Research-Creation, No. 3. October 2009, p. 12-14, www.inflexions.org) M Leap

 BM: I just don’t think ... judging what is.

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Modernity posits policy on the explanation that “our” ontology composes the natural language of the world.  The west polices to deny the fact that we are at war, a war of modernity against progress.

Latour 2002 (Bruno, Professor at ENS-Paris, War of the Worlds, p. 2-9) MRL

The word “war” is …  known by Reason.

The impact is micro-fascism, which acts as cancerous manipulation of policy in order to replicate itself. This production of a thousand little policemen makes extinction inevitable.

Parr 2005 (Parr, Adrian. 2005. The Deleuze dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pg. 98-99) m leap

Deleuze and Guattari discuss … is portrayed as in Anti-Oedipus.

Therefore we affirm the cyborg as an alternative political metaphor.

The cyborg is a monstrosity outside of humanity, simultaneously subject and object, blurring traditional binaries and opening space for radical politics

Richardson 2012 (Linda, “The Modern Robot and the Postmodern Cyborg: The Post-Human as an Image of Anxiety”. Emergence: A Journal of Undergraduate Literary Criticism and Creative Research. Vol. 3 (2012). http://journals.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/Emergence/article/view/23/85)

Haraway argues that … subject and object.

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There is no environment, only a world populated with presence. We have become estranged through our domination, and our only environment is the metropolis of endless war.

The Invisible Committee 2007 (France’s Premier Terrorist Organization, “The Coming Insurrection”. Semiotext(e) Intervention Series. pg. 73-74) MRL

Ecology is the …  everything that would escape it.

Our alternative is to refuse the 1AC to engage in autonomous revolution.

Modernity produces its own collapse. Resistance at weak points can collapse the system.

The Invisible Committee 2007 (France’s Premier Terrorist Organization, “The Coming Insurrection”. Semiotext(e) Intervention Series. pg. 60-62) nagel

It is precisely due to … in Southeast Asia."

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The modern energy system traps us into the belief of a false euphoric future while overlooking how this same system dooms us to ecological destruction, resource wars, democratic authoritarianism and extinction  

Byrne and Toly 6—*John Byrne, Director Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and Public Policy at Delaware and **Noah Toly, Research Associate Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Transforming Power eds. Byrne, Toly, and Glover p. 1-3

From climate change … conventional and sustainable energy futures.

The aff’s fantasy of control will only produce a “never-ending war” for security—blowback ensures efforts to create order out of disorder will fail.

Ritchie 11—Nick, PhD, Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies @ University of Bradford, Executive Committee of the British Pugwash Group and the Board of the Nuclear Information Service “Rethinking security: a critical analysis of the Strategic Defence and Security Review” International Affairs Volume 87, Issue 2, Article first published online: 17 MAR 2011

Third, the legitimating … security needs of British citizens.

Vote neg – must investigate epistemological underpinnings of energy production – alternative is a “growth at all costs” society that culminates in endless crises and oppression

Holleman 12 – Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon

(Hannah, “ENERGY JUSTICE AND FOUNDATIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIOLOGY OF ENERGY”, http:~/~/scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/jspui/bitstream/1794/12419/1/Holleman_oregon_0171A_10410.pdf)

All work on energy, … with the modern energy regime. 

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Text: Switzerland should offer to host the Gulf Cooperation Council’s multinational consortium to provide enriched uranium to states looking to build their own nuclear power program.  Switzerland should take measures to ensure Iran is invited.  Switzerland will provide all necessary assistance and funding to establish a functional fuel bank in exchange for: Iranian commitment to use enriched uranium only from the international nuclear fuel bank; to return spent fuel rods to the fuel bank after use; and to commit to suspend its own uranium enrichment program.

An international fuel bank would solve proliferation and close the NPT loophole

Joseph Cirincione, Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American Progress And Andrew Grotto, Senior National Security Analyst at the Center for American Progress, “Contain and Engage” Center for American Progress, March 2007, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/pdf/iran_report.pdf

The United States … Iran to forego uranium enrichment.

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Text: the United States federal government should offer to host the Gulf Cooperation Council’s multinational consortium to provide enriched uranium to states looking to build their own nuclear power program. 

Only an international fuel bank solves virtual proliferation – Countries will say yes

Harold Feiveson, Senior Research Policy Analyst, Program on Science and Global Security, “Can Future Nuclear Power Be Made Proliferation Resistant?”, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, July 2008, http://www.cissm.umd.edu/papers/files/future_nuclear_power.pdf

It is treacherous … reasonable degree of proliferation resistance. 

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The 50 states should create an interstate compact to approve pending applications to export natural gas.

Solves the aff

Craig, 2010

(Robin Kundis, Attorneys' Title Professor and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, Florida State University College of Law, University of Colorado Law Review, Summer, 2010, 81 U. Colo. L. Rev. 771; MULTISTATE DECISION MAKING FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND TRANSMISSION: SPOTLIGHT ON COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, UTAH, AND WYOMING: Constitutional Contours for the Design and Implementation of Multistate Renewable Energy Programs and Projects)MKD

While substantive and … their multistate renewable energy programs.

