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States CP

Text: The fifty state governments and the District of Columbia should establish an energy policy modeled off Ohio.

This solves – we have a solvency advocate for using the Ohio model.

 
Gov. John Kasich, Columbus Dispatch, June 10th 2012, http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2012/06/10/ohio-picking-up-slack-in-energy-policy.html

Ohio’s agriculture and manufacturing sectors are highly productive and among our state’s largest employers.
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jobs-friendly climate we need to get our state back on track.

Pollution DA

US air quality is improving now but pollution is on the brink

Mitka 2012 (Mike Mitka, April 25, 2012, “US Air Quality Improves, But Polluted Air Still Threatens Millions,” JAMA, http://newsatjama.jama.com/2012/04/25/us-air-quality-improves-but-polluted-air-still-threatens-millions/)
Air quality has improved significantly since 2001, the association found. Compared with 2001
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and year-round levels of particle pollution—are at unsafe levels.

Fracking produces massive air pollution

Sturgis 2012 (Sue Sturgis, March 27, 2012, “Fracking's air pollution threat,” Institute for Southern Studies, http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/03/frackings-air-pollution-threat.html)
But a growing body of science also raises concerns about fracking's public-health impacts
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last month, the timeline was extended to allow for more public comment.

Extinction

Driesen 2003 (David Driesen, Associate Professor at Syracuse University Law, 10 Buffalo Environmental Law Journal, Fall/Spring, Lexis)
Air pollution can make life unsustainable by harming the ecosystem upon which all life depends
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health and the environment, air quality implicates both of these concerns. 5

Obama Good

Obama winning – swing states

Jackson 9-14
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005
9-14-12, Poll: Obama leads in Ohio, Fla., Va. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/09/14/obama-leads-in-ohio-florida-virginia/70000332/1?csp=34news, jj

States elect presidents via the Electoral College, and new polls give President Obama the
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," Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

B) Link --- plan drives a wedge into Obama’s base --- they’re key to re-election

Mick ‘10
Jason Mick, 6-19-10, Daily Tech, Obama Fights For Nuclear, Environmentalists Label Him a Shill http://www.dailytech.com/Obama+Fights+For+Nuclear+Environmentalists+Label+Him+a+Shill/article18781.htm, jj

Despite these small victories, President Obama's nuclear vision faces many impending obstacles. Despite
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is among the many factors that will already make President Obama's presidency noteworthy. 

Obama’s margin for error is small --- plan deflates democrat enthusiasm

TNF ‘12
1-3, The New Fuelist, Obama’s tall environmental task in 2012 http://www.newfuelist.com/blog/obama-coal-regulations-keystone-pipeline, jj

In case you can’t see it, that’s a treacherous tightrope Barack Obama is walking
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while simultaneously ensuring that his frustrated environmentalist supporters don’t completely lose their patience.

C) Impact – Republicans will destroy the economy

Dorner 1-2-12 (Josh, is the Communications Director for the
of science in European politics and governance from the London School of Economics.
Think Progress, REPORT: The Republican Candidates’ Economic Agenda For The 1 Percent
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/02/395363/gop-economic-agenda-for-the-one-percent/, jj)

Each and every Republican candidate has called for trillions of dollars in new tax breaks
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only embrace this failed economic agenda, they would take it even further.

The impact is great power wars

Mead, ’09 [Walter Russell, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, New Republic, February 4, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8andp=2]

So far, such half-hearted experiments not only have failed to work;
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the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight.

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Heg Good

First —- discussions of US energy policy should prioritize national security as a starting point —- the role of the ballot is to affirm this agenda.

Wirth, Gray, %26 Podesta 2003 Timothy E. Wirth is President of the United Nations Foundation and a former U.S. Senator from Colorado. C. Boyden Gray is a partner at Wilmer, Cutler %26 Pickering and served as Counsel to former President George H.W. Bush, The Future of Energy Policy, Foreign Affairs, July-August, pp. LN, KEL

Energy is fundamental to U.S. domestic prosperity and national security. In
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challenges and the interests that can be mobilized for the necessary political change.

This approach to energy policy is necessary to preserve US global leadership

Klarevas ’09
(Louis, Professor, Center for Global Affairs, New York University "Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony," pg online @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html)
As national leaders from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, to
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best approach for achieving this is to promote a national strategy of greengemony.

Second, the aff’s reliance on abstract theorization is incompatible with our starting point —- philosophical approaches to this year’s resolution are insufficient to produce a coherent reaction to global events

Whitington ’12
Jerome Whitington, Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Visiting Scholar
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. Writer of "Accounting for Atmosphere: The Anthropology of Climate Change"
Accounting for Atmosphere: The Anthropology of Climate Change is a project with the objective of building collaborative project appropriate to the challenge of understanding something as complex as climate change. Rather, the objective is to approach climate change with enough specificity that precise empirical statements can be linked with the broad significance of climate change’s global scope and geo-historical timescales.
5-27-12, Critical Theory Climate Blah Blah http://accountingforatmosphere.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/critical-theory-climate-blah-blah/-http://accountingforatmosphere.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/critical-theory-climate-blah-blah/, jj

Over the past several weeks I’ve become motivated to closely examine critical theory approaches to
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Enterprise Emergency: Steps toward an ecology of powers’ (TCS, 2009).

