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-We are at a breaking point – if the earth warms past the three-degree Celsius it triggers irreversible feedback loops. |
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-Spratt, David. "What would 3 degrees mean?" Climate Code Red, 1 Sept. 2010, www.climatecodered.org/2010/09/what-would-3-degrees-mean.html. Accessed 28 Sept. 2016. David Spratt is a professor at Washington College. WC |
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-Three degrees may … to perpetuate itself." |
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-Studies prove that shutting down nuclear plants causes pollution to skyrocket. |
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-Freed, and Ackerland. "Shutting Down U.S. Nuclear Plants is Still Bad News for Environmentalists." Third Way, 19 Mar. 2014, www.thirdway.org/memo/ shutting-down-us-nuclear-plants-is-still-bad-news-for-environmentalists. Accessed 29 Sept. 2016. Third way is a well known and respected centralist think tank. Josh Freed is Third Way's Clean Energy Vice President. |
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-In fact, as … should not take. |
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-This increase in pollution could cause us to surpass the 3-degree threshold – makes climate change irreversible. |
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-Lynas, Mark. "Why nuclear power is still a good choice." Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2011, articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/10/opinion/ la-oe-lynas-nukes-20110410. Accessed 28 Sept. 2016. Mark is an accomplished climate change author. He is a frequent speaker around the world on climate change, biotechnology and nuclear power, and was climate change advisor to the President of the Maldives between 2009 and 2011. In October 2013 he was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University’s Office of International Programs at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and now works with the Cornell Alliance for Science. A ban on nuclear power causes us to surpass the three degree threshold, making climate change irreversible and triggering the previously mentioned impacts. |
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-Looking at the … were substituted instead. |
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-Runaway warming guarantees extinction within 100 years. |
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-Jamail, Dahr. "Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It." truth-out.org. N.p., 6 July 2015. Web. 21 June 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31661-mass-extinction-it-s-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it. |
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-Guy McPherson is … to live now. |