Tournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bingham NW | Judge: Upadhyayula, Nischay
Plan: The United States Federal Government should increase renewable energy integration with the United Mexican States.
Contention One is Carbon Dioxide
Scenario 1 is Warming
Warming Happening Fast
Perkins, 2012
(Sid, 3-25-12, Science Magazine, “Earth Warming Faster Than Expected,” http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/03/earth-warming-faster-than-expected.html, accessed 7-15-13, EB)
By 2050, global average ... also reduce it.
It’s still reversible, but a tipping point exists
Lemonick, taught science and environmental journalism at Princeton, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins, 2012
(Michael D., 8-4-12, Climate Central, “Study Shows Planet Keeping Pace With CO2 Emissions,” http://www.climatecentral.org/news/new-study-shows-planet-keeping-pace-with-co2-emissions, accessed 7-15-13, EB)
Climate change is a serious ... emissions before that.”
This decade is key
Chestney, 2012
(Nina, 3-26-13, Reuters, “Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists,” http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/us-climate-thresholds-idUSBRE82P0UJ20120326, accessed 7-15-13, EB)
(Reuters) - The world is close ... El Nino phase
Defer to consensus – 97 of scientists and every major scientific organization agrees
NASA 13 (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.)
Ninety-seven percent of ... life on this planet.
Scenario 2 is the Ocean
Anthropogenic rising C02 causes ocean acidification which affects marine biodiversity
Doney , Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, 09 (Sctott C. Doney 1/2009 http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/QwPqRGcRzQM5ffhPjAdT/full/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163834 PB)
Rising atmospheric carbon ,... beyond limiting calcification.¶
Marine ecosystems are critical to the survival of all life on earth.
Craig ‘3 (Robin Kundis Craig, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155)
Biodiversity and ecosystem ... business as a result.
Contention Two is Framing
War is not an impact –
A. Globalization creates cooperative problem solving
Ikenbarry, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and Deudney, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, 2009
(Daniel and G. John, Jan/Feb, “The Myth of the Autocratic Revival,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 88, Issue 1, p. 8, EB)
It is in combination ... integration and cooperation.
B. Nuclear weapons deter all war – empirics prove
Tepperman, LL.M. in International Law from NYU, former Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs, 2009
(Jonathan, 8-28-9, The Daily Beast, “Why Obama Should Learn to Love the Bomb,” http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/08/28/why-obama-should-learn-to-love-the-bomb.html, accessed 7-14-13, EB)
A growing and ... have a death wish.
And nuclear war doesn’t cause extinction–
A. Nuclear Winter Theory Flawed
Ball, Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, 2006
(Desmond, May 2006, Strategic and Defense Studies Center, “The Probabilities of On the Beach: Assessing ‘Armageddon Scenarios’ in the 21st Century,” working paper, p. 4, EB)
The leading populariser ... strategic weapons halved.
B. No Impact to Fallout
Martin, research associate in the Dept. of Mathematics at Australian National University, 1984
(Brian, May 1984, Scientists Against Nuclear Arms Newsletter, “Extinction politics,” number 16, p. 5-6, EB)
The promotion of beliefs ... reserves of food.
Extinction outweighs war and ethics
Bostrum, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, directs the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, 2012
(Nick, 3-6-12, The Atlantic“We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction,” interview with Ross Anderson, correspondent at The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821, accessed 7-15-12, EB)
Bostrom, who directs ... under ordinary standards.
The role of the ballot is to decrease existential risk— the stakes are too high.
Anissimov 4 — Michael Anissimov, science and technology writer focusing specializing in futurism, founding director of the Immortality Institute—a non-profit organization focused on the abolition of nonconsensual death, member of the World Transhumanist Association, associate of the Institute for Accelerating Change, member of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology's Global Task Force, 2004 (“Immortalist Utilitarianism,” Accelerating Future, May, Available Online at http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/works/immethics.htm, Accessed 09-09-2011)
The value of contributing ... risks a central focus.
Contention Three is Solvency
U.S. and Mexico collaborate in renewables right now, but there’s not enough integration
Donnelly, Writer for the Wilson Center, 2010
(Robert, June 28th, News Security Beat, U.S. Mexico Cooperation on Renewable Energy: Building a Green Agenda”, http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2010/06/u-s-mexico-cooperation-on-renewable-energy-building-a-green-agenda/#.Udc-aPnVBsk, accessed 7/5/2013, J.Y.)
A U.S.-Mexico taskforce ... dialogue, she remarked.
AND
Specifically, transmissions projects fail in the status quo
Wood, 2013
(Duncan Wood, the Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, For 17 years, Dr. Wood was a professor and the director of the International Relations Program at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City, His research focuses on Mexican energy policy and North American relations, “Growing Potential for U.S. - Mexico Energy Cooperation”, January 2013)
In order to get ... brought to fruition.
6 internals to solvency
a. Grid integration solves transmission barriers, building a US-Mexico renewables market
Markey, lawyer practicing in LA focusing on the renewable energy sector, 2010
(David, February 2010, “Cross-Border Renewables — Baja to California,” Project Finance Newswire, p. 40, EB)
By a fortunate ... Baja to California.
b. Increased renewables transmission in US are enough to resolve CO2 emissions worldwide
Gramlich et al, senior vice president for public policy at the American Wind Energy Association, 2009
(Rob, Michael Goggin and Katherine Gensler, February, American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association, “Green Power Superhighways: Building a Path to America’s Clean Energy Future,” http://www.awea.org/documents/issues/upload/GreenPowerSuperhighways.pdf, EB)
Without a more ... tap these resources.
c. US-Mexico energy cooperation gets modeled globally, especially in Latin America
Selee, Vice President for Programs and Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute, and Wilson, associate with the
Mexico Institute, 2012
(Andrew and Christopher, November, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, “A New Agenda With Mexico,” http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/a_new_agenda_with_mexico.pdf, accessed 7-6-13, EB)
Over the past ... and Latin America.
d. China would model US action on climate change
Gardner, correspondent on energy and the environment, 2007
(Timothy, Oct. 2, Scribd, “Experts Say China Would Follow U.S. Lead On Climate,” http://www.scribd.com/doc/30958756/Warming-General, accessed 7/12/13, CBC)
China would soon ... in water for agriculture.
e. Latin American electricity integration decreases incentives for deforestation by solving energy poverty
Burgos, Department of Sustainable Development, Organization of American States, 2007
(Francisco J., August, Department of Sustainable Development, “Regional Electricity Cooperation and Integration in the Americas: Potential Environmental, Social and Economic Benefits,” http://www.oas.org/dsd/Documents/RegionalElectricityCooperationandIntegration.pdf, accessed 7-19-13, EB)
Annual growth in ... climate change mitigation.
Deforestation causes over a quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions annually
Houghton, Ph.D in biology, Senior Scientist Woods Hole Research Center, 2005
(Richard A., edited by Paulo Moutinho and Stephan Schwartzman, Amazon Institute for Environmental Research, “Tropical deforestation as a source of greenhouse gas emissions,” http://www.edf.org/sites/default/files/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf, p. 13, EB)
Tropical deforestation, including ... is on carbon (principally, CO2 ).
f. Mexico is a global leader in climate change legislation
IDLO, 2012
(International Development Law Organization, “Legal Analysis Of Mexico General Law On Climate Change,” http://www.idlo.int/english/WhatWeDo/Programs/ClimateFinance/Pages/Mexico.aspx, accessed 7-6-13, EB)
Mexico passed the ... address climate change.