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	1	+Resolved: the United States federal government will prohibit the production of nuclear power.
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	3	+Advantage 1 – Water
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	5	+Continued reliance on nuclear power causes water scarcity—uranium mining and reactor operation are both water-intensive.
	6	+Sovacool and Cooper 8 Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 h p://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW
	7	+With electricity demand expected to grow by approximately fifty percent in the next twenty-
	8	+AND
	9	+plant-which uses about twenty billion gallons of water every year.373
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	11	+Nuclear power plants contaminate water, destroy biodiversity, and harm local economies
	12	+Sovacool and Cooper 8. Benjamin K. Sovacool and Christopher Cooper, Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post-Kyoto Energy Challenges, (D r. Benjamin K Sovacool is a Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University ofSingapore. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has worked in advisory and research capacities at the U.S. National Science Foundation's Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security Program, Virginia Tech Consortium on Energy Restructuring, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and U.S. Department of Energy's Climate Change Technology Program. Mr. Christopher Cooper is Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, and the former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC), a New York-based nonprofit interest group devoted to analyzing utility policy and making recommendations for increasing efficiency and expanding the use of renewable resources.) 33 Wm. and Mary Envtl. L. and Pol'y Rev. 1 (2008), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2. NP 8/10/16.
	13	+Nuclear plants do not just use water-they also contaminate it at multiple points
	14	+AND
	15	+of rivers, lakes, and estuaries and complicate drinking water 411 treatment."
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	17	+Nuclear power contaminates drinking water of millions of Americans
	18	+EA 12. Environment America, 1-24-2012, "Nuclear Power Plants Threaten Drinking Water for 49 Million Americans," No Publication, http://www.environmentamerica.org/news/ame/nuclear-power-plants-threaten-drinking-water-49-million-americans, accessed 9-17-2016. NP 9/17/16.
	19	+Washington, D.C. – The drinking water for 49 million Americans could
	20	+AND
	21	+and the production clean, renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
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	23	+Two impacts:
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	25	+A) lack of fish increases coastal poverty which is a form of marginalization.
	26	+Campbell et al 6 J. Campbell, E. Whittingham and P. Townsley IMM Ltd., Innovation Centre, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom “responding to coastal poverty” 2006 http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/CABI_Publications/CA_CABI_Series/Coastal_Zones/Hoanh_1845931076-Chapter21.pdf JW
	27	+At the interface between land and sea, the coast is arguably one of the
	28	+AND
	29	+face increased marginalization and displacement from the coastal resources on which they depend.
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	31	+B) Contamination of drinking water exacerbates inequality and harms minority communities
	32	+Ross 16. Tracey Ross, Danyelle Solomon, 2-9-2016, "Flint Isn’t the Only Place With Racism in the Water," Nation, https://www.thenation.com/article/flint-isnt-the-only-place-with-racism-in-the-water/, accessed 9-17-2016. NP
	33	+Last month, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) delivered his fifth State of
	34	+AND
	35	+a week! Already a subscriber? Log in here. SUBSCRIBE Close Meerkat
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	37	+Advantage 2 - Accidents
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	39	+More nuclear meltdowns are bound to happen – the impact is mass death and tech can’t solve.
	40	+Sovacool and Cooper 8 Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 h p://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW
	41	+F. Safety While the Chair of the Public Information Committee of the American Nuclear
	42	+AND
	43	+any rapid expansion of nuclear power, let alone a safe one.14
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	45	+Accidents harm minority communities most – marginalized communities are the ones closest to reactors
	46	+Alldred and Shrader-Frechette 9. Environmental Injustice in Siting Nuclear Plants by Mary Alldred and Kristin Shrader-Frechette. (Doctoral student Alldred is in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in Stony Brook, New York. Dr. Shrader-Frechette is O’Neill Fam- ily Endowed Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Envi- ronmental Justice and Children’s Health, all at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.) ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Volume 2, Number 2, 2009 © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/env.2008.0544. NP 8/13/16.
	47	+EXAMINING POSSIBLE environmental injustice (EIJ) asso- ciated with siting commercial US nuclear
	48	+AND
	49	+100 radioisotopes routinely emitted by re- actors.1,4,5
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	51	+Nuclear power will always cause accidents to happen – this is a form of structural violence.
