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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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+AND |
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+nuclear plants and the development of new safety technology, the report says. |
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+====South Africa is reliant on coal Farouk 10/15==== |
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+Fazila **Farouk**, **10-15-**2016, "South Africa missing out on energy paradigm shift," No Publication, http://energy.org.za/news/215-south-africa-missing-out-on-energy-paradigm-shift |
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+Meanwhile South Africa intends to pursue coal, as the primary source of energy to |
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+will be further out of touch with the demands of the 21st century. |
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+====Renewable energy cannot replace coal in South Africa Barbee 15==== |
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+Jeff **Barbee**, 6-1-20**15**, "How renewable energy in South Africa is quietly stealing a march on coal," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/01/how-renewable-energy-in-south-africa-is-quietly-stealing-a-march-on-coal |
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+Renewable energy has a long way to go to overtake South Africa's reliance on coal |
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+AND |
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+been mired in delays and cost overruns since construction first started in 2007. |
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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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+AND |
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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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+AND |
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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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+AND |
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+which could help mitigate the risk of climate change leading to economic instability. |
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+====Warming turns the case – millions will be in poverty==== |
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+**AP** (citing the World Bank) **6/19/13 (Climate Change-Poverty Link Highlighted In World Bank Report, HuffPost, **http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/climate-change-poverty-link_n_3463748.html //** OP)** |
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+STOCKHOLM — The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing |
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+AND |
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+lending aimed at adaptation efforts to $4.6 billion in 2012. |
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+====South Africans dying from coal emissions==== |
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+**Siegfried 14** Kristy Siegfried, Part Of The Guardian Development Network, 9-9-2014, "South Africa's coal-fired power stations carry heavy health costs," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/09/south-africas-coal-fired-power-stations-carry-heavy-health-costs |
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+South Africa's dependence on coal to generate 85 of its electricity is taking a |
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+AND |
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+damaging health impacts of air pollution. |
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+Turns your structural violence advantage. |