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A long-term investment tax credit catapults the offshore wind industry – transitions the US to a green economy
(Nancy, "Offshore Wind Needs a Boost from Congress," http://oceana.org/en/blog/2013/11/offshore-wind-needs-a-boost-from-congress-0)//BB Like so many of us, Oceana has seen the damage that the drilling for AND , the harder it will be to correct the damage we have done.
 * Sopko 13** – JD, former legislative council @ House of Reps

Only a federal mandate can guarantee the expansion of wind energy
However, the Oceans Act and Ocean Management Plan, though promising, have come AND itself and the benefits of offshore wind in state and local decision making.
 * Schroeder, 10** —- J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (October 2010, Erica, California Law Review, "Turning Offshore Wind On," Vol. 98, No, 5, Lexis, JMP)

Reforming the permitting process is key – Massachusetts provides an opportune model for streamlined development
[*Kenneth, *Dawn, "The Cape Wind Offshore Wind Energy Project: A Case Study of the Difficult Transition to Renewable Energy", Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal, Volume 5 Issue 1, http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=gguelj] The Cape Wind saga reveals that the current permitting process for offshore wind energy AND reform and provides models for the types of reform that are needed.
 * Kimmel***, and Stalenhoef**, 10-10-**2011 **– *Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection** Counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities

Long-term incentives ensure that the supply chain follows on – fed support key
Galluci 11 - Staff Reporter at InsideClimate News Honduras Contributor at Fodor's, Co-Editor & Reporter at The News, Newsroom Intern at Associated Press, Newsroom Intern at Columbus Business (Maria, "Never-Used Tax Credit Could Jumpstart US Offshore Wind Energy—if Renewed," http://truth-out.org/news/item/4778:neverused-tax-credit-could-jumpstart-us-offshore-wind-energy%E2%80%94if-renewed) Matt Kaplan, a North American wind analyst at IHS Emerging Energy Research, said AND accordance with this mandate; increase incentives for offshore wind power development.

Warming is anthropogenic
Green 13 – Professor of Chemistry @ Michigan Tech, AND 1% based on abstract ratings) endorses the scientific consensus on AGW.
 * John Cook – Fellow @ Global Change Institute, produced climate communication resources adopted by organisations such as NOAA and the U.S. Navy
 * Dana Nuccitelli – MA in Physics @ UC-Davis**
 * Mark Richardson

Even if some warming is inevitable, keeping it below 4 degrees avoids the worst impacts
(Jim Yong, "Turn Down the Heat," p. ix) The 4°C scenarios are devastating: the inundation of coastal cities; increasing AND in mind. The World Bank Group will step up to the challenge.
 * Kim 12** – PhD in Anthropology @ Harvard, former president of Dartmouth, Now President of the World Bank

Catastrophic warming risks 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) The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2 AND adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes.

Independently, emissions cause ocean acidification – extinction
(Joseph J., "Science: Ocean Acidifying so fast that it threatens humanity's ability to feed itself", 3/2/12; http://earthlawcenter.org/news/headline/science-ocean-acidifying-so-fast-it-threatens-humanitys-ability-to-feed-itself/) The world's oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they AND species goes extinct it's gone forever. We're playing a very dangerous game."
 * Romm** **12** – physicist and climate expert, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

US offshore wind development curbs carbon emissions
Thaler 12 - Professor of Energy Policy, Law & Ethics (Jeff, "FIDDLING AS THE WORLD BURNS: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE URGENTLY REQUIRES A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE PERMITTING OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS," 42 Environmental Law Journal 1101)//BB Unfortunately, as the economic and health costs from fossil fuel emissions have grown so AND and Block Island in Rhode Island would likewise be shallow-water installations.

Offshore wind is comparatively the cleanest and most productive renewable energy
(Thomas, et al, "From the 35th Public Land Law Conference: Balancing Act and Paradigm Shift: The Role of Public Lands in America's Energy Future: Oceans: Are Ocean Wind Turbines like Homesteads and Gold Mines and Railroads? A Public Lands Policy Question for the Climate Change Era," 34 Pub. Land & Resources L. Rev. 93)//BB The ocean wind resource in United States marine waters is estimated to be as large AND people, is unused and wasted as a tool to power our communities.
 * Jensen 13** – partner in the Washington, DC office of Holland & Hart LLP

