Tournament: Westside | Round: Finals | Opponent: Millard North | Judge: People
1AC Solar Revolution- Millard west MP
Inherency:
A U.S./Mexican meeting revealed the opportunities and new technology that makes Mexico full of potential. More attention is necessary for projects to get anywhere.
Castellanos 10/4/13
Nieto has downgraded emphasis on renewable energy in Mexico
Christopher Wilson et al., January 2013, Wilson Center, "New Ideas for a New Era: Policy Options for the Next Stage in US - Mexico Relations," p. 42-43
Solar energy represents less that 1 percent of all of Mexico’s energy
Balch 09
Oliver Balch Dec 29, 2009 (http://social.csptoday.com/emerging-markets/mexicos-untapped-csp-potential)
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Plan
Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its economic engagement towards Mexico by increasing Mexican-American solar energy trade through the combined efforts of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and funding from North American Development Bank. This will be enacted through normal means and we will clarify in cross-x if asked.
Advantage 1: Warming
EVEN THE UN agrees that warming is accelerating, caused by humans and we need to do something about it
The UN 13
Impact A.
Global warming is destroying biodiversity, species are going extinct.
Hansen 8 – Professor of Earth Sciences @ Columbia James E, Head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Columbia University. Al Gore’s science advisor. Introductory chapter for the book State of the Wild. “Tipping point: Perspective of a Scientist.” April. http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/StateOfWild_20080428.pdf
We have 6 years to stop biodiversity loss before humans face extinction
Walsh 10 Bryan, covers environment, energy and — when the need arises — particularly alarming diseases for TIME magazine, Wildlife: A Global Convention on Biodiversity Opens in Japan, But Can It Make a Difference? October 18, 2010 http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/10/18/wildlife-a-global-convention-on-biodiversity-opens-in-japan-but-can-it-make-a-difference/#ixzz131wU6CSp
Global warming kills, Humans will go extinct- empirics prove
Sydney Morning Herald ’03 Jun 20, “Global Warming threatens Earth with mass extinction,” Lexis
Impact B.
Global Warming depletes Ozone layer
Shah 02
(Anup Shah 6/8/02 http://www.globalissues.org/article/184/the-ozone-layer-and-climate-change PB)
Ozone depletion causes complete extinction – scientific consensus is on our side
Greenpeace, 1995, Full of Holes: Montreal Protocol and the Continuing Destruction of the Ozone Layer, http://archive.greenpeace.org/ozone/holes/holebg.html
Extensive research proves that global warming will lead to extinction. Other scientists don’t consider the weather phenomena. This is proven to be the most probable extinction scenario.
Morgan ‘09,
Professor of Current Affairs @ Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, (Dennis Ray, “World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race”, Futures, Volume 41, Issue 10, December 2009, Pages 683-693, ScienceDirect
Renewable cooperation with Mexico is modeled globally
World wildlife fund 13
W.W.F., 6/4/13, (World Wildlife Fund), "WWF welcomes Mexico's 2050 Climate Vision; now global funding must be made available to implement such strategies," http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?208932/WWF-welcomes-Mexicos-2050-Climate-Vision-now-global-funding-must-be-made-available-to-implement-such-strategies
Solar energy is the best method to solve Global warming
Delucchi and Jacobson 2013
Mark A. Delucchi and Mark Z. Jacobson (Mark A. Delucchi is a research scientist at the Institute of Transportation Studies, Univer- sity of California, Davis. Mark Z. Jacobson is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford Uni- versity) 2013
Solar technology can solve global warming
Bose 10 (Bimal K. Bose, The Condra Chair of Excellence in power electronics at the University of Tennessee, March 2010, “Global Warming: Energy, Environmental Pollution and the Impact of Power Electronics”, Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE 4.1 JG)
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Advantage 2: Poverty
Nearly half of Mexicans are in poverty and the poverty rate is increasing
Rhonda and Burton 11
Dr. Richard Rhoda, originally from California, has a PhD in Geography from the University of Iowa. Tony Burton, born in the UK, has an MA in Geography from Cambridge University and a teaching qualification from the University of London. Is Poverty in Mexico on the Rise? September 6th, 2011 http://geo-mexico.com/?p=5075
Poverty is racist, sexist, and affects discriminated groups disproportionately
United Nations Human rights 11
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13941andLangID=E
Poverty causes dehumanization. It is a moral obligation take action against dehumanization
Robinson and Ciriello 98
(Order of Preachers(dominican nun), PhD) '98
bernadine and Maria Formation and Development for catholic School Leaders p. 192 EHF
Renewables alleviate poverty in Mexico
Wood 10
Duncan Wood is 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. He has a PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University. Environment, Development, and Growth: US-Mexico Cooperation in RenewableEnergies http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Renewable20Energy20report.pdf
Renewables create sustainable jobs, unlike fossil fuel jobs
Hernandez et al 12
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations,
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México,2012 (Sergio,Bernardo Duarte Rodríguez-Granada,Omar Romero-Hernandez,Duncan Wood, “Solar Energy Potential
in Mexico’s Northern Border States”,http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Border_Solar_Romero_0.pdf, SB)
Empirics prove: Renewables create jobs
The Energy Collective 7/17 (Billy Parish, “United States Can't Afford to Cede Green Energy Industry to Competitors”, http://theenergycollective.com/billyparish/249626/us-cant-afford-cede-green-energy-industry-its-competitors)//lm
Solvency
Our in-round scientific discourse of renewables SPECIFICALLY is key and a prerequisite for these real world issues to be solved. We do so by presenting the opportunity to explore the pros and cons of renewables and promoting public understanding.
Lars Broman1,*, Tara C. Kandpal1, 13 May 2011
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/057/vol10/026/ecp57vol10_026.pdf
Strömstad Academy, SE-45280 Strömstad, Sweden 2
Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology IIT-Delhi, Delhi 11001, India
- Corresponding author. Tel: +46 708 810 178, E-mail: lars.broman@stromstadakademi.se
The “any risk” logic would cause social paralysis, evaluate probability over magnitude
Meskill 09 (David, professor at Colorado School of Mines and PhD from Harvard, “The "One Percent Doctrine" and Environmental Faith,” Dec 9, http://davidmeskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-percent-doctrine-and-environmental.html)
Cooperation with the US is essential, only we have the necessary expertise and financial backing
Phillippidis 4/9/10
George Phillippidis, 4/9/10, University of Miami - Center for Hemispheric Policy, (Energy Director, Applied Research Center, Florida International University, Miami), Energy in the Americas, https://umshare.miami.edu/web/wda/hemisphericpolicy/Philippidis_Energy_in_the_Americas.pdf
Increasing trade interdependence promotes long-term peace and abolishes the chance of war. Empirics prove.
Griswold 98 (Daniel Griswold, associate director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, “Peace on Earth, Free Trade For All,” http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/peace-earth-free-trade-men, December 31, 1998)
The green energy revolution is at the tipping point.
Maslin et al 11 – Professor at Department of Geography at University College of London (Mark, “Global health and climate change: moving from denial and catastrophic fatalism to positive action”, 2011; http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1942/1866.full.pdf+html)//Beddow
Mexican leadership leads to GLOBAL climate agreements
O’Neill 13 – PhD in Government @ Harvard, senior fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank and membership organization
(Shannon, “Mexico Makes It: A Transformed Society, Economy, and Government,” Foreign Affairs, 92.2)