Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 2 | Opponent: USC DP | Judge: Glinecki
Elections
States CP
Heidegger K
Spending
CCS DA

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Elections
1NC Gas
Dems wont retake the hosue
John Stanton, analyst for BuzzFeed politics, 9-10-2012, "Nancy Pelosi Wants You To Believe That Democrats Can Retake The House", http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/nancy-pelosi-wants-you-to-believe-that-democrats-c
Her hype runs counter both to the prevailing wisdom and to the usual expectations-
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end up adding a handful of Democratic seats to his already sizable majority.
Romney uses gas restrictions as an attack strategy – Obama spins the plan to defuse Romney’s attack – massively boosts Obama’s popularity.  
Steve Levine, contributing editor at Foreign Policy and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, 6-13-2012, "How dirty is Romney prepared to get to win election?" http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/12/how_dirty_is_romney_prepared_to_get_to_win_election
Romney grants that Obama is not precisely Mr. Clean — while the president has
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is a lot of daylight between Obama and Romney," Sides told me.
1NC Heg Impact
Obama’s success swings congressional races to the dems – kills sequestration compromise
Albert Hunt, staff writer, 5-6-2012, "Congressional Elections Will Define Next Presidency," Bloomberg, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-06/congressional-elections-will-define-next-presidency.html
The U.S. faces a potential fiscal train wreck at the end of
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means that a Democratic takeover of the House remains "uphill but doable."
Compromise key to avoiding massive military cuts – destroys heg
Robert Samuelson, writes a weekly economics column, Harvard Graduate, 3-4-2012, "Budget sequestration would be a dagger to defense," Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/budget-sequestrationwould-be-a-dagger-to-defense/2012/03/02/gIQArPfWrR_story.html
It turns out that "budget sequestration," portrayed as an evenhanded way to spur
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clearly hasn’t worked, makes this outcome more, not less, likely.
Global war
Robert Kagan, senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings, 3-15-2012, "America has made the world freer, safer and wealthier," CNN World, http://us.cnn.com/2012/03/14/opinion/kagan-world-america-made/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Finally, what about the long peace that has held among the great powers for
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what the world looked like right before the American order came into being.

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1NC CCS DA
Coal will remain competitive – that’s key to a shift to CCS
Lindsay Morris, staff writer, 8-15-2012, "Coal to Remain Viable, says EPA’s McCarthy at COAL-GEN Keynote," Power Engineering, http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2012/08/coal-to-remain-viable-says-epas-mccarthy-at-coal-gen-keynote.html
"Coal will continue to provide more of America’s electricity than any other fuel source
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investment for new technologies," McCarthy said. "CCS is technologically viable."
CCS expansion is a top US priority – future expansion in natural gas drives away key government support
Greenwire, 5-2-2012, "CLIMATE: Market woes, reduced government support create global hurdles for CCS," by Manuel Quinones, E%26E Reporter, lexisnexis
CCS is the top research priority within the U.S. government’s clean coal
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all-time low," Forbes said. "That influences the discussion.
US development spills over – US is a key leader
Allen Wampler, former assistance secretary of the US DOE, 7-11-2008, "Coal Power: Stress efficient carbon capture-and-storage," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.nma.org/pdf/members/outreach/111308_ajc_oped.pdf
As global leader in energy technology, America needs to come up with a practical
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countries like China and India that rely on coal to power their economies.
Clean coal solves Chinese air pollution and growth
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), September 2008, "Climate Change: China Innovating in the Clean Coal Technology Market," by Sarah Jessup, http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2008/05/article_0006.html
China is regarded as one of the world’s leading emitters of greenhouse gas (GHG
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clean coal solutions. Its scientists are already making strides in that direction.
Nuke War
Herbert Yee, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Ian Storey, Lecturer in Defence Studies at Deakin University, 2002, "The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality," RoutledgeCurzon, 5.
The forth factor contributing to the perception of a China threat is the fear of
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disintegrating China would also pose a threat to its neighbours and the world. 