Full-scale offshore wind would be enough electricity for the entire country
(Dave, "Will Offshore Wind Finally Take Off on U.S. East Coast?," http://e360.yale.edu/feature/will_offshore_wind_finally_take_off_on_us_east_coast/2693/)//BB "The East Coast is the Saudi Arabia of offshore wind, because there is AND coasts in particular are windy spots with water depths that make development feasible.
 * Levitan 13** - writes about energy, the environment, and health. His articles have been published by Scientific American, Discover, IEEE Spectrum, Grist, and others. In previous articles for Yale Environment 360, he has written about vehicle-to-grid technology for electric cars and cities' efforts to recycle food scraps and organic waste

Electricity-emissions reductions sufficiently solve global warming
(H. Hizam,M.Z.A. Ab Kadir,I. Aris,S.D. BubaElectrical & Electronic Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, "Mitigating the anthropogenic global warming in the electric power industry," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16.5)//BB 5. Power industry's share of CO2 emissions To identify the most productive mitigation strategies AND of these possible mitigation techniques is discussed in turn in the following subsections.
 * Akorede 12** - .F., Ph.D degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia

Fast growth promotes US leadership and solves great power war
(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, economic and fiscal trends pose the most severe long-term threat to AND , hostile states would be emboldened to make aggressive moves in their regions.
 * Khalilzad 11** – PhD, Former Professor of Political Science @ Columbia, Former ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan

Slow growth leads to hegemonic wars – relative gap is key
Goldstein 07 - Professor of Global Politics and International Relations @ University of Pennsylvania [Avery Goldstein, "Power transitions, institutions, and China's rise in East Asia: Theoretical expectations and evidence," Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 30, Issue 4 & 5 August 2007, pages 639 – 682] Two closely related, though distinct, theoretical arguments focus explicitly on the consequences for AND the period prior to the possible crossover.19 pg. 647-650

States will inevitably compete for relative status – only primacy can prevent conflict
Wohlforth 09 – Professor of government @ Dartmouth College. [William C. Wohlforth, "Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War," World Politics, Volume 61, Number 1, January 2009] Second, I question the dominant view that status quo evaluations are relatively independent of AND in security and/or prosperity. Pg. 33-35//1ac

Manufacturing sector jobs likely to decrease soon
====McCarthy 8-1 (McCarthy "The little-known FRED charts that reveal the state of the U.S. economy" The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/08/01/the-little-known-fred-charts-that-reveal-the-state-of-the-u-s-economy/)//LK==== "The trendlines for manufacturing and construction employment had been steadily converging in the three decades to 2007. This is easily explained: Construction employment historically has been powerfully cyclical, while the combination of globalization and technological advancement had aggressively boosted productivity growth in the manufacturing sector, leading it to shed jobs even as output climbed. The construction sector still employs nearly 1.5 million fewer workers now than at the start of the recession, and the manufacturing sector more than 1.6 million fewer. No other sector is close to these levels of remaining net job losses. The decline in manufacturing employment seem likely to continue on its pre-crisis secular trajectory, despite the occasional upward blip. But the construction sector is a more complicated story. A researcher at the St. Louis Fed concluded, based on aggregate payroll hours worked in the sector both before and after the crisis, that employment in the sector accounts for most of the remaining labor market slack. (The indexes of aggregate hours worked in the second Fred graph are set to 100 in 2007.) And given the sector's endlessly abysmal productivity growth, construction employment is likely to start rising more impressively when — if! — the economy finally produces the long-awaited acceleration in household formation growth. But whether or not construction employment exceeds its prior employment peak — as it has in every business cycle expansion but one since 1960 — depends on a few factors that remain uncertain: mortgage credit tightness and other supply-side bottlenecks, the split between multifamily and single-family residences, resiliency of the decline in the homeownership rate, the impact of demographic trends, and most obviously the continued vigor of the cyclical recovery itself."

Offshore wind promotes fast US growth
(Michael and Bruce Bailey, "Offshore development can yield economic benefits," North American Wind Power, Fall 2010)//BB Economic opportunities Wind power is a job-creation engine. According to the AND could provide installation capacity for a number of projects on the East Coast.
 * N'dolo 10** – associate principal @ Camoin Associates

Even limited energy production leads to quick growth
Sargent 12 (Rob Sargent, U.S. Poised to Join the Race on Offshore Wind: Lawmakers Must Commit to More Pollution-Free Energy", http://www.environmentamerica.org/news/ame/us-poised-join-race-offshore-wind)//BB The Turning Point for Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy includes details on the key milestones each AND efforts to secure buyers for this new source of reliable, clean energy.

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