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Mexican Renewables 1AC

Relations
Relations are collapsing – energy cooperation is key 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]] AND
 * __Obama __** will arrive in Mexico with good and bad news. On the positive side, he **__can highlight the progress __**
 * __. It’s time for a foreign policy with Mexico based on its potential, not on its problems__**.

Plan key to foster resiliency in relations
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 __ __And__ __can begin to build on__

Declining relations leads to Chinese expansionism
A waning partnership between America and Mexico could precipitate AND
 * Brzezinski 12 **– former National Security Adviser (Zbigniew, “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, 2012, pp. 108-109)//Beddow

overtly anti-American governments in their economic development.

And, US influence solves

 * Dowd 4/19** – adjunct professor and lecturer at Butler University, researcher and administrator at leading think tanks, congressional aide (Alan W., “Monroe Doctrine Version 2.0”, 4/19/13; [], JMP)

__Much has been reported about Washington’s pivot into Asia and the Pacific __ __AND__
 * __There is room for only one great power in the Western Hemisphere.__**

Unchecked Chinese Latin American influence causes Sino-American war
Hilton 13 **– **writer, Latin America editor for The Independent, editor of chinadialogue.net, contributor to NOREF Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center, independent peacebuilding foundation (Isabel, “China in Latin America: Hegemonic challenge?” February 2013; <

__There are warnings within the U.S. security community about the potential implications of Chines __ __And__ . At that point, the traditional Latin American allies of the U.S. could face some uncomfortable choices.

Additionally, Chinese influence in Latin America challenges and undermines US hegemony.
Nolte 13 ** – ** acting president of GIGA, director of GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, and professor of political science at the University of Hamburg (Detlef, “The Dragon in the Backyard: US Visions of China’s Relations Toward Latin America”, No. 5, 2013; < http://www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/download.php?d=/content/publikationen/pdf/gf_international_1305.pdf>)//Beddow

As Gonzalo Paz (2012: 20) emphasizes, perceived challenges to hegemonic power are AND

Nathan and Scobell 2012; Noesselt 2012).

Heg sustainable but declining – it must be renewed to stop war.

 * Brzezinski 12 ** – former National Security Adviser (Zbigniew, “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, 2012; )//Beddow//

//In answering these questions this book will argue that // //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">AND //

//**__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">security of the global commons, and to global stability at large __**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">. This book seeks to outline the needed strategic vision, looking beyond 2025 //

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">WARMING
//**We control scientific consensus**// //**Anderegg et al 10** – PhD Candidate @ Stanford in Biology// //(William, “Expert credibility in climate change,” National Academy of Sciences, p. 12107-12109)//BB

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Preliminary reviews of scientific literature and surveys of cli- mate scientists indicate striking <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND

__forums regarding anthropogenic climate change__.

Warming is reversible but the brink is now
Lemonick 12- Climate Central [Michael D. Lemonick, senior staff writer at Climate Central, a non-profit climate reporting service, and a former senior science writer at Time magazine, 12/21/12, “It’s Not Too Late to Limit Global Temperatures - But Almost,” http://www.climatecentral.org/news/its-not-too-late-to-limit-global-temperatures-but-almost-15397, accessed 12/23/12, JTF]

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">For a couple of years now, <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">climate scientists have agreed <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">from power-plant smokestacks before it can enter the atmosphere.

Warming and CO2 causes extinction with positive feedbacks -- no risk of turns

 * Leslie 10 ** (John Leslie a Canadian philosopher. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, earning his B.A. in English Literature in 1962 and his M.Litt. in Classics in 1968. He is currently Professor emeritus at the University of Guelph, in Ontario, Canada. “The Risk that Humans Will Soon Be Extinct” Philosophy Volume 85 / Issue 04 / October 2010, pp 447 ­ 463) Cambridge Journals


 * __<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Look next at the possibility of utterly disastrous climate change, __**
 * AND**
 * __<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Earth becomes uninhabitable. __**

Methane leads to extinction
[], Thursday 20 May 2010) just getting to know.
 * Guardian 10 ** ( Guardian News “Did Deepwater methane hydrates cause the BP Gulf explosion?”
 * __<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The vast deepwater methane __**
 * AND**

Additionally, absent renewables, energy crises trigger every impact and end in great power war.

 * JOE 10 -** United States Joint Forces Command Center for Joint Futures, informational arm of Department of Defense (Joint Operating Environment, “The JOE 2010”, 11/25/08; [])//Beddow

__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">To meet even the conservative growth __ __AND__ <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> nations by ruthless conquest.

Technical assistance
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// //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> white <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">paper describes the current deficit // //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND //

highly capacitated// and //experienced program manager//.

