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multistate energy program preemption
That solves. Robin Kundis Craig 10 (USC Gould School of Law. “Constitutional Contours for the Design and Implementation of Multistate Renewable Energy Programs and Projects” 9/17/10 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1482611)//conway a compact for a multistate energy program existence could shield a ...
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Saudi oil increase
More ev. Lucente 24 [Adam Lucente reports for the Al-Monitor. "What's behind Saudi Arabia's increase in crude oil prices for Asian market?", Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012, https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/05/whats-behind-saudi-arabias-increase-crude-oil-prices-asian-...
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no stranded assets
No chance of stranded assets. Banks have sufficient buffers to cushion losses. Skinner 21, Assistant Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, J.D. from Yale Law School (Christina Parajon Skinner, 2021, “Central Banks and Climate Change,” Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 74, No. 5, University of Ka...
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States prohibited from treaties
Only federal action solves. Nicholas Bianco et al. 20. Program Director at Sequoia Climate Foundation. **Franz Litz, JD in Environmental Law from Boston College. **Devashree Saha, Ph.D in public policy from UT Austin. **Tyler Clevenger, Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Transportation. **Dan Lashof, ...
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carbon tax fixed price
The plan causes a production shift---the combination of a carbon tax AND fixed-price shifts aggregate productivity AND LFPRs upward, avoiding all negative effects. Metcalf ’23 [Gilbert and Alan Shapiro; February; economics professor at Tufts University, Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University; associate economics p...
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litigation not effective political maneuver
Litigation before the courts is not an effective political maneuver, but their capacity to frame it as such reveals a counterinsurgent thread that runs through their imagination of the aff and research project. 1AC Fornasari 24, recut to say what the author ACTUALLY meant! [Riccardo Fornasari, temporary teaching and r...
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CME Group FedWatch tool
[KU = Green] Interest rate derivative traders are now pricing in a 62% chance of a quarter point cut in December, down from a 72% chance on Thursday, according to CME Group's FedWatch tool. retail sales data was stronger than expected speeches by Fed officials show growing concern that disinflation is hitting a wall
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environmental problems catalysts for coop
Climate wars are debunked by large-N datasets---cooperation’s more likely Warner 23, PhD, Associate Professor of Crisis and Disaster Studies at Wageningen University and Research. (Jeroen Frank, 10-5-2023, “Rethinking the link between climate and violent conflict over water,” International Development Planning Review,...
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America will remain the world's sole superpower
China is no threat. Beckley 18 Michael Beckley, International Relations Professor at Tufts University, PhD at Columbia. [Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower, an addition to the series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt, Cornell Un...
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Jevons paradox
Jevon’s paradox is wrong. Harford 24 – Master’s in Economics. Columnist for the Financial Times and author of four books. Owen view Jevons paradox as inescapable Yet the environment is certain to come out ahead there are few more environmentally damaging ways to spend a thousand dollars than to burn gas money could b...
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Warming nukes the economy
Warming – nukes the economy Metcalf 19 [Gilbert E. Metcalf is a professor of economics at Tufts University who specializes in climate economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. January 10, 2019. “Paying for Pollution: Why a Carbon Tax is Good for America” Oxford University Press...
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urgencies of now
Especially true even if you accept their theory of power Tutton 22 [Richard Tutton is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and co-editor of Genetic Databases: Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA. "The Sociology of Futurelessness." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/003...
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nuclear war societal collapse
Nuclear war. Prefer empirical and statistical evidence. Richards & Allwood ’21 — C.E.; Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge; R.C. Lupton is with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath. J.M.; Department of Engineering, Unive...
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Capitalism causes climate change and fascism
Capitalist cycles of reproduction are causing climate change and widespread fascism which turns the K---only the alt grants the power for revolution. Escalante ’19 [Alyson; September 8; M.A. in Philosophy from The University of Oregon. Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist Activist.; Failing Tha...
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Global justice catastrophic risk
US financing is key to global catastrophic risk mitigation—otherwise extinction. Jones '23 [Natalie Jones PhD, Policy Advisor, Sustainable Energy Supply, International Institute for Sustainable Development; Affiliated Researcher, Stockholm Environment Institute. "Beyond 'Error and Terror': Global Justice and Global Ca...
