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=***MEX RENEWABLES***=

=Plan=

**The United States Federal Government should provide renewable energy assistance to Mexico.**
=Advantage 1 is Relations=

**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 (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 … 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 The U.S.-Mexico relationship is … strategic allies in ¶ the hemisphere.

**SEQUENCING is vital – CLIMATE cooperation FIRST spills over to the rest of relations**
Donnelly 10 – __#|Program__ Associate, Mexico Institute @ Wilson Center (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 development. It is a problem for the United … adequate // export-import __#|financing__ //.

**US-Mexico climate cooperation prevents Latin skirmishes from escalating to war**
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 (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 …shared interests and responsibilities.

**Latin American wars go global**
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 While there were economic motivations … be discussed in the next chapter.

**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 Sharing a 2,000-mile border and …health, environment, and energy issues.

**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// // Terrorism remains a serious … soil ¶ into a // weapon of mass destruction //.

**Nuclear war**
Ayson 10 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33.7, InformaWorld)//BB But these two nuclear worlds—a …probably still meet with a devastating response.

=Advantage 2 is Warming=

**Global warming is real and human induced – 97% climate scientists agree**
Anderegg et al 10 – PhD Candidate @ Stanford in Biology (William, “Expert credibility in climate change,” National Academy of Sciences, p. 12107-12109)//BB Preliminary reviews of scientific literature … regarding anthropogenic climate change.

**Experts agree – fast action now can avert extinction**
__The world has warmed since__ … __transition from one state to another.__
 * Guterl 12** – Executive Editor of Scientific American, expert in Climate and Environment, Science Policy, citing James Hanson, a NASA scientist (Fred, “Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could Quickly Run Amok”, 5/25/12; < http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-worlds-weather-could-quickly-run-amok>)//Beddow

**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 … ¶ // capacitated // and // experienced program manager //.

**First – production – they have ENORMOUS renewable energy potential**
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 The North American context ¶ The North … sector ¶ development of renewable resources

**Second – technology transfer – 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, …increasing North American energy trade.”

**Third – international cooperation – 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 (Shannon, “Mexico Makes It: A Transformed Society, Economy, and Government,” Foreign Affairs, 92.2)//BB// // If Mexico addresses these challenges, … trade, and // climate change accords //.

**Warming kills agriculture – turns war and overcomes all defense. Adaptation can’t solve.**

 * Zhang et al 07** – professor of geography at University of Hong Kong/ Peter Brecke from Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Tech/others (David D., “Global Climate Change, War, and Population Decline in Recent Human History”, 10/23/07; < http://www.pnas.org/content/104/49/19214.full#aff-1>)//Beddow

**Emissions causes ocean acidification – extinction.**
=Advantage 3 is Economy=
 * Romm 12** – physicist and climate expert, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress (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/>)//Beddow

**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// //Despite its many virtues, however, …// economic crisis // in the years ahead __.__

**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 … 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 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad)//BB Today, economic and fiscal trends pose … make aggressive moves in their regions.

**Economic decline breaks down cooperation and leads to war – heg decline, falling trade, rising protectionism, and diversionary tactics.**
The counterargument to contagion is …debate and deserves more attention.
 * Royal 10**– Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction Policy, US-Department of Defense, policy advisor (Jedidiah, “Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives”, pg. 212-214; Print.)//Beddow

=Solvency=

**US financing and expertise specifically 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 Over the last 15 years, … ¶ comparatively stagnated due to lack of funds.

**An expanded BECC role quickly facilitates a Mexican green economy**
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// //SECTION 4: BECC – THE BORDER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE …// technical assistance // in the focus sectors.

**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 Investors seeking opportunities … investment in renewable¶ energy projects.

**Renewables solve quickly – outside expertise is key**
Carus 13 - UK journalist, 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 … the installation of potential gas pipelines,” said Hanhausen.