	52	+Loy 13 David (A Zen Buddhist teacher and author, David Loy is a board member of Ecological Buddhism. He co-edited the book A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency (2009).) “The Three Nuclear Poisons” Huffington Post April 1st 2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-loy/the-three-nuclear-poisons_b_2983534.html JW
	53	+When we think of aggression (or “ill will”), it’s usually some sort
	54	+AND
	55	+eliminated and the forces of nature cannot be completely controlled or even anticipated.
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	57	+Framework
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	59	+Adopting the perspective of the oppressed is the only way to account for dominant ideologies that skew our thought processes.
	60	+Mills 5 Charles W. Mills (John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy) ““Ideal Theory” as Ideology” Hypatia vol. 20, no. 3 (Summer 2005) JW
	61	+Now what distinguishes ideal theory is not merely the use of ideals, since obviously
	62	+AND
	63	+specifi c experience in distorting our perceptions and conceptions of the social order.
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	65	+Solutions to oppression must be discussed through pragmatic approaches within hegemonic power structures.
	66	+Kapoor 8, 2008 (Ilan, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, “The Postcolonial Politics of Development,” p. 138-139)
	67	+There are perhaps several other social movement campaigns that could be cited as examples of
	68	+AND
	69	+made it difficult for the state to quash them or deflect their claims.
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	71	+Critique is useless without a concrete policy option that solves for the harms you discuss.
	72	+Bryant 12 Levi Bryant (Professor of Philosophy at Collin College) “A Critique of the Academic Left” 2012 https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/ JW
	73	+Unfortunately, the academic left falls prey to its own form of abstraction. It’s
	74	+AND
	75	+of shelters, the distribution of medicines, etc., etc., etc.
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	77	+Oppression is created by social systems so only a focus on material conditions can solve.
	78	+Johnson no date Allan Johnson (PhD in sociology, he joined the sociology department at Wesleyan University) http://www.cabrillo.edu/~lroberts/AlanJohnsonWhatCanWeDO001.pdf JW
	79	+Privilege is a feature of social systems, not individuals. People have or don't
	80	+AND
	81	+, and behave as individuals, how we see ourselves and one another.
	82	+
	83	+The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.
	84	+Coverstone 5 Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) “Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact” Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17th 2005 JW 11/18/15
	85	+An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of
	86	+AND
	87	+that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today.
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	89	+Legal debates are key to short-term survival of oppressed populations. Whether the law is good or bad, legal education is crucial to empowerment.
	90	+Arkles et al 10 (Gabriel Arkles, Pooja Gehi and Elana Redfield, The Role of Lawyers in Trans Liberation: Building a Transformative Movement for Social Change, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, 8 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 579, Spring / Summer, 2010, LN)
	91	+While agenda-setting by lawyers can lead to the replication of patterns of elitism
	92	+AND
	93	+going to continue to have to navigate government agencies and organizations to survive.
	94	+
	95	+The aff uses state as heuristic which doesn’t affirm its legitimacy but allows enhanced governmental resistance.
	96	+Zanotti 14 Dr. Laura Zanotti (Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech) “Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World” – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304,. A little unclear if this is late 2013 or early 2014 – The Stated “Version of Record” is Feb 20, 2014, but was originally published online on December 30th, 2013. Obtained via Sage Database
	97	+By questioning substantialist representations of power and subjects, inquiries on the possibilities of political
	98	+AND
	99	+position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.’’84
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	101	+And, material equality determines our view of individuals – comes before claims about history and epistemology. Okereke ’07,
	102	+Chukwumerije Okereke, Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, "Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance", Routledge, 2007
	103	+Notwithstanding these drawbacks, these scholars provide very compelling arguments against mainstream conceptions of justice
	104	+AND
	105	+satisfy their aspirations for a better life. (WCED 1987: 43).
	106	+
	107	+Inequality creates flawed epistemic conclusions, making normative decision making impossible.
	108	+Medina 11 Medina, J. (2011). Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism. Foucault Studies, 1(12), 9–35
	109	+Foucault invites us to pay attention to the past and ongoing epistemic battles among competing
	110	+AND
	111	+until past epistemic battles are reopened and established frameworks become open to contestation.

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	1	+SEPT OCT US Plan Structural Violence

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