2. Diplomacy
Villar ’12 (Marina Guajardo Villar, June 2012 “How is Mexico implementing its soft power by means of its public diplomacy to influence its international image?” Master Thesis, Clingendael, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, the paper extensively consulted the work of

Joseph Nye, Nicholas Cull, Jan Melissen and Simon Anholt https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/19412/MarinaGuajardo_MasterThesis_FINAL.pdf?sequence=1,//JG)//

//<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">COP16/CMP6 refers to the 16th edition of Conference // //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND //

//(Yvo de Boer, former head of UN climate change).//

//**3. Global Spillover**// // Huacuz 5 (Jorge M. Huacuz, PhD @ UC-San Diego in physics, specialist in unconventional energy sources, president of the national association of solar energy in Mexico November 2005 “The road to green power in Mexico – reflections on the prospects for the large-scale and sustainable implementation of renewable energy” Energy Policy 33.16// JG) <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The number of non-government <span class="StyleBoldUnderline" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">organizations <span class="StyleBoldUnderline" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND

//technology transfer, and joint implementation work.//

(Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB// //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The North American context**__The North American economic region is experiencing__** // //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND //
 * 4. Potential**
 * Wood 10** – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City

//**__incentives__** **__for__** **__public or private sector development of renewable resources__**//

**__ Plan __** //** The United States Federal Government should provide renewable energy assistance to Mexico **//

//**__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Solvency __**//

//**Finally – solvency**//

//**Renewable assistance ensures rapid Mexican adoption.**//

//**Carus 13** - only UK journalist to be 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

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Solar investors in the US and further afield would really love to get their hands on Mexico's solar market <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">AND


 * __<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">because that can come into play much faster than the installation of __**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> potential **__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">gas pipelines,” __**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> said Hanhausen


 * Renewables 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)//

//<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Nuclear power is claimed to be environmentally clean, and currently, there is demand for increasing nuclear power generation. // //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND //

//, **__will mitigate global warming problem.__**//

//**Specifically – the US is key**//

//--aid is high now, but should be re-oriented towards renewables//

//**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

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND
 * __<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Amidst the darkening cloud of violence that grips the US-Mexico border region __**<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">, a surprising ray of **__sunlight__** **__illuminates a prosperous, cleaner futur__**


 * __more effective__** **__means to creating a peaceful, prosperous, cleaner future__**.


 * Mexican activists want the plan – they despise overreliance on fossil fuels**


 * Greenpeace 4**

(Greenpeace is the largest independent direct-action environmental organization in the world, “Concerned Citizens from the U.S. and Mexico Demand a Stop to LNG Project,” May 26, 2004, http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/news-releases/concerned-citizens-from-the-u/)//BB//

//<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">A day after a major protest in Mexico, Greenpeace, members of the Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy coalition (RACE) // //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">AND //

//**__invest in Mexico's untapped clean energy potential__****__.__**//

//**1. Merida initiative**// //**Janes 13**(Jared Janes, Reporter for The Monitor, 2/4/13, “Cuellar: U.S. aid to Mexico should continue”, http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_72349d54-6e60-11e2-898e-001a4bcf6878.html//DH)
 * __<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">U.S. aid allocated under the Merida Initiative will continue to be delivered to Mexico __**


 * __<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">U.S. aid allocated under the Merida Initiative will continue to be delivered to Mexico __**
 * AND**
 * __we’re going to be continuing with Plan Merida or whatever we might call the assistance to Mexico.”__**

Appropriations”, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42582.pdf//DH)//
 * 2. Fiscal Year 2013 budget**
 * CRS, 6/26** (Congressional Research Service, Service that researches fact for/within congress, 6/26/13, “U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and FY2013

//**__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Under the FY2013 request, Mexico would receive $269.5 __**// //**AND**// //providing less costly training and capacity building programs.8//

//**3. Obama’s already pushing coop**// //**Castellanos 5/3** (Edwin Castellanos, 5/3/13 “USA and Mexicos cooperation in green energy” [] ,// JG) <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">In terms of renewable energy, **__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">the U.S. president pledged to secure an energy future including __** most important issues that both countries face and ensuring the welfare of future generations.
 * AND**

__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Almost as informative as the decline in warfare has been where this decline is occurring. __ __AND__ __prosperity prevail, that war becomes a durable anachronism.__
 * Our globalist epistemology is best – makes war redundant**
 * Gartzke 11**__ Erik Gartzke is an associate Professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego PhD from Iowa and B.A. from UCSF "SECURITY IN AN INSECURE WORLD" www.cato-unbound.org/2011/02/09/erik-gartzke/security-in-an-insecure-world/ __

Failure on immigration doesn’t matter – Obama can solve the impacts through XOs The Hill 2-16 (“Dems: Obama can act unilaterally on immigration reform”

http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/administration/283583-dems-recognize-that-obama-can-act-unilaterally-on-immigration-reform#ixzz2LEvg4R5R)

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;">President **__<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Obama can – and will – take steps on immigration reform in the event Congress doesn't reach __**
 * AND**
 * __The president will move forward where he can if Congress doesn't act."__**

=__**All of Manoj's Past 2NR's**__= Note: I have only been here for 4 weeks even though I am in a 7-week lab, so that is why I don't have too many 2NR's.

Hope this is helpful!

__vs. Mexican Renewables__ (Relations and Warming) - Oil DA and case - Neolib K

__vs. Cuban Embargo__ (Multilat, Transition, Ag) - ESPEC - Neolib K

__vs. Mexican Poverty__ (Poverty and Gender impact) - QPQ Mexican Labor Rights with Econ Impact