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The United States federal government should demonstrate federally regulated Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
1AC advantage #1 Scarcity

First, land based agriculture collapse is inevitable - the ocean is the farmland of the future, but we can only cultivate it with OTEC.
Muralidharan 2012 (Shylesh Master of Science in Engineering and Management at Pondicherry University – Mechanical Engineering school. “Assessment of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion” 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Archives.pdf .accessed 6/29/14 .nt //Marine food production is a potential by-product of OTEC power plants// //(first)// This valuable by-product can be cultured in open systems near the surface or in closed systems with pens and fences. (last)

Extinction
Brown 9 (Lester R, Founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute “Can Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” Scientific American, May, [] (first) The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food(last), their fall will threaten the stability of global civilization itself.

Moreover, Fish resources are shrinking – shortages cause Asian Wars
Cribb 10(Julian Cribb is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is former Director, National Awareness for CSIRO and Science Editor of The Australian newspaper. He was national foundation president of the Australian Science Communicators (ASC), president of the National Rural and Resources Press Club, a member of CSIRO advisory committees for agriculture, fisheries and entomology. He has served as a Director of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), the Crawford Fund, the Secretariat for International Landcare, CSIRO Publishing, the Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation and the National Science and Technology Centre, Questacon. He was the creator of “Future Harvest” the global public awareness campaign for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Cribb, Julian. “Coming Famine : The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It.” Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2010. 22-3. ebrary collections. Ghs-kw) ( first) a category of international conflict that is taking place constantly under our noses (last)

Asian War triggers all other impacts
Cirincione 2k (Joseph Cirincione, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment, 2000, http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:CP43qq0CraIJ:www.ceip.org/files/Publications/AsianNuclearChain.asp%3Fp%3D8+%22The+blocks+would%22+and+%22weapon+since+1945%22&hl=en) (first) The blocks would fall quickest and hardest in Asia, where proliferation pressures are already building more quickly than anywhere else in the world.(last) The blocks would fall quickest and hardest in Asia, where proliferation pressures are already building more quickly than anywhere else in the world.

And, Food and freshwater scarcity are inevitable absent the plan. OTEC solves
Muralidharan 2012 (Shylesh Master of Science in Engineering and Management at Pondicherry University – Mechanical Engineering school. “Assessment of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion” 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Archives.pdf .accessed 6/29/14 .nt) (first) As per a UNICEF report [5], one of mankind's most serious challenges in the 2 Is1 century will be a lack of adequate fresh water supply. (last) sources of power, solve freshwater and food issues and create additional jobs.

Extinction
Weiner ‘90 (Jonathan, Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth, p. 214) (First) deeper, (last) than global warming .”

Warming is happening and is anthropogenic---reject negative evidence
(Donald R. Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology, 3-1-2012, "How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused," Skeptic, 17.2, EBSCO)
 * Prothero 12**
 * (first)** __How do we know that global warming is real and(last)__ : __the temperature increase is real__

Reducing emissions now prevents extinction---it’s not too late to solve
Nuccitelli 12 – Dana, environmental scientist at a private environmental consulting firm in Sacramento and has a Bachelor's Degree in astrophysics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master's Degree in physics from the University of California at Davis, 2012, “Realistically What Might The Future Climate Look Like?”, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/01/784931/realistically-what-might-the-future-climate-look-like/ (First) Reducing Emissions is Critical(last) //damage.//

Warming causes extinction
Deibel 7 (Terry L, Professor of IR @ National War College, “Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft”, Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today) (first)__ there is ____ one major existential threat (last) on this planet. __

And, CO2 emissions will destroy the ocean - causes extinction
Sify, Citing Professors @ University of Queensland and North Carolina, 10 (Sify News, Citing Ove Hoegh-Gulberg, Professor @ University of Queensland and Director of the Global Change Institute AND Citing John Bruno, Associate Professor of Marine Science @ UNC, “Could unbridled climate changes lead to human extinction?,” June 19th, []) (first) how growing concentrations (last) to fail’ __The__ [|__fourth IPCC assessment report__] __is easier to move a light vapour than a heavy liquid.__
 * Alternative methods of solving warming fail – OTEC is our last stand to reverse climate change**
 * Baird ’14** (Jim, B.S. Chemistry, Owner at Global Warming Mitigation Method, “The Existential Imperative: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion II”, The energy collective, Jan 6th, 2014 http://theenergycollective.com/jim-baird/324161/existential-imperative-ocean-thermal-energy-conversion-ii, //wcp//)

And, it Sequesters Carbon
Muralidharan 2012 (Shylesh Master of Science in Engineering and Management at Pondicherry University – Mechanical Engineering school. “Assessment of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion” 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Archives.pdf .accessed 6/29/14 .nt) 7.2.Upwelling of nutrient-rich deep ocean unintended consequences. (Hans Krock, PhD. professor emeritus in Ocean Engineering at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and president of OCEES and CTO at DSH. Krock, H. J. Huang, J. C. Oney, S. K. “Revisit Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion System,” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 171-2. July 2, 2003. [] ) __Perhaps the largest contribution__ __and it is easier to move a light vapour than a heavy liquid.__
 * And, OTEC is k2 solve for the hydrogen economy**
 * Krock et al. 03**

That independently solves extinction
__Creating a whole new economy__ __displacement of current oil sources by hydrogen.__
 * Gresser and Cusumano 05** (Julian, is an international attorney, negotiator, inventor, and recognized expert on environmental law, a professor at MIT and Harvard Law, a senior consultant to the U.S. State Department, The World Bank, The Prime Minister's Office of Japan, The People's Republic of China, and the European Commission and the founder of the GII, James A, April, PhD in physical chemistry, pursuing business studies at Harvard and Stanford, and receiving a fellowship at Churchill College at Cambridge University, he served as a research scientist and then Director of Catalysis R&D for Exxon, “Hydrogen and the New Energy Economy: Why We Need an Apollo Mission for Clean Energy”, [] ) //CBC

Regulatory // Certainty //and // Clarity //is key – No federal action deters investors
(Carolyn, November 19th, “Proposed Strategies for Addressing Regulatory Uncertainty in Ocean Energy Development in the United States”, [], //wcp//) energy, one
 * Elefant ‘2**
 * __from funding projects.__**

And, a U.S. FEDERAL demonstration is necessary to get the market going
__The major conclusion__
 * Vega ’10** (Luis A. PhD, National Marine Renewable Energy Center at the University of Hawaii, ‘Economics of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC): An Update’, http://hinmrec.hnei.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/OTEC-Economics-2010.pdf, //wcp//)
 * __is implemented__**