Alternative energy methods should be proposed with total costs

I will offer a counter plan to the resolution. Instead of proposing them with total costs, I will advocate we should claim they cost 3545467.5 times as much as they do now. This is mutually exclusive with affirming as clearly you cannot propose it with total costs and propose it with 3545467.5 times as much costs at the same time. This is beneficial because prices this high will mean people will continue to rely on fossil fuels and thus contribute to global warming. Global warming is good because: A) Warming is good in that warming promotes peace and stability: Warmer is better- history proves it facilitates peace. Idso et al. , Ph. D Soil Science, 11/16/05 (Sherwood, Keith and Craig Idso, "War and Social Unrest- Summary" . http://www.co2science.org... 7/20/08) Craig Idso 1 writes "What is the connection between rising air temperatures and CO2 concentrations and social stability? Zhang et al. (2005) note that historians typically identify political, economic, cultural and ethnic unrest as the chief causes of war and civil strife. However, the five Chinese scientists argue that climate plays a key role as well; and to examine their thesis, they compared proxy climate records with historical data on wars, social unrest and dynastic transitions in China from the late Tang to Qing Dynasties (mid-9th century to early 20th century). This work revealed that war frequencies, peak war clusters, nationwide periods of social unrest and dynastic transitions were all significantly associated with cold phases of China's oscillating climate. More specifically, all three distinctive peak war clusters (defined as more than 50 wars in a 10-year period) occurred during cold climatic phases, as did all seven periods of nationwide social unrest and nearly 90 percent of all dynastic changes that decimated this largely agrarian society. As a result, they concluded that climate change was "one of the most important factors in determining the dynastic cycle and alternation of war and peace in ancient China," with warmer climates having been immensely more effective than cooler climates in terms of helping to "keep the peace. "" End quote. War and disrupting society must be stopped at all costs due to the fact that in todays world people don't just go stab each other with pitch forks we have nuclear weapons. This is important because: 1) We have already several times come close to nuclear war and there are many countries that keep their fingers on the trigger, and who knows what this extra crises could do? 2) This isn't just a few more wars, the statistics show that almost 90% of all major wars and zones of dynastic change happened during cold periods. Furthermore this outweighs on magnitude as nuclear war would destroy all possible life on the planet as it is toxic to everything and is not limited or prevented by factors like height and is not survivable. T. E. Bearden affirms: T. E. Bearden LTC U. S. Army (ret) Director of Association of Distinguished American Scientists and Fellow Emeritus, Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study, The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly, 6-24-2k, . http://www.seaspower.com... History bears out that desperate nations take desperate actions. " As an example, suppose a starving North Korea launches nuclear weapons upon Japan and South Korea, including U. S. forces there, in a spasmodic suicidal response. Or suppose a desperate China, whose long-range nuclear missiles (some) can reach the United States, attacks Taiwan. In addition to immediate responses, the mutual treaties involved in such scenarios will quickly draw other nations into the conflict, escalating it significantly. Strategic nuclear studies have shown for decades that, under such extreme stress conditions, once a few nukes are launched, adversaries and potential adversaries are then compelled to launch on perception of preparations by one's adversary. The real legacy of the MAD concept is this side of the MAD coin that is almost never discussed. Without effective defense, the only chance a nation has to survive at all is to launch immediate full-bore pre-emptive strikes and try to take out its perceived foes as rapidly and massively as possible. As the studies showed, rapid escalation to full WMD exchange occurs. " Thus nuclear war on any level results in an infinite chain of escalation till extinction occurs. B) Without increases global warming the world will lapse into famine. Keith and creig idso write Idso, Craig and Keith (Ex-Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, and Ph. D. in Geography from Arizona State University. PhD in Botany from Arizona State University. "Biofuels as religious fodder" . http://www.co2science.org...) 1/30/2008 "Borlaug notes, for example, that "for the foreseeable future, plants - especially the cereals - will continue to supply much of our increased food demand, both for direct human consumption and as livestock feed to satisfy the rapidly growing demand for meat in the newly industrializing countries. " In fact, he states that "the demand for cereals will probably grow by 50% over the next 20 years and even larger harvests will be needed if more grain is diverted to produce biofuels. " Noting that most food increases of the future "will have to come from lands already in productio]," and that "70% of global water withdrawals are for irrigating agricultural lands," Borlaug's facts suggest that crop water use efficiency (biomass produced per unit of water used) will have to be increased dramatically if we are to meet humanity's food needs of the future without creating the disastrous consequences he outlines above; and it should be evident to all but those most blinded to the truth that this requirement can only be met if biofuels are not a part of the picture, while the aerial fertilization and anti-transpiration effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment are. Although Borlaug notes that conventional plant breeding, improvements in crop management, tillage, fertilization, and weed and pest control, as well as genetic engineering, will help significantly in this regard, we will in all likelihood need the beneficial biological byproducts of concomitant increases in the atmosphere's CO2 concentration in addition. Without them, to borrow a chilling phrase from Borlaug, "efforts to halt global poverty will grind to a halt," and much of the world of nature will be no longer. " End quote. Thus famines are an inventible outcome since grain is a staple food of most of the world and so the amount of grain feeding the world would be so far behind the need that there would be millions of starving people. This outweighs on probability as global warming has no exact known effects while poverty while idso explains that the grain production MUST increase by 50% over the next 20 years if it wants to remain anywhere near the demand, and this is unrealistic in our situation now. Therefore the sole workable solution that can possibly be effective and possible to afford is to increase CO2 levels.