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Contention one is relations
(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. On the positive side// //AND// //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** Sequencing is vital – Climate cooperation FIRST spills over to the rest of relations Donnelly 10** – Program Associate, Mexico Institute @ Wilson Center ** //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** US-Mexico climate cooperation prevents Latin skirmishes from escalating 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 – even absent escalation, they cause counterbalancing and conflict// //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** 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// //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** Nuclear war Ayson 10** - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington ** //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** 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// // Key points in this Outlook: // //America’s economic crisis and threats to US security have undermined its traditional global-leadership// //AND// //its own hemisphere. 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 www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/259024)//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. Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer is a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” [] Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is AND within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world. **__ Warming __**
 * 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
 * The U.S.-Mexico relationship is ready for renewed collaboration on a range**
 * AND**
 * of the United States’ most important and strategic allies in ¶ the hemisphere.**
 * (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, energy, and economic//**
 * //AND//**
 * //S. companies suffer from a lack of adequate export-import financing.//**
 * In May, President Barack Obama visited Mexico and Costa Rica and vowed to strengthen**
 * AND**
 * Latin American countries will forge ahead with economic and security integration amongst themselves.**
 * (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//**
 * //AND//**
 * //and part of the larger North American community with shared interests and responsibilities.//**
 * While there were economic motivations for Canadian policy in Central America, security considerations were**
 * AND**
 * , such as Contadora, as will be discussed in the next chapter.**
 * //Sharing a 2,000-mile border and extensive interconnections through the Gulf of//**
 * //AND//**
 * //, and border, terrorism,¶ health, environment, and energy issues.//**
 * Terrorism remains a serious threat to the security of the United States. The Congressional**
 * AND**
 * on U.S. soil ¶ into a weapon of mass destruction.**
 * (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33.7, InformaWorld)//BB// **
 * //But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a//**
 * //AND//**
 * //be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.//**
 * Despite its many virtues, however, the book paints an overly optimistic portrait of**
 * AND**
 * States is likely to suffer another major economic crisis in the years ahead.**
 * Nuclear war**
 * Harris and Burrows 9 **

Contention two is warming
(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// //AND// //discussions in media, policy, 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, fast-burning nuclear AND to a fundamentally different premise regarding the relationship between industrial civilization and nature. (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// //AND// //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 AND and the funds will need a highly ¶ capacitated and experienced program manager. (Duncan, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, http://www.statealliancepartnership.org/resources_files/USMexico_Cooperation_Renewable_Energies.pdf)//BB// //The North American context¶ The North American economic region is experiencing an impact from// //AND// //economic and financial incentives for public or private sector¶ development of renewable resources// //**Second – 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, Mexico, and Canada today pledged to develop AND , including electricity generation and interconnection and welcome increasing North American energy trade.” (Shannon, “Mexico Makes It: A Transformed Society, Economy, and Government,” Foreign Affairs, 92.2)//BB If Mexico addresses these challenges, it will emerge as a powerful player on the AND help construct new international financial, trade, and climate-change accords.
 * Global warming is real and human induced – top climate scientists agree**
 * Anderegg et al 10** – PhD Candidate @ Stanford in Biology
 * Warming is an existential risk – //__quickening__// reductions is key to avoiding extinction**
 * Mazo 10** – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA
 * Mexico is key:**
 * First – they have ENORMOUS renewable energy potential**
 * Wood 10** – PhD in Political Studies @ Queen’s, Professor @ ITAM in Mexico City
 * Third - 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

Those are key to solve warming
Many participants in the environmental debate state that a global climate agreement will never materialize AND climate policy. With the current escape strategies we are only fooling ourselves.
 * Van den Bergh 11** – Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fellow of Tinbergen Institute and NAKE (Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, “Effective Climate-Energy Solutions, Escape Routes and Peak Oil” ICREA, Barcelona, Institute for Environmental Science and Technology and Department of Economics and Economic History, March 2011, http://icta.uab.cat.proxy.lib.umich.edu/99_recursos/1331896721815.pdf) MR

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The United States federal government should substantially increase renewable energy assistance to Mexico.
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Last is solvency
(“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,// //AND// //show a clear and ample need for technical assistance in the focus sectors.// //**Renewables solve quickly – outside expertise is key**// //**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 Solar investors in the US and further afield would really love to get their hands AND play much faster than the installation of potential gas pipelines,” said Hanhausen. --aid is high now, but should be re-oriented towards renewables (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, AND a more effective means to creating a peaceful, prosperous, cleaner future.
 * An expanded BECC role quickly facilitates a Mexican green economy**
 * COCEF 12** - La Comisión de Cooperación Ecológica Fronteriza
 * Specifically – the US is key**
 * Hartsoch 11** – MA @ San Jose State, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales for SolFocus