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+===Uniqueness=== |
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+====We are extremely close to the brink of catastrophic climate change.==== |
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+McKie, Robin. "Scientists Warn World Will Miss Key Climate Target." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 06 Aug. 2016. Web. 08 Aug. 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/06/global-warming-target-miss-scientists-warn. |
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+"Leading climate scientists have warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through |
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+of decades. If not, we are in real trouble.'" |
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+===Link=== |
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+====A reliance on alternative energy that excludes nuclear power can't fix our climate issues; nuclear power is necessary. This doesn't link to the aff's projection of nuclear power as a false "quick fix" – all this proves is it's necessary to transfer to renewables, which is the aff.==== |
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+Biello, David. "How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming." Scientific American. Nature America, Inc., 12 Dec. 2013. Web. 08 Aug. 2016. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nuclear-power-can-stop-global-warming/. |
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+"When the Atlantic Navigator docked in Baltimore harbor earlier this month, the freighter |
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+will exist and implausible that fossil fuels will be phased out.'" |
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+====Constraints on nuclear power limit our ability to prevent climate change.==== |
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+Moniz, Ernest. "Why We Still Need Nuclear Power." Foreign Affairs. Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 07 Feb. 2016. Web. 20 Aug. 2016. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2011-10-17/why-we-still-need-nuclear-power. |
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+"In the years following the major accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979 and |
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+change—is long overdue. Further delay will only raise the stakes." |
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+===Impacts=== |
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+====Causes the death of 100 million by 2030.==== |
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+Koebler, Jason. "100 Million Could Die From Climate Change By 2030." US News. U.S. News and World Report L.P., 27 Sept. 2012. Web. 8 Aug. 2016. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/09/27/report-100-million-could-die-from-climate-change-by-2030. |
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+"A report commissioned by the governments of more than 20 countries found that more |
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+~~ will also minimize widespread illness and mortality that inaction causes.'" |
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+====An inability to prevent greater temperature rise threatens to wipe out all species from the planet, including humans.==== |
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+Auerbach, David. "A Child Born Today May Live to See Humanity's End, Unless…." Reuters. Thomson Reuters, 18 June 2015. Web. 20 Aug. 2016. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/18/a-child-born-today-may-live-to-see-humanitys-end-unless/. |
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+"Humans will be extinct in 100 years because the planet will be uninhabitable, |
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+United Nations' work is a nice gesture, but hardly a meaningful one." |