GJP+Malu+Menon+and+Sonny+Stephens


 * Malu Menon - 1A/2N - phenomenon.923@gmail.com**
 * Sonny Stephens - 1N/2A - sonnystephens97@gmail.com**

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**Mexican Renewables 1AC ---**

 * Plan Text:**

**Energy cooperation is key to a SUSTAINABLE partnership – boosts regional economy, solves Mexican violence and reverses Latin anti-US sentiment**
Reyes 13 – JD, member of the USA Today Board of Contributors (Raul, April, “Opinion: President Obama has the chance to improve US/Mexico relations,” http://nbclatino.com/2013/04/29/opinion-president-obama-has-the-chance-to-improve-usmexico-relations/)//BB

Obama will arrive in Mexico with good and bad news... It’s time for a foreign policy with Mexico based on its potential, not on its problems.

**Thinking BEYOND security is key – energy cooperation overcomes alternate impediments and creates a resilient partnership**
Miller and DeLeon 9 - *Stephanie, consultant on U.S.-Latin America relations and was formerly the Research Associate for the Americas Project on the National Security Team. Born in Venezuela with family from Colombia, Miller earned her degree from Duke University in International Comparative Studies with a focus on Latin America. She currently lives in Bogotá, Colombia, **Rudy, Senior Vice President of National Security and International Policy at American Progress (“Transcending the Rio Grande,” http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/04/pdf/mexico.pdf)//BB//

// The U.S.-Mexico relationship is ready for renewed collaboration...and // strengthen relations // with one of the United States’ most important and strategic allies in the hemisphere.

**SEQUENCING is vital – CLIMATE cooperation FIRST spills over to the rest of relations**
Donnelly 10 – Program Associate, Mexico Institute @ Wilson Center

(Robert, “U.S.-Mexico Cooperation on Renewable Energy: Building a Green Agenda,” http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/us-mexico-cooperation-renewable-energy-building-green-agenda)//BB//

// Discussant Johanna Mendelson Forman stressed the linkages connecting climate change... as U.S. companies suffer from a lack of adequate // export-import financing //.

**Energy is COMPARATIVELY the best way to produce a sustainable relationship**
//US Embassy of Mexico ’12// (“U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne Promotes Energy Cooperation at Border Energy Forum in Hermosillo, Sonora,” http://mexico.usembassy.gov/press-releases/us-ambassador-anthony-wayne-promotes-energy-cooperation-at-border-energy-forum-in-hermosillo-sonora.html)//BB

U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne addressed the 19th Annual Border Energy Forum held this year in Hermosillo... All options must be on the table .”

**Energy key to relations**
//Studer ’12// (Isabel- Founding Director Center for Dialogue and Analysis on North America, 12.4.12, ““2012: A New Mexican Vision for North American Integration””, https://www6.miami.edu/hemispheric-policy/Task_Force_Papers/Studer-ModernMexicoTFPaper.pdf)DF

Energy and Climate Change... and even strengthen the North American competitive position in the world economy.

**Only Obama solves – reverses Anti-US sentiment throughout Latin America**
Valencia 13 - New York-based political analyst and is a contributing writer for Global Voices Online

(Robert, “U.S. and Latin America: Economic Cooperation without Militarization?,” http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2013/05/20/us-and-latin-america-economic-cooperation-without-militarization)//BB

In May... and in turn Latin American countries will forge ahead with economic and security integration amongst themselves.

**US-Mexico climate cooperation prevents Latin skirmishes from escalating to war**
Barry 13 – senior policy analyst at the Center for International Policy, where he directs the TransBorder project, he specializes in immigration policy, homeland security, border security and the outsourcing of national security, has authored or co-authored more than twenty books on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, food aid, the United Nations, free trade and U.S. foreign policy

(Tom, “Changing Perspectives on US-Mexico Relations,” http://truth-out.org/news/item/16221-changing-perspectives-on-us-mexico-relations)//BB

It’s unfortunate that the two presidents chose to hold their May 2-3 summit in Mexico City... but bring the communities to the north and those to the south together as neighbors and part of the larger North American community with shared interests and responsibilities.

**Latin American wars go global**
Rochin 94 –Professor of Political Science

(James, Professor of Political Science at Okanagan University College, Discovering the Americas: the evolution of Canadian foreign policy towards Latin America, pp. 130-131)//BB

While there were economic motivations for Canadian policy in Central America... as will be discussed in the next chapter.

**Relations solve border terrorism and drug networks**
Storrs 6 (K. Larry Storrs, Specialist in Latin American Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of CRS, 1/18/2006 “Mexico’s Importance and Multiple Relationships with the United States”, [] )//JG

Sharing a 2,000-mile border and extensive interconnections through the Gulf of Mexico... and energy issues.

**The impact is an attack on US soil**
McCaul 12 – JD @ St. Mary’s, former federal prosecutor

(Michael, “A LINE IN THE SAND: COUNTERING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND TERROR AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER,” UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY, Lexis)//BB//

// Terrorism remains a serious threat to the security of the United States... including // uranium //, which can be safely assembled on U.S. soil into a // weapon of mass destruction //.

**Nuclear war**
Ayson 10 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33.7, InformaWorld)//BB

But these two nuclear worlds... although it must be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.

