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	1	+=Environmental Justice AC=
	2	+
	3	+==Part 1 is Framework==
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	5	+
	6	+====People are inherently equal at birth, so systemic exclusion of particular groups arbitrarily denies due, therefore we must listen to those oppressed outside our scope of justice====
	7	+**Winter and Leighton 01, D. D., and Leighton, D. C. (2001). Structural violence. In D. J. Christie, R. V. Wagner, and D. D. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. New York: Prentice-Hall. CM**
	8	+Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about
	9	+
	10	+AND
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	12	+thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity.
	13	+
	14	+
	15	+====Debate should deal with questions of real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimizes oppression.====
	16	+**Curry 14, Dr. Tommy J. Curry 14, "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014, BE**
	17	+Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
	18	+
	19	+AND
	20	+
	21	+used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters.
	22	+
	23	+====Morality is based on response to problems in the world, which justifies focus on resolving material conditions of violence.====
	24	+**Pappas 16, Gregory Fernando Pappas 16 ~~Texas AandM University~~ "The Pragmatists’ Approach to Injustice", The Pluralist Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2016, BE**
	25	+In Experience and Nature, Dewey names the empirical way of doing philosophy the "
	26	+
	27	+AND
	28	+
	29	+that is, provide a diagnosis and a solution specific to each patient.
	30	+
	31	+====Thus, my standard is promoting social equality. Promoting Social Equality means increasing all peoples’ ability to have a say in the conditions that govern them.====
	32	+
	33	+
	34	+====We must look at the social equality of all beings====
	35	+**Cummiskey 90 (David Cummiskey 90 Associate prof of philo @ UChicago, "Kantian Consequentialism", University of Chicago Press, Ethics, Vol. 100, No. 3 (Apr., 1990), pp. 586-615, BE, http://cms-content.bates.edu/prebuilt/kantian.pdf)**
	36	+We must not obscure the issue by characterizing this type of case as the sacrifice
	37	+
	38	+AND
	39	+
	40	+which dictates that some must sometimes give way for the sake of others.
	41	+
	42	+==Part 2 is the Advocacy==
	43	+
	44	+====Thus I affirm: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power reactors by phasing-out ====
	45	+
	46	+**====Lucas 12 (Caroline Lucas ~~an British politician, and since 2 September 2016, Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales~~, 2-17-2012, "Why we must phase out nuclear power," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/feb/17/phase-out-nuclear-power MG)====**
	47	+The inherent risk in the use of nuclear energy, as well as the related
	48	+
	49	+AND
	50	+
	51	+fear of losing their power tend to follow the majority of their citizens.
	52	+
	53	+
	54	+====Prohibition is key to sustainable energy====
	55	+**Sharpe 08 (Sharpe, Virginia. "‘Clean’ Nuclear Energy? Global Warming, Public Health, and Justice." Biomedsearch, July 1, 2008. http://www.biomedsearch.com/article/Clean-nuclear-energy-Global-warming/187426897.html.)**
	56	+Remedies for the toxic pollution of tribal lands, however, have lagged far behind
	57	+
	58	+AND
	59	+
	60	+and protections built into nuclear energy policy, they are likely to continue.
	61	+
	62	+
	63	+==First is The war against workers==
	64	+
	65	+====Nuclear power exposes workers to dangerous radiation – workers are exploited by the state, that falsifies information.====
	66	+**Alldred 09 (Alldred, Mary and Shrader-Frechette, Kristin. Environmental Injustice in Siting Nuclear Plants ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Volume 2, Number 2, 2009.)**
	67	+In stages (2)–(5) of the nuclear fuel cycle, tens of
	68	+
	69	+AND
	70	+
	71	+allowable, annual occupational-radiation dose of 50 mSv.20,21
	72	+
	73	+
	74	+====In fact, states often try to minimize Nuclear Powers’ real risks to create a false sense of security.====
	75	+**Cousins notes (Cousins, Elicia Researcher, Carleton College, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Marianna Zapanta. "Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice." Carleton College, Environmental Studies Comprehensive Project, no date.) **
