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-Nuclear power is expanding steadily worldwide. WNA 16 |
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-World Nuclear Association. (The World Nuclear Association is the international organization that represents the global nuclear industry. Its mission is to promote a wider understanding of nuclear energy among key international influencers by producing authoritative information, developing common industry positions, and contributing to the energy debate). April 2016.//SyoJW |
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-Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily, with over 60 reactors under construction in |
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-these provided 2411 billion kWh, over 11 of the world's electricity. |
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-The scale of the challenge is too big – need nuclear energy to just avoid a 450ppm threshold. Harvey 12 |
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-Fiona Harvey. (Fiona Harvey is an award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian. Prior to this, she worked for the Financial Times for more than a decade. She has reported on every major environmental issue, from as far afield as the Arctic and the Amazon, and her wide range of interviewees include Ban Ki-moon, Tony Blair, Al Gore and Jeff Immelt). "Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs". The Guardian. May 3, 2012.//SyoJW |
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-But Sachs, director of the Earth Institute and professor of sustainable development at Columbia |
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-are much more powerful than the arithmetic of climate scientists," he said. |
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-Nuclear Power is critical to reducing GHG emissions. Fossil fuels like coal would be damning. Kharecha and Hansen 13 |
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-Pushker A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen. (Kharecha is a researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Hansen is a researcher at Columbia University) "Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power. Environmental Science and Technology. March 15, 2013.//SyoJW |
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-GHG Emissions. We calculate that world nuclear power generation prevented an average of 64 |
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-the next few decades (derived by dividing 80 and 240 by 500). |
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-Plan makes emissions increase substantially – study is an underestimate b/c it studies the Low Nuclear Case. IEA 11. |
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-International Energy Agency. (World Energy Outlook 2011 brings together the latest data, policy developments, and the experience of another year to provide robust analysis and insight into global energy markets, today and for the next 25 years. This edition of the IEA's flagship WEO publication gives the latest energy demand and supply projections for different future scenarios, broken down by country, fuel and sector). "World Energy Outlook". 2011.//SyoJW |
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-One of the major advantages of nuclear power compared with electricity generated from fossil fuels |
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- of the increase comes from power plants in non-OECD countries. |
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-Climate change disproportionally affects minoritarian groups despite the fact that they have contributed the least to the problem — fighting climate change means fighting oppression. |
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-**Pellow 12**, David Naguib, (Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota) February 2012, "Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice," http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf SHSAM |
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-While contributing the least of anyone to the causes of climate disruption, people of |
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-, and economic justice is inseparable from any effort to combat climate disruption. |