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Subsidy repeal unlimits
Subsidy repeal unlimits. Osaka 21, reporter @ Grist. (Shannon, 1-28-2021, "Biden is canceling fossil fuel subsidies. But he can't end them all.," Grist, https://grist.org/politics/biden-is-eliminating-fossil-fuel-subsidies-but-he-cant-end-them-all/) not everyone agrees on what counts as a fossil subsidy and what does...
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US influences climate policy abroad
There’s momentum now. Border-adjusteded tax compels follow through. Bistline 24 approach reliant on subsidies has received mixed response tensions unlikely to disappear CBAM drive change in other countries U.S. influences climate policy abroad through credibility in negotiations and reducing costs of low-carbon tech
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environment health tech failures
That triggers World War III, collapses containment of nuclear and technological risks, AND turns the environment. Oppenheimer ’21 [Michael; 2021; Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Virginia; The Future of Global Affairs, “The...
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carbon tax cost
Neg ground. Checks aff shiftiness, preserving disads and deficits. Christina Maza 15. Staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor. "Everyone's favorite climate change fix", Oct 29 www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy/2015/1029/Everyone-s-favorite-climate-change-fix. a tax on carbon tell producers to reduce emissi...
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Tuinen 2024
2 - Triggers ressentiment – the cessation of life-affirmation. Through passively nihilistic views of life, it forces hostility for its own sustenance. Tuinen 24 - Sjoerd van Tuinen 2024 (Sjoerd van Tuinen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Driven by affinities across the arts and hum...
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Maavak 21
That goes nuclear. Maavak ’21 [Mathew; 2021; Ph.D. in Risk Foresight from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, External Researcher (PLATBIDAFO) at the Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Expert and Regular Commentator on Risk-Related Geostrategic Issues at the Russian International Affairs Council; Salus Journal – The A...
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digital tools increase efficiency
Cap sustainable---profit motive drives tech innovation and makes resources infinite---only way to solve environmental collapse and extinction. McAfee 19—cofounder and codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, former professor at Harvard Business School and fellow at...
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Trump will reshape central bank
1. Trump will wage a war against Fed independence. Partisan appointments of loyalists will inevitably undermine perception of neutrality. Jordan Weissmann Former Lead Economics Writer for Slate & Washington Editor @ Semafor ’24 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/donald-trump-federal-reserve-independ...
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Supreme court EPA authority
4. Potential court strikes decimate future solvency, past cases prove Mark Sherman 24, associated press and graduate from Princeton and UC Irvine Law, “Supreme Court halts enforcement of EPA’s plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants” PBS, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-halts-enforcement...
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nuclear r and d slow
Gen 4 reactors are unicorns Levitan 16 (Dave, journalist focusing on science, health, and the environment, has written for Scientific American, Discover, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, undergraduate degree from Haverford College, and a Master’s degree in journalism from NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reportin...
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Marlo Lewis carbon tax
2] Taxes Turn – increasing taxes on carbon devastates the US economy at every level Lewis ‘21 [Marlo Lewis Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Claremont McKenna College, “Why Carbon Taxes Are Anti-Growth, Anti-Consumer, and Politically Dangerous for ...
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carbon tax lowers asset value
The plan IS the abrupt shock their evidence references. Carattini 21, every author of this paper has a PhD and is a professor or assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University. (*Stefano, **Garth Heutel, and ***Givi Melkadze, “Climate Policy, Financial Frictions, and Transition Risk,” N...
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superintelligence socioeconomic context
Growth-oriented AI ensures extinction---but degrowth solves Pueyo ’18 [Salvador; October 1; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona; Journal of Cleaner Production, “Growth, Degrowth, and the Challenge of Artificial Superintelligence,” vol. 197, pp. 1731–1736] ...
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tax havens
Tax havens prove offshoring. Asmin, Howell 16 – Ash Asmin, Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK, Phillip Howell, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, 2016, “Releasing the Commons," Routledge Studies in Human Geography, https:...
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grammar governs law
Grammar is the superseding principle of law---it’s the strongest internal link to predictability. Scalia ’12 [Antonin; Supreme Court Justice; Brian Garner; Legal Scholar and Lexicographer; 2012; Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legislative Texts; https://jm919846758.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rlilt.pdf...