=*Border Infrastructure*=

Plan - The United States federal government should substantially increase its United States - Mexico North American Development Bank border transportation infrastructure investment.
= Manufacturing = //** ¶ ** U.S.-Mexico trade has grown to … will be waiting at the border. //
 * Status quo manufacturing fails – border congestion prevents efficient process – NADBank is key to solve**
 * Hendricks 12 – Staff Writer for My San Antonio newspaper** (David, http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/business_columnists/david_hendricks/article/Choked-border-crossings-need-this-bill-3705492.php, Choked border crossings need this bill”, JULY 13, 2012) //KT//

//**Increasing border infrastructure boosts American manufacturing – integrated manufacturing and economic structure**// //**Leone 12 – Staff Writer for Cronkite News** (“Panel says U.S.-Mexico border issues hinder huge economic opportunities”, Friday, June 1, 2012¶ By CHRISTOPHER LEONE ¶ Cronkite News, http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2012/06/panel-says-u-s-mexico-border-issues-hinder-huge-economic-opportunities/) //KT WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Mexico border … //economy is now structured,//” he said.

**1. Manufacturing capabilities key to technology necessary for U.S. deterrence – This solves every scenario of war**
O’Hanlon et al 12 (Mackenzie Eaglen, American Enterprise Institute Rebecca Grant, IRIS Research Robert P. Haffa, Haffa Defense Consulting Michael O'Hanlon, The Brookings Institution Peter W. Singer, The Brookings Institution Martin Sullivan, Commonwealth Consulting Barry Watts, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments “The Arsenal of Democracy and How to Preserve It: Key Issues in Defense Industrial Policy January 2012,” pg online @ [] //um-ef) The current wave of defense cuts is also …__ U __ nited __ S __ tates __ in a globalized marketplace __.

**2. Manufacturing base key to prevent Chinese Leadership in nanotech and ensure U.S. Leadership**
Manufacturing and Technology News 5 (“Lack of Manufacturing Base Imperils U.S. Lead in Nanotechnology” pg online @ [] //um-ef) __ Nanotech __ nology, __ often touted as a __…__ of technologies that we can here." __

Chinese Leadership guarantees extinction
Navrozov 4 (Winner of the Albert Einstein Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievements, “The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology ‘Plans Ahead’   “We at the Center for the Survival …**__ is better than the nano annihilation..” __**

** 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// // Despite its many virtues, however, …// economic crisis // in the years ahead __. __//

//U.S. & Mexico’s Highly Complementary … __create and sustain jobs in both countries.__//
 * And, Declining border infrastructure kills the auto industry – the plan is key**
 * Figueroa et. al, 11 – Research and Policy Analyst, NACTS** (Alejandro, with Erik Lee, Associate Director, NACTS, Rick Van Schoik, Director, NACTS (“Realizing the Full Value of Crossborder Trade with Mexico,” North American Center for Transborder Studies at ASU, 12/9/11,http://21stcenturyborder.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/realizing-the-value-of-crossborder-trade-with-mexico2.pdf) //KT//


 * We will isolate two internal links: **


 * First is trade—Trade from Mexico is set to skyrocket now, but it is hampered by lack of border transportation infrastructure **
 * USA Today 5-2-13 ( ** [] //JC)

MEXICO CITY — Delivery trucks from … things down and raise expenses for businesses.


 * Trade is key to the economy – it increases economic efficiency and lowers labor and supply costs **


 * Fernholz 2013 ** [Tim, covers state, business and society for Quartz, “Is it time to bring Canada, Mexico and the US into one common market?”, Quartz, March 14, 2013, [], accessed July 17, 2013]

__ What if the answer to America’s economic … __ agenda, why not just cut to the chase?

**Second is competitiveness—North America is situated for strong economic growth – the plan is key lock it in and ensure competitiveness** At a time when __Mexico is poised to__ … long and there is much work to do.
 * Wilson, 13 **** – Christopher, associate with the Mexico Institute (“New Ideas for a New Era: Policy Options for the Next Stage in U.S.-Mexico Relations,” Wilson Center, January 2013, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/new_ideas_us_mexico_relations.pdf)

** 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 http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259024/economy-and-national-security-zalmay-khalilzad)//BB Today, economic and fiscal trends … moves in their regions.

** These wars go nuclear **
Harris and Burrows 9 - *Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC), **Jennifer, a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” [])//BB Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course, the … in a more dog-eat-dog world.

