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-====Worldwide emissions are declining due to decreased fossil fuel consumption but we're on the brink==== |
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-**Vaughan '15** (Adam, The Guardian, "Global emissions to fall for first time during a period of economic growth," 12/7, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/07/global-emissions-to-fall-for-first-time-during-a-period-of-economic-growth) OS |
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-Worldwide greenhouse gas emissions will fall in 2015, researchers have said, in what |
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-Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia and author on the paper. |
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-====Japan proves – nuclear substitutes will increase emissions==== |
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-**Korosec 11** |
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-KIRSTEN KOROSEC, Fortune journalism, "Germany's Nuclear Ban: The Global Effect" Money Watch, May 31, 2011, 4:28 PM http://www.cbsnews.com/news/germanys-nuclear-ban-the-global-effect/ ~~Premier~~ |
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-Japan also has ditched plans to build 14 more reactors. The power capacity lost |
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-allow ~~nuclear~~ it to completely replace the lost nuclear power capacity. |
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-====Nuclear is the best solution to climate change—every alternative fails—future tech solves squo shortcomings==== |
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-**Cohen 2012** |
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-~~Armond, Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force, 2-13, "Decarbonization: The Nuclear Option," http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/02/is-america-poised-for-nuclear.php?print=trueandprintcomment=2161670~~ |
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-Three years ago, MIT's Richard Lester published a simple analysis of what would be |
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-power, despite its genuine challenges, cannot be left off the table. |
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-====Coal destroys the poor working class in America==== |
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-**Fox 5** Julia Fox ~~University of Oregon~~"Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone" Leslie King, Deborah McCarthy, 2005. Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action http://books.google.com/books?id=ol2b0nmgGwECanddq |
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-Historically, West Virginia is a state that has been controlled by coal interests. |
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-this apparent increase in efficiency lie human and ecological costs that are incalculable. |
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-====Climate change disproportionately harms people of color – status quo regulations are racist and fail==== |
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-**Burkett, 8** Maxine, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School, J.D., University of California, Berkeley, "Just Solutions to Climate Change: A Climate Justice Proposal for a Domestic Clean Development Mechanism," Buffalo Law Review Vol. 56, ALB |
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-The weighty and unequal toll that climate change is wreaking on the global poor is |
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-in making the nation‟s first comprehensive climate policy a just one. |