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+==1NC – Warming DA== |
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+====Nuclear power is critical to stop catastrophic warming ==== |
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+**Waldman 15 **- Susanne, PhD in Risk Communication at Carleton University ("Why we Need Nuclear Power to Save the Environment" http://energyforhumanity.org/climate-energy/need-nuclear-power-save-environment/) |
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+The idea we might need nuclear power to save the environment may have seen farfetched |
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+AND |
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+they provide is typically quite cheap and not sensitive to fuel price volatility. |
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+====Plants close, emissions go up, even when the intent is to replace with renewables. ==== |
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+**Lovering et al 16**: Lovering et al 6/30 "In Most Cases, Closing A Nuclear Plant Is All Pain And No Gain". June 30 2016. Amber Robson and Jessica Lovering. Accessed August 9 2016. https://medium.com/@ThirdWayTweet/in-mostcases-closing-a-nuclear-plant-is-all-pain-and-no-gain-135911655b8e~~#.c3dvjddji. ~~Premier~~ |
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+Recent history backs up this case, confirming that when nuclear plants close, total |
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+AND |
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+plants like Diablo Canyon and the whole venture seems like a risky ordeal. |
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+====Extinction = super rip==== |
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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 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was |
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+AND |
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+investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix! |