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1NC States CP
The fifty states of the United States should establish or expand existing Clean Energy Funds, coordinate clean energy funding with public infrastructure finance agencies, remove barriers to multi-state pooling arrangements for clean energy projects, support harmonized multi-jurisdictional clean energy projects, reorient tax policy toward a progressive income tax system, close corporate tax loopholes, and should incentivize
Avoids controversy and solves.
Lewis Milford, attorney, founder and president of the Clean Energy Group, and Mark Muro, co-director of Brookings Mountain West, Senior fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, 1-12-2012, " Funding Growth: State Clean Energy Funds Can Help Invent the Future," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-milford/funding-growth-state-clea_b_1201670.html
These are tough times for the dream of clean energy and green jobs. Washington
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funds’ transition from project development to industry creation should be nurtured and supported.

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1NC Heidegger K
The affs attempts at management conceals alternate modes of being and reduces beings to the stranding reserve
Ladelle McWhorter, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, 1992, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 6
The danger of a managerial approach to the world lies not, then, in
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which we have not yet dreamed, directions of which we may never dream
Outweighs nuclear war
Zimmerman 94 Michael: Professor of Philosophy at Tulane. Contesting the Earth’s Future, p.104.
Heidegger asserted that human self-assertion, combined with the eclipse of being,
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species are somehow lessened because they were never "disclosed" by humanity.
Do nothing – continued quick fix solutions are part of the problem – our alt shatters that logic
Ladelle McWhorter, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, 1992, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 2
Thinking today must concern itself with the earth. Wherever we turn -on newsstands
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of the power configurations of current thinking that must be allowed to dissipate.

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1NC CR DA – Spending
A non-controversial CR will pass now but new stuff can be added
Gary Truitt, staff writer, 9-11-2012, "Farm Bill Extension Not Part of Continuing Resolution," Hoosier Ag Today, http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/index.php/2012/09/11/farm-bill-extension-not-part-of-continuing-resolution/
Republican leaders in the House say they have met the promise of a ’clean’
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If they do that – additional action would be required by the House.
Plan causes fiscal conservative freak-out
Dan Morgan, former Washington Post reporter and editor, is an independent journalist specializing in agriculture and energy issues, February 2012, "Despite Gloom, Renewables are not doomed in US," The European Institute, http://www.europeaninstitute.org/EA-February-2012/despite-gloom-renewables-are-not-doomed-in-us.html
These market-driven developments tell a different story from the political hoopla attached to
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production of ethanol, and they have slashed other federal subsidies as well.
Tanks the compromise – causes shutdown
Erik Wasson, staff writer, 7-31-2012, "Reid, Boehner announce deal to avoid government shutdown," The Hill, http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/241277-leaders-expected-to-announce-spending-bill-agreement
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker John Boehner (
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it doesn’t have a whole lot of other monkey business tied to it."
Gov shutdown allows cyber attacks
Eric Chabrow, Executive Director of Gov Info and Security, 4-7-2011, "Feds Face Infosec Challenges in Shutdown," http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=3512
A government shutdown would not only cause a reduction in available staff, there would
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and choose the targets with much less security behind them," said Tipton.
Extinction
Richard Adhikari, staff writer, 12-2-2009, "Civilization’s High Stakes Cyber-Struggle: Q%26A With Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.)," Tech News World, http://www.technewsworld.com/story/68787.html
The conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan, to name the most prominent,
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the stakes are: continued economic vitality and, ultimately, global civilization.

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Restrictions on production must mandate a decrease in the quantity produced
Anell 1989
Chairman, WTO panel
 "To examine, in the light of the relevant GATT provisions, the matter referred to the
CONTRACTING PARTIES by the United States in document L/6445 and to make such
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PARTIES on 5 December 1989 (L/6568 - 36S/68)
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/88icecrm.pdf
The United States argued that Canada had failed to demonstrate that it effectively restricted domestic
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to what the situation would be in the absence of all government measures.
Restrictions are statutory – must be codified in law
Gerald Hill, practiced law for more than four decades, Executive Director of the California Governor’s Housing Commission, drafted legislation, taught at Golden Gate University Law School, and Kathleen Hill, writer, publisher and newspaper columnist, who graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and has an M.A. in political psychology from California State University.  She was also a Fellow in Public Affairs with the prestigious Coro Foundation, No Date, “restriction,” The Free Dictionary, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/restriction
restriction n. any limitation on activity, by statute, regulation or contract provision. In multi-unit real estate developments, condominium and cooperative housing projects, managed by homeowners' associations or similar organizations are usually required by state law to impose restrictions on use. Thus, the restrictions are part of the "covenants, conditions and restrictions," intended to enhance the use of common facilities and property, recorded and incorporated into the title of each owner.
Violation – the plan doesn’t reduce a restriction on the production of wind

