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+====Meltdown fears are hype and cause panic that distracts attention from more salient disasters==== |
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+McCartney 11 – general practitioner, Glasgow (Margaret, 3/22. "Panic about nuclear apocalypse overshadows Japan’s real plight." http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1845?ijkey=xsmHzm92sZxFQz2andkeytype=ref) |
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+Yet it is not this human disaster that is the source of ongoing headlines and |
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+====The aff’s fear of inevitable radiation risks causes more harm than the radiation itself – panic leads to psychological trauma and death, radiation’s inevitable and good in low doses, and meltdowns are extremely unlikely==== |
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+George **Johnson 15** ~~(George Johnson, ) When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk, New York Times 9-21-2015~~ AT |
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+This spring, four years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, a small group |
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+avoid the horrors we imagine, we risk creating ones that are real. |
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+====Fear is not inevitable or natural – the aff’s "riskiness" script institutionalizes a narrative of fear and deactivates human agency==== |
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+Frank **Furedi 07** ~~(Frank Furedi, author of Politics of Fear: Beyond Left and Right, published by Continuum, ) The only thing we have to fear is the ‘culture of fear’ itself, This essay is based on a talk delivered at the NY Salon debate, ‘Living in a state of fear’ at the New School on 20 March 2007~~ AT |
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+The terms ‘fear’ and ‘risk’ have been used pretty much interchangeably in many |
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+of individual choice appears to be restricted by today’s harsh regime of uncertainty. |