Next the impacts:

We control macro uniqueness. Statistics prove hegemony is decreasing violence

Owen 11 John M. Owen Professor of Politics at University of Virginia PhD from Harvard "DON’T DISCOUNT HEGEMONY" Feb 11 org/2011/02/11/john-owen/dont-discount-hegemony/ 

Andrew Mack and his colleagues at the Human Security Report Project are to be congratulated
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in part by the emergence of the United States as the global hegemon. 

Hegemony turns environmental concerns outlined in the 1ac

Ashok Khosla 9, IUCN President, International Union for Conservation of Nature, A new President for the United States: We have a dream, 1-29-09, http://cms.iucn.org/news_events/?uNewsID=2595

A rejuvenated America, with a renewed purpose, commitment and energy to make its
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of pollutants from our wasteful industries, construction, agriculture and transport systems.

Decline causes extinction

Nye 91 (Joseph, Bound to Lead, p.17)

Perceptions of change in the relative power of nations are of critical importance to understanding
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50,000 nuclear weapons, history as we know it may end.

That comes first

Robin Attfield, Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, "The Ethics of the Global Environment", Perdue University Press, 1999, pg 68

Nevertheless, as John Leslie has remarked, many philosophers write as if there were
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does not mandate extinction, unlike several of the theories which stand opposed to

OBAMA BAD

Romney win —- newest polls, Obama’s low approval rating, and enthusiasm

Chambers 9-13
Dean, Arlington Conservative Examiner, Washington Examiner, Mitt Romney possible landslide indicated by polling data released today http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-possible-landslide-indicated-by-polling-data-released-today-http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-possible-landslide-indicated-by-polling-data-released-today, jj

The latest Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll released today shows Mitt Romney back in
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" factor about the race among Republican voters than that of Democratic voters.

B) Link —- Plan swings blue collar voters to Obama —- they’re key to the election

Mead ’12
Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, 6-6, the American Interest, Green Politics Hurting Obama in Swing States http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/06/06/green-politics-hurting-obama-in-swing-states/-http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/06/06/green-politics-hurting-obama-in-swing-states/, jj

Since the beginning of the recession, America’s "brown jobs" revolution has been
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of this issue. It may come back to bite him come November.

C) Impact —- Obama pushes defense cuts that collapse heg —- Romney solves

Boot ’11
Max Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is completing a history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism. This article is adapted from testimony he delivered to the House Armed Services Committee on September 13, 2011.
Commentary Magazine, January 12, Slashing America’s Defense: A Suicidal Trajectory  http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/slashing-americas-defense-a-suicidal-trajectory/-http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/slashing-americas-defense-a-suicidal-trajectory/, jj

The United States’ armed forces have been the greatest force for good the world has
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and of American power in general, could depend greatly on the outcome.

Heg solves extinction

Barnett, Professor, Warfare Analysis and Research Dept – U.S. Naval War College, 3/7/’11
(Thomas, "The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," )

Let me be more blunt: As the guardian of globalization, the U.
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a profound and persistent reduction in battle deaths from state-based conflicts.

A2 Tax

Taxes don’t violate rights

John Christman, Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Spring 1986, p.165.
Also, as Kearl has pointed out, persons who gain entitlements through embedded labor
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is from the increased efficiencies of the market mechanism, not increased labor.

Illegitimate resource acquisition justifies redistribution

Will Kymlicka, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 1990, p 109.
Because most initial acquisition was in fact illegitimate, Nozick’s theory cannot protect existing holdings
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people’s claim to equal consideration, then Nozick’s right of transfer never starts.

Redistribution is not slavery

Will Kymlicka, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, 1990, p. 122-3.
Finally, Nozick might argue that welfare redistribution denies people’s dignity, and this dignity
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serve to promote, rather than attack, people’s sense of equal dignity.

Extinction outweighs

Murray Rothbard, libertarian, Dean of Austrian School, Head of Mises Institute, FOR A NEW LIBERTY: THE LIBERTARIAN MANIFESTO, 1973, p. http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp~%23p263-http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp. accessed 4/20/06.
Many libertarians are uncomfortable with foreign policy matters and prefer to spend their energies either
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capitalism, liberalism, or libertarianism—would be of no importance whatsoever.

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COURTS

The United States federal judiciary, using the next available test case, should issue a narrow ruling that Domestic weapons should be converted to the domestic solar and wind power production 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 %26 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 being undertaken at a time when the federal judiciary has become less
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resurrecting the very deficiencies of the commonlaw that public law sought to overcome.

OBAMA BAD

Romney win —- newest polls, Obama’s low approval rating, and enthusiasm

Chambers 9-13
Dean, Arlington Conservative Examiner, Washington Examiner, Mitt Romney possible landslide indicated by polling data released today http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-possible-landslide-indicated-by-polling-data-released-today-http://www.examiner.com/article/mitt-romney-possible-landslide-indicated-by-polling-data-released-today, jj

The latest Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll released today shows Mitt Romney back in
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" factor about the race among Republican voters than that of Democratic voters.