Vote Neg:
Limits –
Doub 1976 Energy Regulation: A Quagmire for Energy Policy Annual Review of Energy Vol. 1: 715-725 (Volume publication date November 1976) DOI: 10.1146/annurev.eg.01.110176.003435LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae, 1757 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 http://0-www.annualreviews.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.eg.01.110176.003435
 Mr. Doub is a principal in the law firm of Doub and Muntzing
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. He was born September 3, 1931, in Cumberland, Md.
FERS began with the recognition that federal energy policy must result from concerted efforts in
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agencies. Unfortunately, this example is the rule rather than the exception.
Precision: Only direct prohibition is a restriction – key to predictability
Sinha 6
http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/437310/
 Supreme Court of India Union Of India and Ors vs M/S.
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No. 17558 of 2006  S.B. SINHA, J :  
 We may, however, notice that this Court in State of U.P. and Others v. M/s. Hindustan Aluminium Corpn. and others AIR 1979 SC 1459 stated the law thus:
"It appears that a distinction between regulation and restriction or prohibition has always been
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the word prohibiting or some such word, to bring out that effect."
It promotes multidirectionality, destroying topic coherence
McKie 84
 Professor James W. McKie, distinguished member of the economics department at The University of Texas at Austin for many years
McKie, J W
Annual Review of Environment and Resource , Volume 9 (1)
Annual Reviews – Nov 1, 1984
 THE MULTIPLE PURPOSES OF ENERGY REGULATION AND PROMOTION Federal energy policy since World War
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if not obscure, and the results have often been confusing or disappointing.   
Indepedently – there’s no increase in wind production – that’s a voter
Rogers, New York Judge, 2005 (Judge, STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, RESPONDENT, NSR MANUFACTURERS ROUNDTABLE, ET AL., INTERVENORS, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 12378, ; 60 ERC (BNA) 1791, 6/24, lexis)
 48  Statutory Interpretation. HN16While the CAA defines a "modification"
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car five or ten years ago when the engine was in perfect condition.

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Compromise coming to avoid fiscal cliff – top of the docket and Obama’s PC is key
Nancy Benac, staff writer, 11-8-2012, “Election over, showdown now looms on 'fiscal cliff',” Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_21956940/election-over-showdown-now-looms-fiscal-cliff
Taking little time to celebrate, President Barack Obama is setting out to leverage his
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we think to the critical mass needed legislatively to get tax reform done." 

Successful Obama honeymoon is make or break for the economy
Rick Newman, chief business correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, 10-26-2012, “The Fiscal Cliff Masks an Improving Economy,” http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/rick-newman/2012/10/26/the-fiscal-cliff-masks-an-improving-economy
If President Barack Obama wins a second term, he may enjoy the kind of
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," Baumohl says, "then the employment outlook should continue to brighten."
Extinction
Kemp 10
Geoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs at The Nixon Center, served in the White House under Ronald Reagan, special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Former Director, Middle East Arms Control Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2010, The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia’s Growing Presence in the Middle East, p. 233-4
The second scenario, called Mayhem and Chaos, is the opposite of the first
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expected, with dire consequences for two-thirds of the planet’s population.

