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+Global economy is currently at a low – expert consensus. Ellyatt 8/11 |
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+Holly Ellyatt. August 11, 2016 “World economic outlook dips to 3-year low: Ifo.” http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/11/world-economic-outlook-dips-to-3-year-low-ifo.html |
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+Confidence in the ... low previous level. |
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+Nuclear Power Provides global electricity and many industrialized countries depend on it for up to 75 of their power WNA 15 |
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+World Nuclear Association, February 2015, Nuclear Power in the World Today, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Nuclear-Power-in-the-World-Today/ DOA: 8-11-15 |
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+In the 1950s ... sources has grown. |
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+Closing nuclear power plants causes electricity prices to rise. |
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+Mark Perry 4/11 (full professor of economics at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in economics and finance since 1996. Starting in the fall of 2009, Perry has also held a joint appointment as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Perry holds two graduate degrees in economics (M.A. and Ph.D.) from George Mason University and an MBA degree in finance from the University of Minnesota). “What happens when a nuclear power plant is shut down” The Detroit News. April 11, 2016. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2016/04/11/nuclear-power-plant-closed/82923486/. |
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+A recent study ... nearly 3,000 people. |
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+Two impacts |
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+a) Econ collapse and energy price volatility leads to escalating instability and nuke war. Harris and Burrows 09 |
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+Harris and Burrows, 9 – *counselor in the National Intelligence Council, the principal drafter of Global Trends 2025, **member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis”, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_burrows.pdf) |
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+Increased Potential for ... more dog-eat-dog world. |
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+b) High energy prices create energy poverty for already poor households. Lomborg 14 |
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+Bjorn Lomborg. “How Green Policies hurt the poor”. The Spectator. April 5, 2014. http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/04/let-them-eat-carbon-credits/ |
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+Britain’s environmentalists proudly ... rising fuel bills. |
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+Energy poverty creates hostilities between wealthy and poor people that causes conflict and mass structural violence. Aigbe 14 |
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+Omoruyi Aigbe, CONFLICT AND POVERTY IN AFRICA: THE EFFECT OF NATURAL RESOURCE AND LEADERSHIP, 7/25/14 |
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+On April 15 2013, the United ... indirect at best. |