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Luke Lango
Labor markets are solved by rate cuts Lango '9-13 [Luke; Editor, Hypergrowth Investing, Senior Investment Analyst, Investor Place; "Why the Fed Will Soon Inspire a Powerful Market Rally," https://investorplace.com/hypergrowthinvesting/2024/09/why-the-fed-will-soon-inspire-a-powerful-market-rally/] frail report spooke...
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voters don't watch tax policy
POLICY is irrelevant for swing voters. Israel 9-9, former Representative from New York and former Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (Steve Israel, September 9, 2024, “Will the presidential debate matter? Probably not.” The Hill, https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4867732-will-the-presidenti...
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Congress immigration power
Trump is focused on immigration now, but Congress holds the key Payne, 1-20 – POLITICO Fellow president unlock authorities and resources to follow through on secure the border and deport millions Trump may run into trouble is his mass deportations agenda and he’ll be looking to Congress for help. Lawmakers will have ...
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45Q tax credit
The 45Q tax credit incentivizes consumption of fossil fuels---the counterplan amends it to increase benefits per unit-removed---that sufficiently spurs growth. Apillanes and Penalosa 23 [Sierra Apillanes Sustainability Law Student Research Fellow, Program on Law and Sustainability, Arizona State University Sandra Day ...
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AI exacerbates electricity resources
The data centers driving the AI revolution obtain nearly 75% of their energy from carbon-based sources. Tremayne-Pengelly 24 (Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly covers general news and the business of arts and culture for the Observer. She is a graduate of McGill University and the Columbia School of Journalism; “A.I. Data C...
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US allies wage wars aggression
No internal link or impact to authoritarian export, their logic relies on a false conflation between competition with China and reviving a declining LIO – this logic only projects Western insecurity and produces conflict Jake Werner 23, Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute focused on the emergence of great power co...
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powers of the federal government
That means the plan must enumerate its actor as one of the three branches. Matheson ’21 [Scott Milne; December 8; Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; Lexis, “United States v. Muhtorov, 2021” 36170] Constitution divide the powers of the f g into three defined categories , legislative , e...
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Ioana Marinescu carbon tax
The campaign effect outweighs positive polling. Ioana Marinescu 20. Associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Interview with Andy Stone. "Why Americans Want a Carbon Tax, But Won’t Support One at the P...
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only aff is T
3) Fidelity: Only we have evidence intending to define and exclude in the context of energy policy. That’s distinct from climate policy AND proves only our aff is T. Cătuți 22 – Ph.D. Candidate, University of York. energy policy refers to production distribution and consumption of energy climate policy covers regula...
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Texas drought
So do droughts. Arbaje 23 – Energy analyst in the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. when plants don’t have water due to drought they can’t operate Texas drought led to gas units offline for a year
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low carbon economy lending
Warming. Investors won’t be able to or want to finance the green transition due to unfavorable lending policies. Emilio Campiglio 14. Post-Doctoral Researcher at the LSE Grantham Research Institute, PhD from the University of Pavia. “Beyond carbon pricing: The role of banking and monetary policy in financing the trans...
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Greg Forter
Melancholia produces conservative attachment to absolute authority. Greg FORTER English Language and Literature @ South Carolina ‘3 “Against Melancholia: Contemporary Mourning Theory, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and the Politics of Unfinished Grief” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14 (2) p. 142-...
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China recession
China’s officially in a recession. Yardeni 11-11, *President of Yardeni Research, Inc; **analyst at the NY Fed. (*Ed, **Eric Wallerstein, 11-11-2024, “China: A Deflating Dragon,” Yardeni: QuickTakes, https://www.yardeniquicktakes.com/china-a-deflating-dragon/) The recession was in China huge negative wealth effect of...
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CSIS carbon border adjustment mechanism
Plank 2 solves alignment with a carrot instead of a stick. Any deficit applies to the affirmative because of accounting differences. Reinsch et. al 23, [Emily Benson is a senior fellow with the Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Josep...
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regulatory policy compliance mechanisms
Tarrying with the infinite is the only pathway to minimizing emissions---any other regulatory policy allows too flexible compliance mechanisms. Bouchery et. al. 11. [Yann Bouchery is Associate Professor in Operations Management and a member of the Center of Excellence in Supply Chain at KEDGE Business School. Asma GHA...
