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+===Paris DA=== |
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+====Paris plan close to implementation – preventing US backsliding now is key ==== |
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+**Phillips et al. 9/3** Tom Phillips in Beijing, Fiona Harvey and Alan Yuhas (Beijing correspondent for the Guardian; award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian, for the Financial Times for more than a decade; reporter for the Guardian US). "Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal." The Guardian. 3 September 2016. HW. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/03/breakthrough-us-china-agree-ratify-paris-climate-change-deal |
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+The Paris agreement, sealed last December after two weeks of frantic negotiations, must |
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+: "Here I think I worry definitely more about the US side." |
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+====Aff undermines Paris agreement – leading scientists are opposed and causes climate restrictions to fail ==== |
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+**Holthaus 15** Eric Holthaus (meteorologist who writes about weather and climate for Slate's Future Tense). "Bernie's New Climate Change Plan Is an Environmentalist's Dream, Except for This One Thing." Slate. 7 December 2015. HW. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/12/07/bernie_sanders_climate_plan_calls_for_end_to_nuclear_energy.html |
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+At first glance, Sanders' plan looks great. It calls for a revenue- |
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+ambition in their own plans to meet the greatest challenge of our time." |
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+====And, nuclear power is key to meeting emission restrictions ==== |
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+**Gillis 15** Justin Gillis (New York Times reporter, winner of Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism by Columbia University). "A Path for Climate Change, Beyond Paris." New York Times. 1 December 2015. HW. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/science/beyond-paris-climate-change-talks.html |
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+For instance, in some countries with growing power demands, like China, the |
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+countries in battling global warming, has largely decided not to pursue it. |
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+====Paris Plan is key to prevent extinction by environmental collapse – US leadership is key for global modeling ==== |
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+**Sachs and Kortava 15 **~~David Kortava (Activist, writer) Interviewing Jeffrey Sachs (Prof. Of Sustainable Development at Columbia, Director of the Earth Institute). "This Year's Climate Talks Are Our Last (and Best) Chance to Slow Global Warming" The Nation. February 24, 2015. http://www.thenation.com/article/years-climate-talks-are-our-last-and-best-chance-slow-global-warming/~~ |
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+In December 2015, world leaders will gather in Paris to negotiate a binding agreement |
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+enough, and because it could trigger dynamics that would be quite horrifying. |
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+====Warming causes racism, sexism, and oppression – turns case==== |
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+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 known unequivocally that significant warming of the atmosphere is occurring, coinciding |
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+must reduce our emissions and consumption here at home in the global North. |