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-Nuclear energy is key to combat climate change. Magil 15 |
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-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-power-needs-to-double-to-curb-global-warming/ |
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-The International Energy Agency and the Nuclear Energy Agency suggest in a report released Thursday |
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-nuclear plants and the development of new safety technology, the report says. |
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-A decrease in nuclear power is directly correlated with an increase in coal production: countries are empirically proven to have higher emissions |
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-Lynas 15 Lynas, Mark. "Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power." RSS. An Ecomodernist Manifesto, 18 June 2015. Web. 19 Aug. 2016. |
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-The success of the antinuclear movement in the 1970s guaranteed an increased use of coal |
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-movement is therefore not lit by sunshine, but shrouded in coal smoke. |
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-Coal is the single highest contributor to global warming |
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-Campbell, Wiliam. "The Coal Paradox." National Georgaphic. NG, 2015. Web. 2016. |
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-Meanwhile, more than a quarter trillion tons of coal lie underfoot, from the |
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-. Within the next two decades that amount could rise by a third. |
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-Global warming definitively causes extinction |
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-Sharp and Kennedy 14 – (Associate Professor Robert (Bob) A. Sharp is the UAE National Defense College Associate Dean for Academic Programs and College Quality Assurance Advisor. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) in the U.S. National Defense University (NDU), Washington D.C. and then as Associate Professor at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, collocated with NDU. Most recently at NESA, he focused on security sector reform in Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported regional security engagement events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Qatar; Edward Kennedy is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets; 8/22/14, “Climate Change and Implications for National Security,” International Policy Digest, http://intpolicydigest.org/2014/08/22/climate-change-implications-national-security/, Accessed 7/11/16, HWilson) |
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-Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was |
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-investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix! |