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	1	+==Part A is the Uniqueness==
	2	+
	3	+
	4	+====We can solve for global warming by decarbonizing by 2050.====
	5	+**Nuccitelli '16**
	6	+Nuccitelli, Dana. "Climate Urgency: We've Locked in More Global Warming than People Realize ~| Dana Nuccitelli." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 15 Aug. 2016. Web. 19 Aug. 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/aug/15/climate-urgency-weve-locked-in-more-global-warming-than-people-realize.
	7	+So far humans have caused about 1°C warming of global surface temperatures,
	8	+AND
	9	+the Australian Climate Commission, 31 major scientific organizations recently warned policymakers that:
	10	+
	11	+
	12	+====Nuclear power plays a significant role in achieving the 2050 2° C (2DS) objective====
	13	+**NEA '15**
	14	+Nuclear Energy: Combating Climate Change. Issy-les-Moulineaux: OECD - NEA, 2015. PDF. https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/pubs/2015/7208-climate-change-2015.pdf
	15	+Despite these additional challenges, nuclear energy still remains a proven low-carbon source
	16	+AND
	17	+11 in 2011 to 17 in 2050 (see Figure 8).
	18	+
	19	+
	20	+==Part B is the link==
	21	+
	22	+
	23	+====Closing only 7 plants leads to 2 more CO2 emissions. Kern 16 says====
	24	+"As U.S. Nuclear Plants Close, Carbon Emissions Could Go Up". July 31 2016. Rebecca Kern. Accessed August 9 2016. http://www.bna.com/us-nuclear-plant-n73014445640/.~~Premier~~
	25	+
	26	+Total carbon emission increases as a result of the expected seven nuclear plant
	27	+AND
	28	+the plants, and operating them with such equipment as diesel backup generators.
	29	+
	30	+
	31	+====Australia empirically verifies coal tradeoff====
	32	+Ben Heard 12 ~~Masters of Corporate Environmental Sustainability Management, Monash University, 2007, environmental activist, Director of ThinkClimate Consulting~~, "That day in December: the story of nuclear prohibition in Australia", Decarbonise SA, 12 Sep 2012, BE
	33	+Since the prohibition of nuclear power, while nuclear build has taken off around the
	34	+AND
	35	+electricity production 18 higher since 1998 (Australian Greenhouse Emissions Information System).
	36	+
	37	+
	38	+====Plants close, emissions go up, even when the intent is to replace with renewables. Lovering et al 6/30 says====
	39	+"In Most Cases, Closing A Nuclear Plant Is All Pain And No Gain". June 30 2016. Amber Robson and Jessica Lovering. Accessed August 9 2016. https://medium.com/@ThirdWayTweet/in-mostcases-closing-a-nuclear-plant-is-all-pain-and-no-gain-135911655b8e~~#.c3dvjddji. ~~Premier~~
	40	+Recent history backs up this case, confirming that when nuclear plants close, total
	41	+AND
	42	+. If this is a race, fossil fuels are holding their own.
	43	+
	44	+
	45	+==Part C is the impact==
	46	+
	47	+
	48	+====STRUC VIOLENCE - Coal causes huge harms and environmental racism (turns case).====
	49	+GEP 15, "Environmental Racism in America: An Overview of the Environmental Justice Movement and the Role of Race in Environmental Policies", The Goldman Environmental Press, 24 Jun 2015, BE
	50	+The problem of racial profiling in America relates to more than just police brutality and
	51	+AND
	52	+living within three miles of the coal-fired power plants we visited."
	53	+
	54	+
	55	+====STRUC VIOLENCE - Warming causes racism, sexism and structural violence on a global scale. Pellow 12====
	56	+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
	57	+It is now known unequivocally that significant warming of the atmosphere is occurring, coinciding
	58	+AND
	59	+gender, and economic justice is inseparable from any effort to combat climate disruption
	60	+
	61	+
	62	+====Rises in CO2 creates bigger footprint, exacerbating climate change. **NEA '15====**
	63	+Thus, if the present nuclear energy capacity were to be banned and replaced by remaining technologies in the world's current energy mix, including fossil fuels as well as low-carbon sources such as hydro and other renewables, with an average footprint of 657 ~~grams of CO2 per kilowatt~~, global annual CO2 emissions from electricity supply would rise by 12. This would make the goal of decarbonising electricity supply an even more challenging and distant prospect. Expanding nuclear power, together with the increased use of hydro and other renewable energies as well as improved energy end-use efficiency, remains crucial for reducing CO2 emissions
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	65	+
	66	+=K=
	67	+
	68	+
	69	+==Framing==
	70	+Debate is first an educational activity. We engage in debate for its educational merit and because it challenges us to critically engage in discourse through meaningful argumentation.
	71	+
	72	+
	73	+====In order to reduce oppression, the educator's role should be to promote critical thinking with the student. Freire says:====
	74	+Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the oppressed. ~~New York~~: Herder and Herder, 1970.
	75	+But the hu~~myn~~ist, revolutionary educator cannot wait for this pos
	76	+AND
	77	+, they must be partners of the students in their relations with them.
	78	+
	79	+
	80	+====Through critically engaging, we can perceive change. The actions we take are based on our perceptions, and by combining reflection and action, we can further reduce oppression. Freire 2 says====
	81	+Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the oppressed. ~~New York~~: Herder and Herder, 1970.
	82	+In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way
	83	+AND
