Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: Palo Alto Independent FZ | Judge: Shivane Sabharwal
Plan Text: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. Khareca and Hansen 13 clarifies the enforcement mechanism. 

Advantage
Newest scientific models prove that a mini ice age is coming in the next 15 years. Crew 15
Crew, Bec. "A 'mini Ice Age' Is Coming in the next 15 Years."ScienceAlert. BEC Crew, 13 July 2015. Web. 10 Sept. 2016. PH
A new model...will look like.

CO2 is key to avert the coming ice age, which causes ecological extinction- comparatively worse than warming. Rawls 08
Rawls, board of directors – The Stanford Review, editor and climate science writer – Error Theory, 11/28/’8
From our current...out the CO2

Nuclear Energy is key to stopping climate change and transition to “green energy”. Harvey 12
Fiona Harvey (Fiona Harvey is an award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian. Prior to this, she worked for the Financial Times for more than a decade. She has reported on every major environmental issue, from as far afield as the Arctic and the Amazon, and her wide range of interviewees include Ban Ki-moon, Tony Blair, Al Gore and Jeff Immelt). May 2012. “Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs”. Web. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/03/nuclear-power-solution-climate-change. 8/9/16.
Combating climate change...Bank in Manila.

Plan is key- Banning nuclear energy jumps global CO2 emissions. Khareca and Hansen 13
A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen. April 2013. “Fossil Fuels Do Far More Harm Than Nuclear Power”. Web. http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/15/fossil-fuels-do-far-more-harm-than-nuclear-power/. 8/10/16
To compute potential...as 16–48.

CO2 independently boosts plant performance and prevents mass starvation—avoids human extinction. Singer 11
Singer, PhD physics – Princeton University and professor of environmental science – UVA, consultant – NASA, GAO, DOE, NASA, Carter, PhD paleontology – University of Cambridge, adjunct research professor – Marine Geophysical Laboratory @ James Cook University, and Idso, PhD Geography – ASU, ‘11
(S. Fred, Robert M. and Craig, “Climate Change Reconsidered,” 2011 Interim Report of the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Regarding the first...atmospheric CO2 enrichment.

The standard is minimizing death. Epistemology comes first
A. The only way we can know something is normatively good or bad is by the consequences
B. Actor-specificity is a meta-framing issue.
C. Epistemic uncertainty means we should default to preventing extinction
D. Risk analysis means preventing existential risk comes first. Bostrom 05
Bostrom, Nick. Professor of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School, Director of Future of Humanity Institute Director of Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, Professor of University of Oxford "Transcript of "A Philosophical Quest for Our Biggest Problems"" TED. TED Conferences, July 2005. Web. 27 Dec. 2014. PH
Now, if we...life was fantastic.

Even if the state is bad, we must operate within it to break it down.
Grossberg 92 (Lawrence Grossberg 92, Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “We Gotta Get Out of this Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture”, page 388-389)