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-Closing nuclear plants forces increased fossil fuel use |
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-Roston 15 Eric Roston, writer for Bloomberg, “Why Nuclear Power Is All but Dead in the U.S.” Bloomberg News, April 15, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/soon-it-may-be-easier-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran-than-in-the-u-s- |
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-Say what? The … anything to us." |
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-Empirically verified. Germany proves that ending the production of nuclear power results in the increased use of coal, NOT renewables. |
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-Lindsay Abrams (Staff Writer at Salon on sustainable energy), "Germany’s clean energy plan backfired", Salon, 07/30/2013,www.salon.com/2013/07/30/germanys_clean_energy_plan_backfired/ |
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-When a nuclear … World Nuclear Association. |
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-The use of coal leads to detrimental health issues and is largely responsible for global warming. Keating 2001. |
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-Martha Keating (Policy Advisor at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), “Cradle to Grave: the Environmental Impacts from Coal”, Clean Air Task Force, June, 2001 |
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-The electric … for climate change.
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-Global warming definitively causes extinction, Sharp and Kennedy, |
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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/) |
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-Our planet is … hard to fix! |
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-And, turns case, The presence of coalmines in an area detrimentally affects the communities there, who are extremely poor minorities. Keating 2001. |
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-Martha Keating (Policy Advisor at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), “Cradle to Grave: the Environmental Impacts from Coal”, Clean Air Task Force, June, 2001 |
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-Children living in … particles off-site. |
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-The by-product of coal is more radioactive than the byproduct of nuclear energy. Hvistendahl 2007 |
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-Mara Hvistendahl (contributing correspondent for Science magazine, finalist for the Pulitzer prize) 12-13-2007 “Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste”, Scientific American |
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-Over the past … around those areas. |