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Schroeder 10 – J.D @ Berkeley, M.E.M., Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

(Erica, “Turning Offshore Wind On,” California Law Review, 98.5)//BB

Even limited energy production promotes rapid 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

//__ Specifically __//, fast growth promotes US leadership and solves great power war
-2 months 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

States will inevitably compete for relative status – only primacy can prevent conflict
Wohlforth 9 - Professor of government at Dartmouth

(William, “Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War” World Politics, 61:1, January, Project Muse)

Hegemony deters and controls escalation by internalizing costs
Moore 4 – Dir. Center for Security Law and Professor of Law @ University of Virginia, Editor of the American Journal of International Law (John Norton, “Solving the War Puzzle: Beyond the Democratic Peace,” pg. 41-43)

Squo can’t continue- not fast enough growth
Goldstein 7 - 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, EBSCO)

Offshore wind is key- fastest growth
N’dolo 10 – associate principal @ Camoin Associates

(Michael and Bruce Bailey, “Offshore development can yield economic benefits,” North American Wind Power, Fall 2010)//BB

Warming is on the rise. Only the plan’s //__scope__// and //__urgency__// solves quickly and spill over
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

Plan provides the necessary //__scope__// and //__urgency__//
Stern 14 – Professor of Economics, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE

(Nicholas, “Climate change is here now and it could lead to global conflict,” The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/storms-floods-climate-change-upon-us-lord-stern)//BB

a) generates electricity for entire country
-East coast can provide all the energy us needs 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 (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

a) Electricity-emissions reductions sufficiently solve global warming
-solve for emissions solve for warming

Akorede 12 - .F., Ph.D degree in Electrical Power Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia

(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

Offshore wind is better than alternatives
Jensen 13 – partner in the Washington, DC office of Holland & Hart LLP

(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 lack of a strong and effective __federal mandate__ is a __key barrier__ blocking offshore wind development
Federal mandates except on ocean 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)

The plan ensures offshore wind development --- it maintains NEPA reviews to prevent environmentally destructive __over development__
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)

Long-term incentives ensure that the supply chain follows on – fed support key
-supply chain: people who convert energy. -US is key to get foreign investment on board 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)

Only a federal __mandate__ can guarantee the expansion of wind energy
-Feds are key for wide use and states are slow 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)

Wind is sufficient to solve warming and doesn’t drive up energy costs
Goggin 12 - Manager of Transmission Policy at the American Wind Energy Association, Previously consulted for two environmental advocacy groups and a consulting firm supporting the U.S. Department of Energy’s renewable energy programs, Holds an undergraduate degree with honors from Harvard University (Michael, Fact check: Coverage of Argonne wind and emissions study flawed, June 2006, http://www.awea.org/blog/index.cfm? customel_dataPageID_1699=16631)

Cyborgs: Poem included

In Western thought, nature is constructed in opposition to the queer—difference is marked as __unnatural__ as a method of ostracizing groups of people
Merrick, 8 - PhD History (UWA), Senior lecturer at Curtin University (Helen, “Queering nature: close encounters with the alien in feminist science fiction,” 2008 Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R?func=dbin-jump-full&local_base=gen01-era02&object_id=20732)//gingE

That mindset causes omnicide
Sedgwick, 8  (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2008 The Epistemology of the Closet)//gingE

Specifically, our orientation towards the ocean is one that posits it as a subject to be examined and dominated instead of something that is living
Weinstone, ‘94  (Ann “Resisting Monsters: Notes on "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 173-190 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4240332) //GY

Our subjugation of nature has led to our commodification and oppression of women
Dreese, ’99 - an author and Associate Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University (Donelle N. “The Terrestrial and Aquatic Intelligence of Linda Hogan” pgs. 19-21 http://www.jstor.org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/stable/20736931?seq=14&Search=yes&searchText=ecofeminism&searchText=AND&searchText=ocean&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Docean%2BAND%2Becofeminism%26amp%3Bprq%3D%2522ocean%2Bexploration%2522%2BAND%2Bfeminism%26amp%3Bhp%3D25%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bso%3Drel&prevSearch=&resultsServiceName=null) //GY

Cyborgs represent the queer other – we subjugate these “monsters” to reinforce dominant white male heterosexual narratives
Weinstone, ‘94  (Ann “Resisting Monsters: Notes on "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 173-190 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4240332) //GY


 * Technological fixes make environmental problems worse – we must reject the human – nature binary and embrace a more personal technological analysis before attempting to heal the wounds of Nature **


 * Katz, 00 **<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">(Eric Katz, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program, New Jersey Institute of Technology; recognized pioneer, environmental ethics, 2K, Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community)

The cyborg solves binaries and becomes a political tool for liberation
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 17.33px;">Miyake, 4 <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.66px;">– PhD in Gender and Woman’s studies (Esperanza, Journal of International Women's Studies March 2004 “My, is that Cyborg a little bit Queer?”)//gingE

====A singular feminist identity is a tool of masculinity that ultimately allow the subordination of women, which also allows for environmental exploitation. The figure of the cyborg is one that rejects the contrived “unity” of the feminist subject==== <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 17.33px;">Haraway, 91 <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8px;">- Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California (Donna, “A Cyborg Manifesto Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp 149-181 http://www.egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway/articles/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto/)//gingE

Self examination and internal questioning is a prerequisite to deconstructing patriarchy
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 17.33px;">Helford, ‘92 <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8px;">(Elyce Rae, Science Fiction Studies is a refereed scholarly journal devoted to the study of the genre of science fiction “"We Are Only Seeking Man": Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris"” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 http://www.jstor.org.proxy.lib.umich.edu/stable/pdfplus/4240149.pdf?acceptTC=true) //GY