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+**Advantage One is China: China plans to build floating nuclear reactors in the South China Sea. Roulstone 16:** |
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+Tony, Cambridge Nuclear Energy Center. “Fukushima at sea? China wants a fleet of floating nuclear power plants” May 10, 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/opinions/china-floating-nuclear-reactors/ |
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+China is planning to build … expected to be oil-rich waters. |
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+**China needs floating nuclear power to power military operations on the islands they have created – only floating nuclear allows the islands to work. Forsythe 4/22:** |
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+Michael, writes for the New York Times. “China to develop floating nuclear power plants” April 22, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/world/asia/china-nuclear-power-south-china-sea.html?_r=0 SA-IB |
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+All the radar systems, lighthouses, … large buildings such as barracks. |
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+**China uses nuclear power to combat The Hague ruling – floating nuclear power is key to their hegemony. Follett 7/27:** |
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+Andrew, Energy and science reporter. “Chinese Gov Media: We Can Put Nuclear Reactors In Disputed Waters By 2019” July 27, 2016. http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/27/chinese-gov-media-we-can-put-nuclear-reactors-in-disputed-waters-by-2019/ SA-IB |
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+A Chinese state-run news outlet … , according to the World Nuclear Association. |
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+**Floating nuclear power allows increased radar capacities and anti-navy powers. Wood 16:** |
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+L. Todd. “China to build nuclear power plants in the South China Sea” April 24, 2016. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/24/china-build-floating-nuclear-power-plants-south-ch/ SA-IB |
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+China is planning to … range, reported the Sydney Morning Herald. |
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+**That kills US influence in the region – increased radar range crushes navy power – risks conflict and threatens war. Forsythe and Perlez 16:** |
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+Michale and Jane. “South China Sea Buildup Brings Beijing Closer to Realizing Control” March 08, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/world/asia/south-china-sea-militarization.html SA-IB |
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+Since taking office three years ago, … efforts to develop countermeasures against it. |
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+**US Navy weakness and Chinese domination of the South China Sea mean US-China war. Rubel 14:** |
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+Robert C. Rubel 14, Dean of Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College, “Navies and Economic Prosperity: The New Logic of Sea Power,” in Writing to Think: The Intellectual Journey of a Naval Career, p.60-68 |
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+Systems thinking recognize and acknowledge … current global economic woes—prosperity. |
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+**Advantage Two is Russian Artic Exploration: Russia wants to explore the artic but they need energy – floating nuclear plants are their plan, that’s the only way they can drill. Galpin 10:** |
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+Richard. “Nuclaer power at heart of Russia’s Artic Ambition” BBC. Sept 22, 2010. |
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+In a grimy shipyard in St Petersburg, … sea near large gas rigs. |
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+**That causes warming and massive emissions. Kroh and Marano 13:** |
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+Kiley and Howard. “Adding Fuel to the Fire: The Climate Consequences of Artic Ocean Drilling” March 21, 2013. |
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+The prospect of industrializing the fragile … incompatible with expanding fossil-fuel production. |
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+**Thus the plan: Countries should prohibit the production of floating nuclear power plants. Grossman 10:** |
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+Karl, has specialized in doing investigative reporting in a variety of media for more than 40 years. He teaches as well as practices journalism. He is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. “Floating Chernobyls” Sept 03, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/karl-grossman SA-IB |
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+They would be floating Chernobyls. … initiative that Russia should emulate. |
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+**The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing for three reasons.** |
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+**First reduction, Brain studies prove that there’s no such thing as personal identity. Parfit 84:** |
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+Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984). |
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+Some recent Recent medical cases … answers. written by this person’s two hands. |
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+**In the absence of personal identity, only end states matter. Shoemaker 99:** |
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+David Shoemaker (Dept of Philosophy, U Memphis). “Utilitarianism and Personal Identity.” The Journal of Value Inquiry 33: 183–199, 1999. http://www.csun.edu/~ds56723/jvipaper.pdf |
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+Extreme reductionism might lend… is just such a theory. |
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+**Second, my standard controls the link to any practical reason or contract frameworks because rational agents would consent to a universal law to maximize utility to increase the chance of their own interests being satisfied.** |
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+**Rejection of current IR paradigm magnifies hierarchy – emancipation rhetoric gives powerful states a basis for intervention and robs the Third World of agency – traditional security models solve their impacts better. McCormack 10:** |
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+Tara McCormack, is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster. 2010, Critique, Security and Power: The political limits to emancipatory approaches, pg. 127-129 |
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+The following section will briefly … critical and emancipatory theoretical approaches. |