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The United States federal government should establish a Quadrennial Energy Review. In the Quadrennial Energy Review, the United States federal government should include a recommendation to limit the review of foreign investment in wind power by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to cases in which national security, not economic competition is a factor.
Recommending plan mandates through a QER process solves—only the CP creates policy sustainability and private sector coordination that unlocks energy innovation  
Ernest Moniz, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems and Director of the Energy Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Former Clinton Administration Under Secretary of the Department of Energy and as Associate Director for Science in, Spring 2012, “Stimulating Energy Technology Innovation,” Daedalus, Vol. 141, No. 2, Pages 81-93
It should come as no surprise that I do not have the answers for how
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government-wide actions that earn decent buy-in from major stakeholders.
Note: PCAST = President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Tournament: Shirley | Round:  | Opponent: KSU/Houston BJ | Judge:
Tariff doesn’t cause trade war
Keith Bradsher and Matthew Wald, staff writers, 3-20-2012, "A Measured Rebuttal to China Over Solar Panels," http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/business/energy-environment/us-to-place-tariffs-on-chinese-solar-panels.html?pagewanted=all
Whatever political spin proponents or critics might want to put on the tariff decision,
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.” And it will not set off a trade war, he predicted.
They only solve one symptom of the trade war – we have other renewable tariffs on China
Bill DiBenedetto, president of Lampin Corp. of Uxbridge, an engineering and manufacturing firm; graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 8-2-2012, "Tower Tariffs: The Winds of a Trade War with China?" http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/08/wind-tower-tarrifs/
Renewable energy trade conflicts with China are heating up and blowing strong. The latest
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also illustrates just how important renewables are becoming on the world trade stage.
AT: Trade Wars
Trade disputes don’t escalate – solidified international norms
Daniel Ikenson, director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, 3-5-2012, http://www.cato.org/publications/free-trade-bulletin/trade-policy-priority-one-averting-uschina-trade-war
An emerging narrative in 2012 is that a proliferation of protectionist, treaty-violating
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that suggests that the kerfuffle is containable and the recent trend reversible.1
Alt causes outweigh and prove trade is empirically denied
Chris Zappone, staff writer, January 2012, “'Murky protectionism' on the rise - but no trade war,” Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/murky-protectionism-on-the-rise~-~-but-no-trade-war-20120110-1pt3t.html
At the outset of the global financial crisis, the world’s leaders pledged to resist
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fellow Joshua Meltzer. “But I don’t think we’re on that track.”
No US-China war – expert consensus
Ali Wyne, researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2-23-2012, “The future of the US-China relationship” http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/the-future-of-the-u-s-china-relationship/
The good news is that while strategic tension between them is inevitable, a military conflict is not.  The RAND Corporation recently explored six flashpoints that could trigger one, but concluded that war was not “probable in any of the cases” over the next 30 years.  Meanwhile, a new survey of 1,600 U.S. international-relations scholars assigns U.S.-China war a 23% probability over that same window—appreciable, but low.
No US-China war – economic ties check and both sides realize that the cost is too high
Harry Harding, Founding Dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, Vice Chairman of the Asia Foundation, and Senior Fellow in the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York, 6-1-2011, “Are China and the U.S. on a collision course?” http://thinkingaboutasia.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-china-and-us-on-collision-course.html
Fortunately, an essentially confrontational relationship is also unlikely, especially if one is primarily
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risk that China would try to compel unification through the use of force.
(  )  No wars from econ collapse.
Morris Miller, Winter 2000, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, “Poverty as a cause of wars?” V. 25, Iss. 4, p pq
The question may be reformulated. Do wars spring from a popular reaction to a
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by increasing repression (thereby using one form of violence to abort another). 

Disputes are inevitable, but they don’t escalate
James Bacchus, a former member of Congress and a former chairman of the appellate body of the World Trade Organization. He chairs the global practice of the Greenberg Traurig law firm.Bacchus delivered a version of this piece as testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on 6-9-2010 in Washington, D.C. ¶ Diverting A U.S.-China Trade War, Diverting A U.S.-China Trade War¶ ames Bacchus, 06.28.10, 12:10 AM EDT Disputes are inevitable, but conflict is not, http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/28/china-united-states-exports-law-wto-markets-economy-trade_2.html
Chinese exports are surging. American politicians are complaining. This is not an easy
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disputes between the United States and China are inevitable. Conflict is not.
AT: Coop
The Hunkovic evidence is about inevitable Taiwan conflict – they can’t solve that
Relations are resilient and cooperation solves their impacts – even in downswings
China Times, 9-8-2012, “Clinton’s China trip betrays lack of mutual trust” http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120908000078andcid=1701andMainCatID=17
Beijing's undisclosed strategies and authoritarian approach to policymaking have raised Washington's concerns about China's rise
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-US trust rather than to collude with Southeast Asian states against China.
Relations are fundamentally resilient – strategic cooperation outweighs
Jeffrey A. Bader, visiting scholar at the China Center at Brookings, 5-6-2011, “U.S.-China Senior Dialogue: Maintaining the Balance”, http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0506_strategic_economic_dialogue_bader.aspx
The SandED comes at a time when U.S.-China relations
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Middle East, will be on the agenda of the SandED.