B) Link —- Plan swings blue collar voters to Obama —- they’re key to the election

Mead ’12
Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, 6-6, the American Interest, Green Politics Hurting Obama in Swing States http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/06/06/green-politics-hurting-obama-in-swing-states/-http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/06/06/green-politics-hurting-obama-in-swing-states/, jj

Since the beginning of the recession, America’s "brown jobs" revolution has been
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of this issue. It may come back to bite him come November.

B) Link—- The Aff leads to a drop in Investment. Renewables are nearing a point where they can compete without subsidies —- investment drop in the short term wrecks

Frankfurt School ’12
Frankfurt School, UNEP Collaborating Center, GLOBAL TRENDS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT 2012
http://fs-unep-centre.org/sites/default/files/publications/globaltrendsreport2012final.pdf-http://fs-unep-centre.org/sites/default/files/publications/globaltrendsreport2012final.pdf, jj

With PV solar and onshore wind equipment prices falling rapidly, there is a "
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climate change, and for those working in the emerging "green economy".

C) Impact —- Obama pushes defense cuts that collapse heg —- Romney solves

Boot ’11
Max Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is completing a history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism. This article is adapted from testimony he delivered to the House Armed Services Committee on September 13, 2011.
Commentary Magazine, January 12, Slashing America’s Defense: A Suicidal Trajectory  http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/slashing-americas-defense-a-suicidal-trajectory/-http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/slashing-americas-defense-a-suicidal-trajectory/, jj

The United States’ armed forces have been the greatest force for good the world has
AND
and of American power in general, could depend greatly on the outcome.

Heg solves extinction

Barnett, Professor, Warfare Analysis and Research Dept – U.S. Naval War College, 3/7/’11
(Thomas, "The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," )

Let me be more blunt: As the guardian of globalization, the U.
AND
a profound and persistent reduction in battle deaths from state-based conflicts.

RENEWABLES

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

A new report that studied 2,500 electrical power plants owned by 100 utilities
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the trend to clean energy that is showing results in our air quality.

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=green-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-kauffman/a-clean-energy-opportunity_b_1761543.html?utm_hp_ref=green, jj

Over the past four years, we have seen tremendous progress in the development and
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country, we can once again lead the 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 beyond the point where human intervention can no longer stabilise the
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social development, and addresses the threats of climate change and global inequality.

Heg Good

First —- discussions of US energy policy should prioritize national security as a starting point —- the role of the ballot is to affirm this agenda

Wirth, Gray, %26 Podesta 2003 Timothy E. Wirth is President of the United Nations Foundation and a former U.S. Senator from Colorado. C. Boyden Gray is a partner at Wilmer, Cutler %26 Pickering and served as Counsel to former President George H.W. Bush, The Future of Energy Policy, Foreign Affairs, July-August, pp. LN, KEL

Energy is fundamental to U.S. domestic prosperity and national security. In
AND
challenges and the interests that can be mobilized for the necessary political change.

This approach to energy policy is necessary to preserve US global leadership

Klarevas ’09
(Louis, Professor, Center for Global Affairs, New York University "Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony," pg online @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html)
As national leaders from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, to
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best approach for achieving this is to promote a national strategy of greengemony.

Second, the aff’s reliance on abstract theorization is incompatible with our starting point —- philosophical approaches to this year’s resolution are insufficient to produce a coherent reaction to global events

Whitington ’12
Jerome Whitington, Ph.D. in Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Visiting Scholar
AND
. Writer of "Accounting for Atmosphere: The Anthropology of Climate Change"
Accounting for Atmosphere: The Anthropology of Climate Change is a project with the objective of building collaborative project appropriate to the challenge of understanding something as complex as climate change. Rather, the objective is to approach climate change with enough specificity that precise empirical statements can be linked with the broad significance of climate change’s global scope and geo-historical timescales.
5-27-12, Critical Theory Climate Blah Blah http://accountingforatmosphere.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/critical-theory-climate-blah-blah/-http://accountingforatmosphere.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/critical-theory-climate-blah-blah/, jj

Over the past several weeks I’ve become motivated to closely examine critical theory approaches to
AND
Enterprise Emergency: Steps toward an ecology of powers’ (TCS, 2009).

Hegemony turns environmental concerns outlined in the 1ac

Ashok Khosla 9, IUCN President, International Union for Conservation of Nature, A new President for the United States: We have a dream, 1-29-09, http://cms.iucn.org/news_events/?uNewsID=2595

A rejuvenated America, with a renewed purpose, commitment and energy to make its
AND
of pollutants from our wasteful industries, construction, agriculture and transport systems.

Decline causes extinction

Nye 91 (Joseph, Bound to Lead, p.17)

Perceptions of change in the relative power of nations are of critical importance to understanding
AND
50,000 nuclear weapons, history as we know it may end.