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thinking like an economist
The AFF’s economic style of reasoning ensures serial policy failure. Berman 22 – Elizabeth Popp Berman, Director and Richard H. Price Professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Michigan, Thinking Like An Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, pgs. 5-10) assumptions starts wit...
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private financing valley of death
LCERC solves the aff, avoids the net benefit and picking winners Isabel Galiana 12, Professor of Economics at McGill University; Christopher Green, Professor of Economics, School of Environment, McGill University; and Jeremy Leonard, research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, July 2012, “A Techn...
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CFTC carbon credit regulation
3---the legal possibility of non-uniformity ensures residual uncertainty---markets want CFTC McQuhae 23 [Ben McQuhae, industry leading commercial lawyer in sustainable finance and environmental markets, Hong Kong representative of the United Nations Financial Centres for Sustainability network, more than 25 years of l...
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compensating state local governments
It's the assets themselves that are exempt. Border taxes can’t solve. CRS 12, written by a legislative attorney who is a specialist in natural resource policy (Congressional Research Service, 2012, “Compensating State and Local Governments for the Tax-Exempt Status of Federal Lands: What Is Fair and Consistent?” CRS, ...
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Empirical Tests of the Green Paradox
Novel & reverse causal data proves. Norman & Schlenker ’24 – Ray A. Goldberg Professor of the Global Food System Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (Maya Norman & Wolfram Schlenker; “Empirical...
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innovation from carbon pricing
1. INNOVATION. Carbon pricing incentivizes green technology across the board. Lim '23 [Sijeong, Aseem Prakash; July 24; Professor, International Studies, Korea University; Professor, Political Science, University of Washington; The Regulatory Review; “The Innovation-Inducing Effects of Carbon Pricing,” https://www.the...
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Federal leadership necessary
Only federal action solves. Nicholas Bianco et al. 20. Program Director at Sequoia Climate Foundation. **Franz Litz, JD in Environmental Law from Boston College. **Devashree Saha, Ph.D in public policy from UT Austin. **Tyler Clevenger, Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Transportation. **Dan Lashof, ...
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Julie Nelson 06
Relational approaches fail – alienates potential allies and assumes non-market communities wouldn’t oppress. Julie NELSON Global Development and Environment @ Tufts ‘6 Economics for Humans p. 37-40 these views assume self-interest exclusive to market Families very small also characterized by domination and violence...
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regional energy governance
Topic specific solvency advocacy checks – proves they exclude core topic research and predictable neg ground – that’s the 1NC solvency ev – heres more Wiseman and Osofsky 16 [Hannah J. Wiseman** and Hari M. Osofsky* ** Attorneys' Title Professor, Florida State University College of Law. J.D., Yale Law School, A.B., Da...
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Trump opposes subsidies and efficiency rules
Trump turns warming even assuming the AFF. Samantha Gross & Louison Sall 24. Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings, **Senior Research Assistant – Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Energy Security and Climate Initiative. "Trump has big plans for climate and ener...
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reparations colonialism slavery
That’s compatible with tax-and-transfer schemes to redistribute wealth to remedy poverty and inequality. Budolfson 21 – Associate Professor of Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Ph.D. from Princeton. regulated capitalism is consistent with large-scale redistribution If ...
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Adopt means create a rule
‘Adopt’ means to create an official, final rule. Ervin 20 – Sam J, a North Carolina lawyer and jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2015 to 2022. He previously served as a state Utilities Commissioner and as a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. “Cabarrus County Board of Education v. De...
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shift from carbon
Decarbonization requires reducing emissions of all kinds Doleski et al. 22 [Oliver D. Doleski, studied economics at the University of Munich; Thomas Kaiser; Michael Metzger; Stefan Niessen; and Sebastian Thiem; "Decarbonization as a Strategic Issue," 1-17-2022, SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/9...
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joshua dicaglio
CRITICAL RIGOR. Scalar specification ensures that critical debates generate new forms of life instead of self-righteous skeptics. Turns case. DiCaglio, 21—Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University (Joshua, “Mapping the Vast Unknowing: The Science of Scale, the Scale of Science,” Scale Theory: A Nondisciplin...