=Water=

**Status quo water resource is dwindling and polluted**
**Lustgarten 13**, (Abrahm, AbrahmLustgarten writes about energy, water, climate change and anything else having to do with the environment. Before coming to ProPublica in 2008, he was a staff writer and contributor for Fortune, and has written for Wired, Salon, Esquire, the Washington Post and the New York Times., “Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink”, Propublica, 1/25/13, ¶ [], Accessed 7/16/13) "Around the world people are increasingly … U.S. pollutes them at its peril.


 * More investment is required in environmental infrastructure – Status quo funding is insufficient **
 * Espinosa 12 ,** Salvador P, Scholar and consultant specializing in fiscal decentralization, public financial management and infrastructure finance. Extensive experience working with state and municipal governments in Mexico and the United States. Highly trained in quantitative and qualitative analytical methods with a solid background in economic theory (2012, “Financing Border Environmental Infrastructure: Where are We? Where to from Here?,” Diego State University, http://www.scerp.org/pubs/m16/Chap.%2015,%20Espinosa%20P.%20393-412.pdf)

The challenges that the border region… __ environmental infrastructure?¶ __

 * NADBank is uniquely key – 2 reasons: **

Graduate Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Department, UCSB, Mexican water studies in the Mexico-US borderlands, 2012, Reviewer for: American Anthropologist, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Food and Foodways, Signos, Nueva Antropología, Region y Sociedad, Ciencia Ergo Sum, Journal of American History, Environment and Planning, University of California, Water infrastructures in the U.S./Mexico borderlands, ESA Journals, 07-18-13] Groundwater is a particularly obvious lacuna …infrastructure such as water treatment plants.
 * First - Only NADBank can get both sides to discuss binational water resources **
 * Walsh 12 –** Qualifications [Casey, President, Political Ecology Society (PESO),Editor, Journal of Political Ecology

Kourous 2k (directs the IRC's BIOC program, Writer, Editor & Senior Program Associate at International Relations Center (IRC)) October 2000 “The Great NADBank Debate” ProQuest "Stretching" the Mandate vs. Revising It¶ Many … **__lacking basic environmental infrastructure."¶__**
 * Second – NADBank is key to invest in environmental infrastructure **


 * We will isolate two impacts: **

Homer-Dixon 98 (Thomas, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Programme – University of Toronto, World Security Challenges for a New Century, p. 342-343) Another possibility is that global … and undermining possibilities for cooperation. ** Second is water scarcity — ** ** Water shortages cause global warming, drought, decreased biodiversity and extinction ** Marlow 1 (Maude, Spring) National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and IFG Committee on the Globalization of Water. “BLUE GOLD: The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification … desertification and, eventually, "global collapse."
 * First, is resource wars— Water scarcity collapses cooperation and sparks global resource wars**

=Solvency=

**Mexico will say yes - Plan’s a success for Nieto and public want it**

 * Navarrette, 11/26/12** (Ruben, “To-Do List for Obama and Mexico's New President,” CNN, @http://pvangels.com/news-mexico/4362/to-do-list-for-obama-and-mexicos-new-president ) **Red**

__ ¶ ____ The boom times are a __… of support up front and afterward.”
 * TimeFrame is extremely quick-- Mexico provides a "soft landing" for businesses to start up quickly **
 * Mecham, 2013, Northern California Bureau Chief ** . [ Michael, congressional correspondent and space/science writer for the Gannett News Service, B.A. in political science from Claremont Men's College, M.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington,' D.C.Mexico’s Welcome Mat Attracts Aerospace Manufacturers', Aviation Week, April 01, 2013, http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_04_01_2013_p44-562383.xml&p=5, 7/16/13

** The plan solves - expanding NADBank investments to border infrastructure allows for NADBank enhancement and avoids political backlash **

 * Balido, 11 ** – Nelson, president of the Border Trade Alliance (“Bill to expand NADBank projects holds potential to make big impact for border,” Border Trade Alliance, http://www.thebta.org/btanews/bill-to-expand-nadbank-projects-holds-potential-to-make-big-impact-for-border.html#top)

But Congress and the White House … of both the U.S. and Mexico.