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+Warming is getting worse - we need to cut emissions or we’ll cross a critical threshold. |
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+Harvey 13 Fiona, Guardian Environment Reporter, IPCC climate report: human impact is 'unequivocal', September 27 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-report-un-secretary-general |
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+World leaders must…before taking climate |
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+Extinction |
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+Nuclear energy solves climate change and decrease air pollution – outweighs any externalities. |
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+Jogalekar ’13 *bracketed*: (Ashutosh Jogalekar. “Nuclear power may have saved 1.8 million lives otherwise lost to fossil fuels, may save up to 7 million more.” Scientific American. April 2, 2013//FT) |
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+Nuclear power is…be remembered for. |
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+Nuclear power supplies 11 of the world’s electricity – prohibiting would be a huge increase in yearly emissions. |
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+WNA ’16 bracketed: (World Nuclear Association, “Plans For New Reactors Worldwide,” April 2016 http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx) |
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+Today there are…generating capacity increased. |
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+~-~-- Warming = multiple util impacts |
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+A 4 degree increase turns every impact- we won’t be able to adapt |
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+Roberts 13 (David, citing the World Bank Review’s compilation of climate studies, “If you aren’t alarmed about climate, you aren’t paying attention” http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-alarmism-the-idea-is-surreal/) |
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+We know we’ve…every passing decade. |
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+~-~-- Warming = Environmental Injustice |
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+Climate change disproportionately affects people of color and causes extinction. |
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+Pellow ‘12: (David Naguib Pellow 12, 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…the global North. |