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grids weak spots
4. Surface area increases. Kearney 24 – U.S. Energy Reporter at Reuters. M.A. in Journalism, business and economic concentration, Columbia University. U.S. grids are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks with the number of susceptible points increasing by 60 per day The grids' weak spots susceptible to cyber crimin...
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Mihnea Catuti
Framer’s intent & intent to exclude. It’s the difference between ‘energy policy’ and ‘climate policy’. Mihnea Cătuți 22. Doctoral candidate at the University of York. “The Governance of EU Energy and Climate Policy in the New Intergovernmentalism Era: Lessons from the Clean Energy for all Europeans Package.” June 2022...
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True even if you accept
Especially true even if you accept their theory of power Tutton 22 [Richard Tutton is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and co-editor of Genetic Databases: Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA. "The Sociology of Futurelessness." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/003...
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CARLA statute climate liability
The plan, analogous to CERCLA, key to successful climate litigation and recovery. Moffa 22 [Anthony Moffa, Associate Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law. B.S.E., Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, J.D., Yale Law School. “From Comprehensive Liability To Climate Liability: The Case For A C...
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courts may adopt policy
Courts may adopt public policy in the absence of legislative action Keller 18 – Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court, former Judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Chairwoman Emeritus of the Kentucky Personnel Board. J.D. from Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law. when organs of public policy are si...
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Bistline 24
There’s momentum now. Border-adjusteded tax compels follow through. Bistline 24 approach reliant on subsidies has received mixed response tensions unlikely to disappear CBAM drive change in other countries U.S. influences climate policy abroad through credibility in negotiations and reducing costs of low-carbon tech
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Resolved refers to policies
“Resolved” refers to policies. Words and Phrases ’64 [Permanent Edition, an English Language Dictionary] Definition of “resolve,” is “to express determination by resolution or vote ; as ‘it was resolved by the legislature ;” similar to “enact,” which is “to establish by law ”
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Fed renewable energy
Here’s the concrete actions the Fed has taken against climate you’ve asked for… Green Central Banking ’22 [“The Fed has been criticised for its relatively slow progress on addressing climate risk, but is gradually moving into line with the mainstream of G20 central banks.,” Green Central Banking, https://greencentralb...
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Harris no policy details
The debate reinforced that she has no policy platform beyond Trump bad. Coster and Reid 9/11. Helen Coster (U.S. Presidential Election Correspondent at Reuters, Princeton University graduate) and Tim Reid, 9/11/2024, “Some undecided voters not convinced by Harris after debate with Trump,” Reuters, https://www.reuters....
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Memorialization redraw illusionary oppositions
Discourses fueled by memorialization redraw illusionary oppositions Day 21 (Iyko Day, PhD, Professor and Chair of English, and Interim Chair of the Department of Critical Race and Political Economy at Mount Holyoke College. Ruin Porn and the Colonial Imaginary, 27 January 2021, PMLA, Theories and Methodologies, Vol. 1...
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water and climate change
Their evidence concedes that climate change is the root cause. Peter Gleick 21, MacArthur Fellow, Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Hydroclimatologist, B.S. from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, “Water Recommendation for the New Administration”, Bulletin o...
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islamic tradition inferior
These practices are not neutral – they are part of a process of Islamophobia in which the Islamic tradition is positioned as inferior and violent while Western epistemologies are represented as “truth”. Tamdgidi, M. (2015). ISLAM : From phobia to understanding. (Vol. VIII). Ahead Publishing House . Non-Western episte...
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Affect comes first bad
Affect should not come prior---there’s no scientific basis for it and it understates material action Emily Martin 13—Professor in the Department of Anthropology at New York University, October 2013, “The Potentiality of Ethnography and the Limits of Affect Theory,” Current Anthropology, Volume 54, Supplement 7, Access...
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Settler colonialism narrative deficit
Settler Colonialism has a narrative deficit – ontological frames make indigenous liberation impossible by setting terms of victory as all-or-nothing – reifies acquiescence to subtler settler power Busbridge 18—Research Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University (Rachel, “Israel-Palestine and the Settler Co...