	76	+Those who experience a nuclear accident suddenly find themselves subject to various pressures regarding what
	77	+
	78	+AND
	79	+
	80	+a letter written by a village schoolteacher and evacuee from the Chernobyl zone:
	81	+
	82	+
	83	+
	84	+====Shift away from nuclear is inevitable due to decreasing uranium supply – banning nuclear power is key to ensure renewable jobs and grow the industry now. No Phase-out will jeapordize energy transition and jobs====
	85	+**Schönau ("100 Good Reasons Against Nuclear Power." Elektrizitätswerke Schönau, nd. https://www.100-gute-gruende.de/pdf/g100rs'en.pdf.)**
	86	+~~#94 Renewable energy 100 per cent renewable energy generation is possible. Even today
	87	+
	88	+AND
	89	+
	90	+companies that have been obstructing renewable energies and energy saving efforts for decades.
	91	+
	92	+
	93	+
	94	+====Phase-out empirically leads to a full shift to renewables- Europe proves====
	95	+**Shankleman 16 (Jessica Shankleman, 5-16-2016, "Germany Just Got Almost All of Its Power From Renewable Energy," Bloomberg, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/germany-just-got-almost-all-of-its-power-from-renewable-energy)**
	96	+Clean power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand for the first time on Sunday
	97	+
	98	+AND
	99	+
	100	+that can manage this oversupply — for example more interconnectors or energy storage."
	101	+
	102	+
	103	+
	104	+==Second is Indigenous Communities==
	105	+
	106	+====Nuclear power production through uranium mining exacerbates material violence against indigenous peoples====
	107	+**Endres 09 ~~Danielle Endres (—-), "The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision" Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2009, pp.39-60~~**
	108	+Before attending to the rhetorical nature of nuclear colonialism, it is important to emphasize
	109	+
	110	+AND
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	112	+contaminated soil and water, which could harm animal and plant life.15
	113	+
	114	+
	115	+====And, The negative health conditions are tremendous from the radiation levels produced by uranium mining====
	116	+**Sharpe 08 (Sharpe, Virginia. "‘Clean’ Nuclear Energy? Global Warming, Public Health, and Justice." Biomedsearch, July 1, 2008. http://www.biomedsearch.com/article/Clean-nuclear-energy-Global-warming/187426897.html.)**
	117	+The legacy of uranium mining in Navajo lands provides a cautionary tale. Between 1944
	118	+
	119	+AND
	120	+
	121	+is twenty-eight times greater than Navajos not exposed to uranium.7
	122	+
	123	+
	124	+
	125	+====Next, This cycle of violence perpetuates itself all around the world====
	126	+**Alldred 09 (Alldred, Mary and Shrader-Frechette, Kristin. Environmental Injustice in Siting Nuclear Plants ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Volume 2, Number 2, 2009.)**
	127	+At stage (1), mining uranium, in most major uranium- producing nations
	128	+
	129	+AND
	130	+
	131	+other people would be allowed to receive higher, even fatal, doses.⁶
	132	+
	133	+
	134	+
	135	+====Uranium mining has genocidal impacts and even disrupts the food chain impacting the ecosystem. ====
	136	+**Winkler 02 (Winkler, Philippa. "Unprofessional Women? Activism Against the Pursuit of Capital, Uranium Mining and ‘Depleted’ Uranium." ASU Women’s Studies, 2002. https://msu.edu/~~wlfgr/winkler'p.pdf.)**
	137	+But uranium poisoning does not stop at the borders, it spreads regardless of gender
	138	+
	139	+AND
	140	+
	141	+overriding goal of ending the "unjust, inequitable capitalist structure of society."
	142	+
	143	+
	144	+====But empirics prove a nuclear phase-out decreases uranium mining====
	145	+**Schmid 15 (Schmid, Sonja. "Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry," 400. MIT Press, 2015. https://books.google.com/books?id=dMzVBgAAQBAJanddq=phase-out+of+nuclear+power+decreases+uranium+miningandsource=gbs'navlinks's.)**
	146	+Political transitions like the collapse of the Soviet Union tend to remind us how fragile
	147	+
	148	+AND
	149	+
	150	+uranium mining organizations and about half of the previously Soviet nuclear power plants.

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	1	+La Costa Canyon AT

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	1	+Environmental Justice AC v 1

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	1	+Loyola