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+====A is the uniqueness: currently, nuclear power is currently the only feasible, non-carbon based energy production. Hansen 15:==== |
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+James Hansen (adjunct professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia), Kerry Emanuel (professor of meteorology at MIT), Ken Caldeira and Tom Wigley. "Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change." The Guardian. December 3, 2015. JY. |
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+https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/03 |
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+letting go of long-held biases when it comes to nuclear power. |
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+====B is the link==== |
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+====Empirical evidence shows that banning nuclear energy leads to an increase in fossil fuels for energy production. Impact is huge. McDonald 1==== |
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+**McDonald, Michael. "Germany's Nuclear Cutback Is Darkening European Skies ~| OilPrice.com." OilPrice.com. OilPrice, 6 May 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.** |
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+Germany's influence in Europe is unquestionable, but it appears that some of its neighbors |
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+grid battery industry is still too nascent to provide serious help to Germany. |
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+====And for Europe especially the only option is US coal. McDonald 2==== |
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+**McDonald, Michael. "Germany's Nuclear Cutback Is Darkening European Skies ~| OilPrice.com." OilPrice.com. OilPrice, 6 May 2015. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.** |
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+In Europe though, in part because of concerns about fracking, much of the |
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+realistic option; a fact which some German politicians are starting to admit. |
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+**====C is the impact: continued use of carbon-based fuels causes warming. Gertz:====** |
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+Emily Gertz, "CLIMATOLOGIST: NUCLEAR POWER ONLY WAY TO CURB CLIMATE DISRUPTION, Popular Science, 12/12/13. http://www.popsci.com/article/science/climatologist-nuclear-power-only-way-curb-climate-disruption |
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+Polluters must pay for their carbon dioxide emissions, and nuclear energy must expand, |
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+believes would largely solve environmental and safety problems that have spooked the public. |
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+====Warming disproportionately affects people of color, the global south, and women worldwide while they contribute least to emissions.==== |
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+(David Naguib, Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota, "Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice," February 2012, http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf) |
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+It is now known unequivocally that significant warming of the atmosphere is occurring, coinciding |
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+AND |
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+must reduce our emissions and consumption here at home in the global North. |
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+====Reducing emissions disproportionately benefits people of color in the US.==== |
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+**Jay and Boyce 12 **~~Paul, and James Boyce. "20,000 People a Year Die From Effects of Fossil Fuel Generation." The Real News Network. N.p., 05 Dec. 2012. Web. 17 Sept. 2016.~~ |
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+JAY: Well, what about coal? Because coal seems to be at the |
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+of this pollution. So there's a really good argument. Go ahead. |