States can enter compacts to facilitate the production and transportation of natural gas along interstate lines – the Federal Trade Commission simply informs Congress of these actions

U.S. Code (no date). 15 USC 717j - State compacts for conservation, transportation, etc., of natural gas. http:~/~/www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/717jurl:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/717j /sal

(a) Assembly of pertinent … made available to the Commission.

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The United States federal government will dedicate all necessary funding to the development of a smart grid for electrical production in the US.

Upgrading the US to a smart grid ensures stable energy and prevents disruptions

Wittenberg 2011 (Scientific American, Sept. 11) http:~/~/www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cfm?id=recent-blackout-highlights-nations**

Many experts say … to building a smart grid. 

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The 50 states, territories and the District of Columbia should issue a revenue ruling establishing that locally-planned solar power production is a real estate investment trust qualified asset class

Federal government overriding the restrictions of states is an unethical subordination of local decision-making that makes hierarchy and abuse of power inevitable

Papworth 1 - Senior Editor @ Ecologist + Founder of Fourth World Review

John, Peace Through Social Empowerment, "Primary Causes," http://www.cesc.net/radicalweb/radicalconsultation/papworth/jp14.html

We need to … as an end in itself. 

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The United States federal judiciary, using the next available test case, should issue a narrow ruling that restrictions on the use of reprocessing technology to recycle spent nuclear fuel for commercial nuclear power in the United States is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced on the grounds that it infringes on state sovereignty.

The Supreme Court can remove environmental regulations -~-- solves the aff

Percival ‘97

Robert V. Percival ++ Professor of Law, Robert Stanton Scholar and Director, Environmental Law Program, University of Maryland School of Law.

The University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1997, 1997 U Chi Legal F 159

ARTICLE: Regulatory Evolution and the Future of Environmental Policy, Lexis, jj

These efforts are … public law sought to overcome.

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Text: The United States federal government should fully fund a program to cover 4.8% of the surface of the Earth’s oceans in a monolayer of 0.1 μm diameter latex particles, either hollow, or of core-shell morphology, bearing a conventional stabilization system that is inactivated in salt water.

Solves warming, only costs $2 billion, and avoids all solvency deficits associated with traditional ocean albedo modifications.

Morgan 11 – (10/8/11, John, PhD in physical chemistry, runs RandD programmes at a Sydney startup company, research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency, “Low intensity geoengineering – microbubbles and microspheres,” http:~/~/bravenewclimate.com/2011/10/08/low-intensity-geoengineering-microbubbles-and-microspheres/http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/10/08/low-intensity-geoengineering-microbubbles-and-microspheres/)

Is there another … microbubble concept, are also possible. 

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– faith in centralized role of the federal government to control solution-making reinscribes management and ensures policy failure. Turns the case — attempts to grapple with social problems will inevitably fail under centralization — scale is the vital internal link to successful solutions

Papworth 1 - Editor @ Ecologist + Founder of Fourth World Review

John, ""A PAIR OF CRANKS—Foreword," http://www.cesc.net/radicalweb/academicinn/london/papworth/pairofcranks.html

If the burden … any attempts to restrain them.

Centralization is the root of global crises — using this form of politics only contributes to the problem

Papworth 4 (John, Senior Editor @ Ecologist + Founder of Fourth World Review, "A New Start," Fourth World Review, http://www.cesc.net/radicalweb/fourthworld/adobe/online/fwr127.pdf)

We are confronted … splendours of self-realisation through service.

Centralized politics are fragmented and ineffective – localized approaches are the only way to avert catastrophe

Papworth 4 (John, Senior Editor @ Ecologist + Founder of Fourth World Review, "What Next?", Fourth World Review, http://www.cesc.net/radicalweb/fourthworld/adobe/print/fwrp126.pdf)

What form shall … may at last be realised.

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CIR will pass -~-- Obama’s PC is key

Steven Benen 2/6/13, MSNBC-the Maddow Blog, http:~/~/maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/06/16868677-com/_news/2013/02/06/16868677-defining-the-extremes-in-the-immigration-debate, jj

At the surface… issue once and for all."

Conflicting priorities means nuclear costs PC -~-- the debate is stalemated now

Bryce ‘10

Robert Bryce, has been writing about energy for nearly two decades. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to The Guardian, and The Nation to The American Conservative. He is the author of Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, and Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America’s Superstate. Bryce is a fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, as well as the managing editor of Energy Tribune and a contributing writer for The Texas Observer.

“Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future” pg 269-270, jj

The answers are … carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.5

(Insert Case Specific Link)

CIR solves the deficit

Tucker 10 Cynthia is a columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We need immigrants to help pay the deficit,” Nov 19, http:~/~/blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/11/19/we-need-immigrants-to-help-pay-the-deficit/http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/11/19/we-need-immigrants-to-help-pay-the-deficit/

Recommendations for taming … to the federal tax rolls?

Deficit reduction key to prevent economic collapse, abrupt retrenchment and great power war

Khalilzad 11 — Zalmay Khalilzad, the one and only, 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. National Review Online, 2-8, The Economy and National Security, http:~/~/www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad?pg=3url:http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad?pg=3, jj

Today, economic and … dangerous era of multi-polarity.