	84	+from action, and thus establish an authentic form of thought and action.
	85	+
	86	+
	87	+==Links==
	88	+
	89	+
	90	+====The affirmatives use of governments just follows a behavioral norm in the debate community. Arguments that federal action is key is just an attempt to silence us.====
	91	+**Crawford 1– Professor of Political Science at Boston University (Neta, Argument and Change in World Politics, p. 84-86, DWB)**
	92	+International relations scholars frequently talk about "norms" but do so in ways that
	93	+AND
	94	+focal-point agreements) with the unique prescriptive characteristic of normative beliefs.
	95	+
	96	+
	97	+====Law is separated from the intentions of its advocates and can have drastically different consequences. Using policy making skills, even when intentions are good, will still lead to injustice.====
	98	+**Balkin 8** ~~Jack M. Balkin, January 5, 2008, an American legal scholar. He is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, published in ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW, Francis J. Mootz, III., ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press 2008). "Critical Legal Theory Today." http://ssrn.com/abstract=1083846~~
	99	+You might think that a critical theory would focus primarily on law's ideological effects.
	100	+AND
	101	+– even a relatively autonomous law – is a supple tool of power.
	102	+
	103	+
	104	+====Public policy norms are geared to ensure stability for hegemonic powers. Following these norms just gives more power to the state.====
	105	+**Crawford 2– Professor of Political Science at Boston University (Neta, Argument and Change in World Politics, p. 92-95, DWB)**
	106	+There are several ways to think about the possible causal relationships between normative beliefs and
	107	+AND
	108	+account boils down to the position that normative beliefs are irrelevant/epiphenomenal.
	109	+
	110	+
	111	+====Grounding policy decisions in ideas of morality re-entrenches societal hierarchies and eliminates any acts of dissent. Using morals as justification for laws is just a way to lie to the public====
	112	+**Crawford 3 – Professor of Political Science at Boston University (Neta, Argument and Change in World Politics, p. 83-84, DWB)**
	113	+The dominant account of the role of ethics in international relations is that it is
	114	+AND
	115	+to 'tip the balance' in favor of stable departures from slavery."5
	116	+
	117	+
	118	+==Impact==
	119	+
	120	+
	121	+====Laws are influenced by normative beliefs in society. Adherence to legal structures perpetuates societal norms of persecution and discrimination. Turns the aff ====
	122	+**Crawford '02 – Professor of Political Science at Boston University (Neta, Argument and Change in World Politics, p. 90-91, DWB)**
	123	+Despite the existence of meta-normative beliefs, prescriptions are not always followed.
	124	+AND
	125	+embodied in institutions created bureaucratic interests based on the perpetuation of those policies.
	126	+
	127	+
	128	+====Policy norms outweighs hypothetical future conflicts – it lays the seeds for environmental degradation and war—-impact is real world extinction====
	129	+**Szentes 8 **(Tamás, Professor Emeritus at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, "Globalisation and prospects of the world society" http://www.eadi.org/fileadmin/Documents/Events/exco/Glob.___prospects_-_jav..pdf)
	130	+*edited for offensive language
	131	+It's a common place that human society can survive
	132	+AND
	133	+mass destructive weapons, and also due to irreversible changes in natural environment.
	134	+
	135	+
	136	+==Alt==
	137	+
	138	+
	139	+====The alternative is to look beyond law for solutions to complex problems, rather than prohibiting nuclear production, we should just end government interference with nuclear power, which includes subsidies.====
	140	+Ghoshray 2009 – (1/1, Saby, Santa Clara Law Review, Volume 49, Number 1, Article 4, "False Consciousness and Presidential War Power: Examining the Shadowy Bends of Constitutional Curvature")
	141	+Constitutional space is envisaged to be a linear multidimensional space99 in which the distance between
	142	+AND
	143	+learning process and refuses to recreate itself like the society in operates within.
	144	+
	145	+
	146	+====Solvency advocate says subsidization of nuclear energy ought to be ended. Levendis et al 6 says====
	147	+Nuclear Power Author(s): John Levendis, Walter Block and Joseph Morrel Source: Journal of Business Ethics , Vol. 67, No. 1 (Aug., 2006), pp. 37-49 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25123850 Accessed: 14-09-2016 20:38 UTC
	148	+ABSTRACT. Nuclear power has never been free from the stifling involvement of government.
	149	+AND
	150	+for Common Sense (Lancelot) in opposing the Price-Anderson Act.
	151	+
	152	+
	153	+===Solvency===
	154	+
	155	+
	156	+====Taking away subsidies would be the most effective way to make nuclear power disappear. Koplow 11 says====
	157	+http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power/nuclear-power-subsidies-report~~#.V9x1n5grK00. Doug Koplow. 2011
	158	+The nuclear power industry requires government help to stay afloat. Government subsidies to the
	159	+AND
	160	+for more economical and less risky alternatives like energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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	1	+Courtney Coffman

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	1	+Harvard Westlake IP

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	1	+Global Warming DA and Legalism K

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	1	+Greenhill