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Warming doesn’t cause extinction – its gradual, humans adapt, and technology solves problems before they occur
Matt Ridley, British scientist, 8-17-2012, “Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times,” Wired, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/ff_apocalypsenot/all/
So, should we worry or not about the warming climate? It is far
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arise, not through the mass fear stoked by worst-case scenarios.
They don’t have a card that says renewables can solve for the fossil fuel economy, just that individual projects are low-carbon
No articulation of what the US and China cooperate about
CO2 expansion key to solve food shortages
Idso et. al. 11—Former Professor in the Departments of Geology, Geography, and Botany and Microbiology @ Arizona State and PhD from UMinnesota and former research physicist for the Department of Agriculture—AND Keith Idso, PhD in Botany—AND Craig, PhD in Geography (Sherwood, “Is There a Need for a More Sustainable Agriculture?” Vol. 14, Iss. 24, 15 June 2011, http://co2science.org/articles/V14/N24/EDIT.php
In a paper that came to our attention a couple weeks ago, Gomiero et
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, and all should have a say in what to do about it.
Cutting coal ends aerosols – aerosols solve climate change.
Jim Robbins, staff writer, 11-16-2011, “2 Views of Aerosols and Climate Change,” NYT, http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/good-cop-bad-cop-2-views-of-aerosol-and-climate-change/
In a reflection of the complexity of atmospheric science, however, a different new
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allow carbon dioxide to be taken up more readily on land and oceans.”
Outweighs their link to warming
Skeptical Science, 6-2-2012, “Modelling the Apocalypse,” http://www.skepticalscience.com/modelling-the-apocalypse.html
Let’s all put on our science-fiction hats and imagine that humans get wiped
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This might easily be enough for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse.

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Zero ev the plan causes a mindset shift in govt
Massive alt-causes their ev makes – domestic fear, racism
U.S. attempts to diminish security dilemma with China fail – Taiwan
Johnathan Holslag, Research Fund Flanders fellow at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, July 2009, “Embracing Chinese Global Security Ambitions,” The Washington Quarterly, 32:3
The United States has recognized that cooperation is the best solution. In December of
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just implies that deterrence becomes symbolically less sensitive, though just as effective.
Reps focus hinders policy understanding overlooking questions of agency and material structures.
Gearoid Tuathail, Department of Georgraphy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1996, Political Geography, 15(6-7), p. 664, science direct
While theoretical debates at academic conferences  are important to academics, the discourse and concerns
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needs to always be open to the patterned mess that is  human history.
War causes extinction, not colonialism
Douglas Bulloch, IR Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, May 2008, Millennium - Journal of International Studies May 2008 vol. 36 no. 3 575-595
 He is currently completing his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics, during which time he spent a year editing Millennium: Journal of International Studies
 But the idea that poverty and peace are directly related presupposes that wealth inequalities
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problems as fundamentally economic rather than deeply – and potentially radically – political.
This colonialism ev is garbage anyway – empirically disproven
The plan maintains national security framework – still links to the Pan args
Value to life can’t be measured externally – we must preserve life to give people autonomy
L. Shwartz “A Value to Life: Who Decides and How?” Medical ethics: a case-based approach 2002 www.fleshandbones.com/readingroom/pdf/399.pdf)
Those who choose to reason on this basis hope that if the quality of a
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need to know which considerations can be used to protect the patient’s interests.
Evaluating direct consequences is key to ethics
Jeffrey Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University, Bloomington, Spring 2002, Dissent, vol. 49, no. 2
As writers such as Niccolo Machiavelli, Max Weber, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah
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choices. But it should never be mistaken for a serious political commitment.