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China reluctant to SRM
China won’t inevitably deploy geoengineering. Young 23, Researcher at the University of Leeds (Danielle N. Young, 2023, “Considering stratospheric aerosol injections beyond an environmental frame: The intelligible ‘emergency’ techno-fix and preemptive security,” European Journal of International Security, Vol. 8, pp. ...
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Endogenous Emission Caps Always
The AFF causes a green paradox. Reyer Gerlagh 20. Department of Economics, Tilburg University, the Netherlands and Oslo Centre for Research on Environmental friendly Energy (CREE) , Roweno J.R.K. Heijmans Department of Economics, Tilburg University, the Netherlands , Knut Einar Rosendahl §School of Economics and Busin...
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OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Meltdowns are psuedo-science! OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) 21 [“NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THE CIRCULAR CARBON ECONOMY (CCE): A REPORT TO THE G20,” NEA No. 7567, OECD, https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-09/7567_nuclear_energy_in_the_circular_carbon_economy_cce_-_a_report_to_the_g20.pdf, Bittner] dom...
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Nation states mine uranium
Their overfocus on flashpoints of violence and the fear of a Trump nuclear war ignores that nuclear colonialism is foundational to the nation state Cornum 18 (Lou Cornum, diasporic two-spirit Navajo Diné, PhD candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center, senior editor of The New Inquiry, member of the editorial collec...
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geohaptics cultivation of new relations
It’s called geohaptics, a cultivation of new relations among the earth and it’s inhabitants. By thinking through touch rather than logic, the binary categories such as human/nonhuman cease to make sense. They are replaced with a new kind of freedom to think and be in the world whose benefits cannot be measured. This ex...
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reproducing colonial discourse
The fictive imaginaries surrounding human extinction at play in these representations are carefully designed to influence the beliefs of policy-makers and citizens alike, reproducing the colonial discourse of “whiteness under siege”. Mitchell and Chaudhury 2020 (Audra Mitchell and Aadita Chaudhury “Worlding beyond ‘th...
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SBW schema destroys bodies and spirits
The StrongBlackWoman operates as a justifying rhetoric and grammar used to shame and coerce Black women into operating as Captive Maternals, we sustain the world social order as captive maternals and our bodies and spirits are destroyed. If the environment doesn’t kill us first the SBW schema will!!!! Chanequa Walker-...
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US states climate leadership
State climate action solves, sends a credible signal, won’t be preempted, and causes federal follow-on. Dr. Henrik Selin & Stacy D. VanDeveer 20, PhD, MA, Professor, International Relations, School of Global Studies, Boston University; PhD, MA, Professor, Global Governance & Human Security, Professor of Global Governa...
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aviation fuel strategic benefits
5. AIRCRAFT RANGE. Alman ’22 [David; October 25; Officer and pilot in the Air National Guard, B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering; War on the Rocks, "Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Investing in the Future," https://warontherocks.com/2022/10/sustainable-aviation-fuel-investing-in-the-future/] in the 30s 100 octane prov...
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declining powers use retrenchment
B. Decline maintains deterrence while preventing aggression. MacDonald and Parent 18 - Paul MacDonald is Associate Professor in Political Science at Wellesley College. Joseph M. Parent is an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. declining powers use retrenchment to shuffle resourc...
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damages are like a carbon tax
D. Liability. They are “like a tax.” Zasloff 8 – PhD @ Harvard, Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate, UCLA School of Law (Jonathan, “THE JUDICIAL CARBON TAX: RECONSTRUCTING PUBLIC NUISANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE,” UCLA Law Review, 55) damages presents us with a relatively...
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Pal et al 23
US Critical infrastructure is interdependent – failures in coastal communities snowball to cascading failures Pal et al ‘23 [Indrajit, Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand, Anil Kumar, and Anirban Mukhopadhyay, “Risks to Coastal Critical Infrastructure ...
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Harris '24 triggers emissions policy
Harris ’24 triggers---emissions policy too unpopular in Texas Reinl 7-25. James Reinl, July 25 2024. DailyMail “How a Kamala win would 'fuel' this key Red state's bid to break away from America” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13672279/Kamala-election-state-secede-America-Texas.html Accessed7.25.2024///mosuQ ...