**Independently, a US economic crisis is coming**
DeLong 13 - Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation (J. Bradford, “The Second Great Depression: Why the Economic Crisis is Worse Than You Think”, July/August 2013 Foreign Affairs)//Beddow//

// Despite its many virtues... the U nited S tates // is likely to suffer another major economic crisis // in the years ahead __. __

**Latin energy connectivity is key to growth**
Noriega and Cardenas 12 – *Former US State Dept Official, ** director with Vision Americas (“An action plan for US policy in the Americas,” December, http://www.aei.org/outlook/foreign-and-defense-policy/regional/latin-america/an-action-plan-for-us-policy-in-the-americas/)//BB//

//America’s economic crisis and threats to US security have //undermined its traditional global-leadership role and// weakened its connections to Latin American nations that continue to modernize their economies... A prosperous hemisphere means a more prosperous United States.

**US growth solves great power war**
Khalilzad 11 – PhD, Former Professor of Political Science @ Columbia, Former ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan (Zalmay Khalilzad was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992. "The Economy and National Security" Feb 8 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad)//BB

Today... hostile states would be emboldened to make aggressive moves in their regions.

**These wars go nuclear**
Harris and Burrows 9 - *Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC), **Jennifer, a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” [] )//BB//

// Increased Potential for Global Conflict... cooperation to manage changing water resources is likely to be // increasingly difficult // both within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.

**Global warming is real and human induced – top climate scientists agree**
Anderegg et al 10 – PhD Candidate @ Stanford in Biology (William, “Expert credibility in climate change,” National Academy of Sciences, p. 12107-12109)//BB

Preliminary reviews of scientific literature and surveys of cli- mate scientists indicate striking agreement with the primary conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):...and public forums regarding anthropogenic climate change.

**Action now averts extinction**
Morgan 9 – professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Dennis Ray, “World on Fire: Two Scenarios of the Destruction of Human Civilization and the Possible Extinction of the Human Race”, 2009)//Beddow

As horrifying as the scenario of human extinction by sudden... which leads to a fundamentally different premise regarding the relationship between industrial civilization and nature.

**Warming is an existential risk – //__ quickening __// reductions is key to avoiding extinction**
Mazo 10 – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA

(Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, “Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it,” pg. 122)//BB

The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2.5-4.~C above pre-industrial levels...and even in the best case adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes.

**Technical assistance for renewables significantly reduces greenhouse gases**
COCEF 12 - La Comisión de Cooperación Ecológica Fronteriza

(“Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Transportation: Project Opportunities in the U.S. – Mexico Border Region,” http://www.cocef.org/Eng/VLibrary/Publications/SpecialReports/BECC%20WP%20%20Nov%202011%20index.pdf)//BB//

// This white paper describes the current deficit in the U.S.-Mexico border region in terms of renewable energy...and the funds will need a // highly capacitated // and // experienced program manager //.

**First – production – they have ENORMOUS renewable energy potential**
Wood 10 – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City

(Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB//

// The North American context... The absence of // economic and financial incentives // for public or private sector development of renewable resources.

**Second – technology transfer – Mexico will spread the green tech globally**
ENS 12 – Environmental News Service

(“U.S., Canada, Mexico Vow ‘Continental’ Energy Grid,” http://www.reepedia.com/archives/4568)//BB

The leaders of the United States ...including electricity generation and interconnection and welcome increasing North American energy trade.”

**Border-region development leads to GLOBAL concentrated-solar transition**
//Smith ’10// – BA in Economics @ Queen’s University, Cofounder and Editor of two clean energy magazines (Tracy, “Progress at the U.S.-Mexico Border Comes in the Form of Clean Energy Technology,” Solar Thermal Magazine, http://www.solarthermalmagazine.com/2010/10/28/progress-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-comes-in-the-form-of-clean-energy-technology/)//BB

“As a local developer... CPV technology yields significantly more energy than other technologies with an extremely light environmental footprint.

**An expanded BECC role quickly facilitates a Mexican green economy**
COCEF 12 - La Comisión de Cooperación Ecológica Fronteriza (“Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Transportation: Project Opportunities in the U.S. – Mexico Border Region,” http://www.cocef.org/Eng/VLibrary/Publications/SpecialReports/BECC%20WP%20%20Nov%202011%20index.pdf)//BB//

// SECTION 4: BECC – THE BORDER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER 25 Since 1995... Their responses track similarly to the priority projects in that they show a // clear and ample need // for // technical assistance // in the focus sectors.

**Renewables solve quickly – outside expertise is key**
Carus 13 - UK journalist, regularly reporting on clean energy policy and finance from California for a global audience (Felicity, “Mexico offers tantalising prospect of a dawning major market,” http://www.pv-tech.org/editors_blog/mexico_offers_tantalising_prospect_of_a_dawning_major_market)//BB

Solar investors in the US and further afield would really love to get their hands on Mexico's solar market... that can come into play much faster than the installation of potential gas pipelines ,” said Hanhausen.

**Specifically – the US is key**
Hartsoch 11 – MA @ San Jose State, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales for SolFocus (Nancy, “A Sunny Future for Border Relations?,” http://breakingenergy.com/2011/05/10/featured-a-sunny-future-for-border-relations/)//BB

Amidst the darkening cloud of violence that grips the US-Mexico border region...cleaner future.

**US technical assistance is key**
//Farnsworth ’13// --- vice president of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society (4/11/2013, Eric, “ENERGY SECURITY OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, HEARING BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, [], JMP)

More broadly... and they // need our technical assistance // to improve the investment climate and the rule of law.

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