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US won’t cave to South Korea on reprocessing now

Yonhap, 3-8-2012, “U.S. unlikely to allow S. Korea to reprocess nuclear fuel,” http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2012/03/08/23/0301000000AEN20120308007100315F.HTML

The United States … power plants, the diplomat said.

Failure to maintain a hardline on domestic reprocessing shatters the norm against ENR and makes credible US diplomatic pressure impossible – ensures South Korean ENR

Scott Sagan, poly sci prof @ Stanford, co-chair Global Nuclear Future Initiative, 4-18-2011, “The International Security Implications of U.S. Domestic Nuclear Power Decisions,” http://cybercemetery.unt.edu/archive/brc/20120621005012/http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/sagan_brc_paper_final.pdf

A similar phenomenon … spend fuel for commercial purposes. 21

South Korean ENR causes South Korean prolif and undermines US nonprolif efforts with Iran, North Korea, and Southeast Asia

Zachary Keck 12, Assistant Editor of The Diplomat, “Rough Waters? The State of the ROK-U.S. Alliance,” The Diplomat, 8-22-12, http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2012/08/22/rough-waters-the-state-of-the-rok-u-s-alliance/

Washington’s concerns over … its forces in the region.

New Asian prolif ensures widespread nuclear conflict -~-- asymmetries

Lyon 9 (December, Program Director, Strategy and International, with Australian Strategic Policy Institute, previously a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Queensland, “A delicate issue, Asia’s nuclear future”)

Deterrence relationships in … vulnerability of their arsenals.

Extinction

Hayes 10 Peter Hayes, *Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, AND, Michael Hamel-Green, ** Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development act Victoria University (1/5/10, Executive Dean at Victoria, “The Path Not Taken, the Way Still Open: Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia,” http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/10001HayesHamalGreen.pdf

But the catastrophe within …consideration from the international community. 

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US nuclear leadership causes prolif of civilian nuclear tech -~-- spurs arms race

Fuhrmann, ’9 

~Matthew, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, Summer, "Spreading Temptation: Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation," International Security Vol. 34, No. 1. MIT Press Journals~

This article examines … program onset and weapons acquisition.

Nuclear power plants encourage a virtual arms race – leads to nuclear war

Joseph Cirincione, Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American Progress, and Andrew Grotto, Senior National Security Analysts at the Center for American Progress, “Contain and Engage”, CAP, March 2007, http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2007/02/pdf/iran_report.pdf

Regardless of how … a recipe for nuclear war. 

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A. Little Alternative Energy Now - a shift would outstrip supply of rare minerals used in clean energy

Findley 2010 (David Findley, 2010. “Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy” (staff scientist at the Energy Analysis Program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Post Carbon Institute.)

Because alternative energy …of industries using the metals.

B. Rare earth key to nuclear reactors and plants

Trigaux 2012 (David, “The US, China, and Rare Earth Metals: The future of green technology, military tech, and a potential Achilles’ heel to American hegemony”. University of South Florida St. Petersburg. http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10806/4632/David%20Trigaux)

Erbium (Er) is a …the scarcity of the mineral.

C. China will spark a trade war by cutting off rare earth – empirically proven

Trigaux 2012 (David, “The US, China, and Rare Earth Metals: The future of green technology, military tech, and a potential Achilles’ heel to American hegemony”. University of South Florida St. Petersburg. http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10806/4632/David%20Trigaux)

Such optimism is … striving to join the sector.176

D. It'd be WWIII- every other scenario is ahistoric

ICFI 2010 (October 2, “The rising danger of a US-China Trade War” (International Conference on the Fourth International)

These arguments are … World War II in 1939.

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Transition to renewables coming now

Bowen ‘12

Currently a businessman, Robert Bowen served in the Colorado legislature in the 1980s as a moderate Democrat. He was also appointed by three different governors to serve on various boards and commissions. He has followed political news, national news headlines and international news closely for almost five decades.

8-22-12, Examiner, US carbon emissions are declining due to clean energy http:~/~/www.examiner.com/article/com/article/us-carbon-emissions-are-declining-due-to-clean-energy, jj

US carbon emissions are declining due to clean energy

A new report … results in our air quality.

Nuclear dries up renewable investment

Charman, 6 – Karen, environmental journalist and managing editor at the Capitalism Nature Socialism journal (“Brave Nuclear World?/Commentary: Nuclear revival? Don’t bet on it!”, July/august, Vol. 19, pg. 12, Proquest)

Governments and markets  … Economics and Climate-Protection Potential."

Continued investment key to renewable energy

Kauffman ‘12

Richard Kauffman, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, 8-9-12, Seizing a Clean Energy Opportunity http:~/~/www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-kauffman/a-clean-energy-opportunity_b_1761543.html?utm_hp_ref=html?utm_hp_ref=green, jj

Over the past … world in this critical sector.

Green energy key to prevent extinction

Jagger ‘08 (Bianca, Chair, World Future Council, CQ Congressional Testimony, "RENEWABLE ENERGY," 3/6, lexis) 

“If we go … climate change and global inequality.