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far-right to repeal green deal
It'll be repealed by the right-wing wave in the EU parliament. Anchal Vohra 24, Brussels-based columnist at Foreign Policy, former TV correspondent for Al Jazeera English and Deutsche Welle, "A Far-Right Takeover of Europe Is Underway: EU parliamentary elections are approaching and populists are planning a frontal ass...
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China Russia war goes nuclear
That goes nuclear. Saradzhyan 10 (Simon Saradzhyan, Director, Russia Matters Projec @ the Belfer Center, 5-4-2010, "The Role of China in Russia’s Military Thinking," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/role-china-russias-military-thinking, accessed 2-17-2024) ...
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Hackers target solar farms
Renewables magnifies cyber risks. Walton 24, [Robert Walton is a Senior Reporter at Utility Dive. “Renewable energy, microgrids face growing cyber threats: FBI” https://www.utilitydive.com/news/fbi-cyber-threat-renewable-generation-microgrids-dragos/720509/]//sripad F B I warned expansion of renewable capacity incre...
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Biden Harris admin
8---And he’ll explicitly tie Harris to it. Peter Lucas 24. Columnist at the Boston Herald. "Lucas: Kamala Harris’ biggest problem is being tied to Biden." Boston Herald. 8-19-2024. https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/08/19/lucas-kamala-harris-biggest-problem-is-being-tied-to-biden/ Harris’ problem tied to Biden’s econo...
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Capitalism solves climate crisis
A carbon tax is a prerequisite to the alternative. Only capitalism, not moralizing, can solve the climate crisis. Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman 15. **Austro-American climate economist at Columbia Business School, where he is a tenured full professor, holds an AB and a PhD in political economy and government from ...
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nuclear existential ethical challenge
Anticipating extinction breeds empathy and entangled care. Distancing ourselves from considering extinction reifies detached elitism. Offord, 17—Faculty of Humanities, School of Humanities Research and Graduate Studies, Bentley Campus (Baden, “BEYOND OUR NUCLEAR ENTANGLEMENT,” Angelaki, 22:3, 17-25) [ableist language ...
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Carbon Tax Center 2020
Carbon Tax would incentivize biofuel usage. Carbon Taxes Center 20 4-8-2020 “Should a Carbon Tax Apply to Bioenergy?”, https://www.carbontax.org/issues/should-a-carbon-tax-apply-to-bioenergy/ --- ECM a carbon tax would encourage production of bioenergy to the extent it reduces emissions deployed in their absence
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Jason Ma 24
Trump 2.0 guarantees rate hikes---sticky inflation, tax cuts, tariffs and immigration Jason Ma, 24. Markets, economy, finance @ Fortune, previously Business Insider and Dow Jones Newswire. “There’s now a 40% chance the Fed will pivot back to hiking rates again next year, top economist says.” Fortune. 12-21-2024. https...
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Vinjamuri 24
Trump devastates US-China relations – also takes out advantage 2 Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://...
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Mercer and Stallard 25
3. Trump restores OSD inevitably. SCOTUS will rule for him. David Mercer and Esme Stallard 25. “Biden bans offshore drilling across vast area of US.” BBC. Jan. 6, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg6dg30vq0o. Trump will challenge Biden's move A final decision could be made by the Supreme Court which has a maj...
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tech advancements farmers
Food systems are adapting to climate change Morrison ‘23 [Rose Morrison holds a degree in Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and is the Managing Editor of Renovated, “11 Ways Farmers Are Adapting to the Unpredictability of Climate Change,” 10-26-23, https://eart...
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Oxford dictionary definition
3. “Resolved” means certain. Oxford 19, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, “resolved”, http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/resolved Firmly determined
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Jenkins 23
2. Non-Western spirituality survived and is threaded through normative visions of ‘humanity’ in the climate crisis, allowing our interpretation to solve the debates they think necessary. Jenkins 23, Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia (Willis Je...
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IRA and BIL funnel billions
A---LINK UNIQUENESS. Biden’s already dumped cash on renewables and set stringent regulations. Corbyn 24, freelance journalist. (Zoe, 8 April 2024, “Boom times for US green energy as federal cash flows in,” BBC, https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68667140) <<Pictures Omitted>> the IRA, along with the BIL funnel billio...