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+Renewable Shift |
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+====U.S. carbon emissions are getting lower and are on track to meet environmental goals==== |
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+McMahon 6/23 ~~Jeff McMahon, contributor at Forbes, "U.S. On Track To Achieve 2030 Emissions Goals In 2016," Forbes Magazine, June 23, 2016,http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/06/23/u-s-on-track-to-achieve-2030-emissions-goals-in-2016/~~23fa3d9fa42c8e~~ JW |
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+A dramatic slump in coal production has pushed U.S. carbon emissions so |
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+," Cohan said, "if the Clean Power Plan is not implemented." |
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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-~~ JW |
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+*ellipsis from original text |
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+Say what? The U.S. achieved fission before anybody else. It |
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+to figure out nuclear if that envelope is to mean anything to us." |
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+====High probability risk of extinction from climate change==== |
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+Meyer 4/29 ~~Robinson Meyer, associate editor at The Atlantic, where he covers technology, "Human Extinction Isn~’t That Unlikely," The Atlantic, April 29, 2016,http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/~~ JW |
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+Nuclear war. Climate change. Pandemics that kill tens of millions. These are |
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+climate scientists agree that the same phenomenon would follow any major nuclear exchange.) |