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+Nuclear reactors in Japan supply at least 30 of the electricity. |
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+World Nuclear Association, 16 |
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+World Nuclear Association, August 2016, "Nuclear Power in Japan,” World Nuclear Association, http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-g-n/japan-nuclear-power.aspx |
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+Japan needs to import about 84 of its energy requirements. Its first commercial |
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+the continuation of reliable and affordable electricity supplies is being worked out politically. |
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+Japan key to both East Asia and global economy. |
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+Li, 16 |
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+Cindy Li (analyst at the Country Analysis Unit in the Division of Financial Institution Supervision and Credit (FISC)), 3-31-2016, "The Global Impact of Chinese and Japanese Economic Growth," Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, http://www.frbsf.org/banking/asia-program/pacific-exchange-blog/global-impact-chinese-japanese-economic-growth/ |
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+Asia’s two economic giants collectively account for two-thirds of the region’s output and |
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+AND |
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+-border banking, a role they have not played in two decades. |
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+Banning nuclear power leads to economic downfall |
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+Belogolova 13 (Olga Belogolova – The Atlantic; ex-staff reporter for National Journal, “Why Japan Can’t Quit Nuclear Power”, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/why-japan-cant-quit-nuclear-power/437028/, EmmieeM) |
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+TOKYO — Hiroko Sata, an 87-year-old nurse, walked out |
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+AND |
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+— but the choice is the same. Call it the myopia of power |
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+Economic decline causes multiple war scenarios – the impact is extinction |
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+Harris and Burrows - 2009 (Counselor in the National Intelligence Council, Member at the National Intelligence Council - Mathew J. Burrows, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World—an unclassified report by the NIC published every four years that projects trends over a 15-year period, has served in the Central Intelligence Agency since 1986, holds a Ph.D. in European History from Cambridge University, and Jennifer Harris, Member of the Long Range Analysis Unit at the National Intelligence Council, holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale University, 2009 (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis,” The Washington Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, April, Available Online at http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf, Accessed 08-22-2011, p. 35-37) |
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+Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is |
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+AND |
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+within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world. |
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+Human extinction is the greatest act of suffering imaginable. Epstein 09 |
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+Epstein and Zhao 9, Richard J. Epstein and Y. Zhao ‘9 – Laboratory of Computational Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, The Threat That Dare Not Speak Its Name; Human Extinction, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2009, Muse. |
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+Human extinction is 100 certain—the only uncertainties are when and how. |
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+AND |
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+, could pay dividends in minimizing the eventual cumulative burden of human suffering. |