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	1	+Counterplan Text: The United States Federal Government in conjunction with the indigenous nations ought to prohibit production of nuclear power with the exception of traveling wave technology reactors and small modular reactors.
	2	+SMR’s and TWTR’s are vital to stop Chinese energy leadership
	3	+Palley 12— Reece Palley - author of many books and articles, including The Answer: Why Only Mini Nuclear Power Plants Can Save the World. The London School of Economics 1949-52 and The School for Social Research 1945-49; January 20, 2012 (“U.S. cedes the lead on nuclear energy”, Available Online at http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-20/news/30647588_1_nuclear-reactors-nuclear-energy-nuclear-waste)
	4	+Recent news that Gates has been meeting with the Chinese about traveling wave technology is particularly ominous. This could help put China at the forefront of a new industry and leave the United States, in nuclear terms, a banana republic.
	5	+The Chinese lack the contentious, partisan political structure that prevents some alternative technologies from growing in the United States. One is reminded of Mao's injunction to "let a hundred flowers blossom," which is still the Chinese government's attitude toward technological innovation. With this approach, and no need to contend with uninformed public opinion or political bickering, China threatens to rapidly outpace America in developing tomorrow's means of energy production.
	6	+In the 1980s, I went to China to help build factories for the manufacture of fiberglass luxury yachts. The Chinese started from absolute scratch, never having even seen a fiberglass yacht, yet in relatively short order, they were exporting million-dollar boats. If they start applying this kind of innovative energy to the construction and export of small, modular nuclear reactors, the world will cease to look to America for energy solutions. The Chinese, standing on the shoulders of half a century of American ingenuity, will inherit the leadership of the world's most vital industry.
	7	+Green leadership solves extinction – tech spills over and reduces geopolitical confrontation
	8	+Klarevas 11 –Louis Klarevas, Professor for Center for Global Affairs @ New York University, May 25, 2011, ("Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony," http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html)IG
	9	+By not addressing climate change more aggressively and creatively, the United States is squandering an opportunity to secure its global primacy for the next few generations to come. To do this, though, the U.S. must rely on innovation to help the world escape the coming environmental meltdown. Developing the key technologies that will save the planet from global warming will allow the U.S. to outmaneuver potential great power rivals seeking to replace it as the international system’s hegemon. But the greening of American strategy must occur soon.
	10	+The U.S., however, seems to be stuck in time, unable to move beyond oil-centric geo-politics in any meaningful way.
	11	+Often, the gridlock is portrayed as a partisan difference, with Republicans resisting action and Democrats pleading for action.
	12	+This, though, is an unfair characterization as there are numerous proactive Republicans and quite a few reticent Democrats.
	13	+The real divide is instead one between realists and liberals.
	14	+Students of realpolitik, which still heavily guides American foreign policy, largely discount environmental issues as they are not seen as advancing national interests in a way that generates relative power advantages vis-à-vis the other major powers in the system: Russia, China, Japan, India, and the European Union.
	15	+Liberals, on the other hand, have recognized that global warming might very well become the greatest challenge ever faced by mankind. As such, their thinking often eschews narrowly defined national interests for the greater global good. This, though, ruffles elected officials whose sworn obligation is, above all, to protect and promote American national interests.
	16	+What both sides need to understand is that by becoming a lean, mean, green fighting machine, the U.S. can actually bring together liberals and realists to advance a collective interest which benefits every nation, while at the same time, securing America’s global primacy well into the future.
	17	+To do so, the U.S. must re-invent itself as not just your traditional hegemon, but as history’s first ever green hegemon.
	18	+Hegemons are countries that dominate the international system - bailing out other countries in times of global crisis, establishing and maintaining the most important international institutions, and covering the costs that result from free-riding and cheating global obligations. Since 1945, that role has been the purview of the United States.
	19	+Immediately after World War II, Europe and Asia laid in ruin, the global economy required resuscitation, the countries of the free world needed security guarantees, and the entire system longed for a multilateral forum where global concerns could be addressed. The U.S., emerging the least scathed by the systemic crisis of fascism’s rise, stepped up to the challenge and established the postwar (and current) liberal order.
	20	+But don’t let the world “liberal” fool you. While many nations benefited from America’s new-found hegemony, the U.S. was driven largely by “realist” selfish national interests. The liberal order first and foremost benefited the U.S.
	21	+With the U.S. becoming bogged down in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, running a record national debt, and failing to shore up the dollar, the future of American hegemony now seems to be facing a serious contest: potential rivals - acting like sharks smelling blood in the water - wish to challenge the U.S. on a variety of fronts. This has led numerous commentators to forecast the U.S.’s imminent fall from grace.
	22	+Not all hope is lost however.
	23	+With the impending systemic crisis of global warming on the horizon, the U.S. again finds itself in a position to address a transnational problem in a way that will benefit both the international community collectively and the U.S. selfishly.
	24	+The current problem is two-fold. First, the competition for oil is fueling animosities between the major powers. The geopolitics of oil has already emboldened Russia in its ‘near abroad’ and China in far-off places like Africa and Latin America. As oil is a limited natural resource, a nasty zero-sum contest could be looming on the horizon for the U.S. and its major power rivals - a contest which threatens American primacy and global stability.
	25	+Second, converting fossil fuels like oil to run national economies is producing irreversible harm in the form of carbon dioxide emissions. So long as the global economy remains oil-dependent, greenhouse gases will continue to rise. Experts are predicting as much as a 60 increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the next twenty-five years. That likely means more devastating water shortages, droughts, forest fires, floods, and storms.
	26	+In other words, if global competition for access to energy resources does not undermine international security, global warming will. And in either case, oil will be a culprit for the instability.
	27	+Oil arguably has been the most precious energy resource of the last half-century. But “black gold” is so 20th century. The key resource for this century will be green gold - clean, environmentally-friendly energy like wind, solar, and hydrogen power. Climate change leaves no alternative. And the sooner we realize this, the better off we will be.
	28	+What Washington must do in order to avoid the traps of petropolitics is to convert the U.S. into the world’s first-ever green hegemon.
	29	+For starters, the federal government must drastically increase investment in energy and environmental research and development (EandE RandD). This will require a serious sacrifice, committing upwards of $40 billion annually to EandE RandD - a far cry from the few billion dollars currently being spent.
	30	+By promoting a new national project, the U.S. could develop new technologies that will assure it does not drown in a pool of oil. Some solutions are already well known, such as raising fuel standards for automobiles; improving public transportation networks; and expanding nuclear and wind power sources. Others, however, have not progressed much beyond the drawing board: batteries that can store massive amounts of solar (and possibly even wind) power; efficient and cost-effective photovoltaic cells, crop-fuels, and hydrogen-based fuels; and even fusion.
	31	+Such innovations will not only provide alternatives to oil, they will also give the U.S. an edge in the global competition for hegemony. If the U.S. is able to produce technologies that allow modern, globalized societies to escape the oil trap, those nations will eventually have no choice but to adopt such technologies. And this will give the U.S. a tremendous economic boom, while simultaneously providing it with means of leverage that can be employed to keep potential foes in check.

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	1	+2016-09-11 04:17:35.497

Judge

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	1	+BH

Opponent

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	1	+Palo Alto

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	1	+1

Round

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	1	+3

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	1	+Palos Verdes Gaur Neg

Title

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	1	+SEPTOCT - CP - US TWTR and SMR

Tournament

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	1	+Loyola