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=Aff 1: Mexican Renewables=

**Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide renewable energy assistance to Mexico through the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission. **
=** Contention One **=
 * Contention 1: Inherency **


 * Bonner et al 10- **Former Commissioner of U.S. customs and Border Protection, Former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (Robert C.,”Managing the United States-Mexico Border: Cooperative Solutions to Common Challenges”, 1/14/10; < http://www.pacificcouncil.org/document.doc?id=31>)//Beddow

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 * O’Toole 12 - ** teacher of Latin American Politivs at the region of Queen Mary, University of London, former visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, subeditor of the Observer, contributor to Reuters, Al Jazeera, and the Guardian (Gavin, “Red light for green energy in Latin America and the Caribbean”, 6/8/12; < http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/08/green-energy-latin-america-caribbean)//Beddow ======


 * Contention Two **
 * Advantage 1: Relations **

Energy cooperation is key to a SUSTAINABLE partnership – boosts regional economy, solves Mexican violence and reverses Latin anti-US sentiment
(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
 * Reyes 13 ** – JD, member of the USA Today Board of Contributors

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(“Transcending the Rio Grande,” http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/04/pdf/mexico.pdf)//BB
 * 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======

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

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

US-Mexico climate cooperation prevents Latin skirmishes from escalating to war
(Tom, “Changing Perspectives on US-Mexico Relations,” http://truth-out.org/news/item/16221-changing-perspectives-on-us-mexico-relations)//BB
 * 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

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

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

The impact is an attack on US soil
(Michael, “A LINE IN THE SAND: COUNTERING CRIME, VIOLENCE AND TERROR AT THE SOUTHWEST BORDER,” UNITED STATES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY, Lexis)//BB
 * McCaul 12 ** – JD @ St. Mary’s, former federal prosecutor

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

=Contention 3=

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

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

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

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


 * Mexico is key**

First – production – they have ENORMOUS renewable energy potential
(Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB
 * Wood 10 ** – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City

Second – technology transfer – Mexico will spread the green tech globally
(“U.S., Canada, Mexico Vow ‘Continental’ Energy Grid,” http://www.reepedia.com/archives/4568)//BB
 * ENS 12 ** – Environmental News Service

Third – international cooperation – Mexican leadership leads to GLOBAL climate agreements
(Shannon, “Mexico Makes It: A Transformed Society, Economy, and Government,” Foreign Affairs, 92.2)//BB
 * 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

Contention 4
Contention 4 is solvency

BECC solves greenhouse gas reduction
(“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
 * COCEF 12 ** - La Comisión de Cooperación Ecológica Fronteriza

US financing and expertise is key
(Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB
 * Wood 10 ** – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City

Expanded binational cooperation is key

 * 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

Mexico supports investment

 * World Energy 8 **(Allan T. Marks, “Mexico Offers Diverse Opportunities for Investment in Renewable Energy”, http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ipe2012/files/0208_mexico_offers_diverse_opportunities_world_energy.pdf)//lm