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Energy policy is embedded in a mode of technological thinking which reduces nature to a ‘standing reserve’ of resources always at hand for human consumption.  This perspective ignores the intrinsic meaning of nature and instead replaces it with the desire for unlimited control and domination of the natural world.  
Xuanmeng 3( Yu, “Heidegger on Technology, Alienation and Destiny,” The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture Chinese Philosophical Studies, XI, Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series II, Asia, Vol 11, http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/III-11/contents.htm)
First, "The revealing that rules in modern technology is a challenging (Herausfordern
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with "what modern technology is," but with a process or phenomenon.

Treating nature as a standing reserve ontologically conditions the way in which it reveals it self to us. Viewing the world always creates blindspots which makes ecological collapse and nuclear war inevitable.
McWhorter, Prof of Philosophy and Women, Gender and Sexuality studies @ Univ. of Richmond, 92
(Ladelle, “Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection” Heidegger and the Earth, pg. 4-5)
What is most illustrative is often also what is most common. Today, on
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is forgotten, and all traces of absence absent themselves from our world.

Thus the alt: the judge should vote negative to do nothing in reaction to the call of the affirmative.
Doing nothing de-activates managerial thinking by removing a clear pragmatic end for thought – this re-thinking of thinking produces a more reflective relationship to the earth that allows it to disclose itself based upon everyday materiality
McWhorter ‘92
Prof of Philosophy and Women, Gender and Sexuality studies @ Univ. of Richmond
(Ladelle, “Guilt as Management Technology: A Call to Heideggerian Reflection” Heidegger and the Earth, pg. 1-4)

Heidegger calls us to give thought to — or give ourselves over to thought of
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also ground the most basic patterns of our current ways of being human.

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Text: The 50 states an all relevant territories should...

The Federal Government needs to step back on Energy Policy and leave it to the states. They know better. Fred Upton April 2012.
“Rethinking America’s Energy Policy” Rep. Fred Upton is chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. April 10, 2012. http://www.american.com/archive/2012/march/rethinking-americas-energy-policy Date Accessed September 21, 12.  

It is an exciting time for American energy, but only if American energy policy
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ever imagined. Misguided Washington interference is the biggest threat to these gains.

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Convention bounce is gone – Obama holds a tiny lead
Silver 9-19
[Nate, Sept. 18: Obama’s Bounce Erodes in Two Tracking Polls
, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/sept-18-obamas-bounce-erodes-in-two-tracking-polls/]

President Obama has been on the decline in the FiveThirtyEight forecast. On Tuesday,
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since the spring, they represent highly important data series in this process.
Obama is walking an energy tightrope, plan ignites controversy – splitting the base and losing independent voters, causes the election
Schnur ‘12
[director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California; he served as the national communications director of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000. (Dan, April 9, "The President, Gas Prices and the Pipeline" http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/the-president-gas-prices-and-the-keystone-pipeline/-http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/the-president-gas-prices-and-the-keystone-pipeline/]

Like every president seeking re-election, Barack Obama walks the fine line every
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-election but also prioritizes the job-creation potential of the pipeline.
Romney will strike Iran
Daily Kos 12 [Daily Kos; “President Obama versus Romney on Iran”; 4/16/2012; http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/16/1083726/-President-Obama-versus-Romney-on-Iran]
Approach to foreign policy: Romney says he will “not apologize” for America
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, without bragging, and scaring the American people with needless terrorism alerts.
Intervention in Iran goes nuclear
Reuters 5-17
[“Russia says action on Syria, Iran may go nuclear” May 17, 2012 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/us-g8-russia-idUSBRE84G18M20120517]

Hasty military operations in foreign states usually bring radicals to power," Medvedev, president
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such as Israel, Pakistan and India could get involved into a conflict.

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Text: The United States Department of Defense should increase procurement contracts for small modular “nuke” reactors in the United States.

The term “nuke” is preferable to “nuclear” because it deconstructs the nuclearist impulses surrounding the term.
William Chaloupka.  [book] Knowing Nukes The Politics and Culture of the Atom. 1992 (pp.xv-xvi) 

A short note on terms is in order. I will use "nuclearism"
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playfully, or even deconstructively short) for nuclear technology of all sorts. 

This linguistic rejection is a critical starting point to breakdown nuclearism
William Chaloupka.  [book] Knowing Nukes The Politics and Culture of the Atom. 1992  (pp.93-94)
Once we notice the crisis of representation and its first consequence—the demise of
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its form exactly at the point where old models of language break down.

Rhetorical criticism of nuclearist policies is essential to prevent nuclear suicide
William Chaloupka.  [book] Knowing Nukes The Politics and Culture of the Atom. 1992  (pp.63-64)
MacCannell argues that one could interpret contemporary culture as thoroughly infused with an unprecedented death
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zombies—mortified schizos, good for work, brought back to reason.

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The supply of rare earth minerals is tight now – expanding wind/solar production causes a short-term shortage – that turns hegemony, the economy, global warming and short circuits the affs ability to solve
UNEP, January 2011, (United Nations Environment Program Global Environmental Alert Service), "Green economy vulnerable to rare earth minerals shortage?" http://na.unep.net/geas/getUNEPPageWithArticleIDScript.php?article_id=55
Rare earth elements (REE) include the 17 elements on the periodic table of
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in helping create jobs, promoting economic growth, and fighting climate change.

REM supply shock will trigger trade wars – treated as an energy security issue
Layy O'Hanlon, 10/2/10, Discovery News, "rare earth metals may trigger trade wars," http://news.discovery.com/earth/rare-earth-metals-trade-wars.html
There is a long list of elements, mostly rare metals, that are currently
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and if they are not mined domestically, there are energy security issues.

Trade wars escalate and go nuclear
Miller and Elwood 88 (Vincent, Founder and President of the International Society for Individual Liberty, and James, Vice-President, “Free trade or protectionism? The Case Against Trade Restrictions,” http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/free-trade-protectionism.html)
When Goods Don't Cross Borders, Armies Often Do History is not lacking in examples
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? Can we afford to allow this to happen in the nuclear age?