Tournament: Conrad HS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Jake Richter | Judge: R Simpkins

1AC

1AC

The standard is mitigating structural violence.

Structural violence is based in moral exclusion, which is fundamentally flawed because exclusion is not based on dessert but rather on arbitrarily perceived differences.

Winter and Leighton 99 |Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter|~Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice~ "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." Pg 4-5 ghsVA
Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about
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local cultures, will be our most surefooted path to building lasting peace.

Day to day lives of people should be valued above all other impacts

Dr. Tommy J. Curry 14, "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014,
Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real
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used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters.

Plan: The United Stat

es federal government should prohibit the production of nuclear power.

C1 – Black Communities

Black bodies are fungible to us – we energize our lives while not noticing the horrible effects of nuclear power from the urban communities most of their plants inhabit.

Dixon 12 Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/
Environmental racism occurs when hazardous industries and facilities are placed in and near poor,
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air or water or anything else for the radiation we know is there.

It is try or die for the affirmative – effects on actual people that are always ignored because they are the out-group Winter and Leighton refer to is what outweighs the idea of nuclear power, under any circumstance, being productive or good for the rest of the environment.

Dixon 12 Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/
"We've had meetings and protests and lots of promises and more meetings," Stephens
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will not benefit Georgia residents, because it will be sold to Florida.

C2 – Indigenous communities

Nuclear power dumps waste on native communities.

NIRS 01 Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Nuclear Waste http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/pfsejfactsheet.htm
 
Nevadans and Utahans living downwind and downstream from nuclear weapons testing
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Chernobyl" in its tracks on Capitol Hill for the past five years.

Without ending nuclear power, we distance ourselves from natives and their relationship and history with the land.

NIRS 01 Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Nuclear Waste http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/pfsejfactsheet.htm
Having lost its bid to "temporarily" store its deadly wastes on Western Shoshone
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that struggle for Native American environmental justice against corporate greed and environmental racism.

And, bad conditions for workers

PSR http://www.psr.org/resources/nuclear-power-factsheet.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive: The Truth About Nuclear Power
Each year, enormous quantities of radioactive waste are created during the nuclear fuel process
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does not produce tailings but it does threaten contamination of groundwater water supplies.

Alternatives good idea

PSR http://www.psr.org/resources/nuclear-power-factsheet.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive: The Truth About Nuclear Power
It is clear that alternatives to fossil fuels must be developed on a large scale
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renewable forms of energy to build a new energy future for the nation.