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U.S. fusion research has been gutted by a lack of federal funding
Hammond ’12
(Bill, Columnist and Editorial Writer – New York Daily News, "Don’t Let the Sun Set on Fusion", New York Daily News, 4-3, http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sun-set-fusion-article-1.1054771)-http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/sun-set-fusion-article-1.1054771%29
President Obama has touted federal investment in energy technology as a smart and environmentally friendly
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bucks for solar panels and windfarms, and nickels and dimes for fusion.
More funding is key to domestic fusion projects.
Hand 12
Eric Hand, Nature, "U.S Fusion in Budget Vice", http://www.nature.com/news/us-fusion-in-budget-vice-1.11061

For years, US researchers have been steadfast in their support of ITER, the
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, the results from ITER will only benefit the rest of the world."

Targeting energy production and spending beyond ITER spurs quick development
Prager ’11
(Stewart, Director – U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences – Princeton University, "Why Fusion Energy Could Enhance Future Energy Independence", The Daily Energy Report, August, http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2011/08/why-fusion-energy-could-enhance-future-energy-independence/)-http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2011/08/why-fusion-energy-could-enhance-future-energy-independence/%29
Plan: The USFG should substantially increase funding for domestic fusion reactors.

Advantage 1: Deterrence
NIF cuts are coming – funding saves the project
Hunter 12
(Eve, Research Intern at Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, "Livermore Fails to See the Light," http:~/~/nukesofhazardblog.com/story/2012/10/16/151918/76url:http://nukesofhazardblog.com/story/2012/10/16/151918/76)-http://nukesofhazardblog.com/story/2012/10/16/151918/76%29

Another part of the nuclear weapons complex is in deep trouble. For the scientists
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vital to the economy will be hard pressed to survive in this climate.

N.IF key to nuclear deterrence
LLNL 13
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Stockpile Stewardship", 2013 https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/national_security/stockpile_stewardship.php

NIF is an essential component of the U.S. stockpile assessment and certification
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and certify the aging stockpile without actual nuclear tests using supercomputer modeling tools.
Nuclear deterrence prevents great power wars and extinction.

G John Ikenberry Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University "The Rise of China and the Future of the West" Foreign Affairs January/February 2008 http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080101faessay87102/g-john-ikenberry/the-rise-of-china-and-the-future-of-the-west.html-http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080101faessay87102/g-john-ikenberry/the-rise-of-china-and-the-future-of-the-west.html

The most important benefit of these features today is that they give the Western order
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change. War-driven change has been abolished as a historical process. 

Advantage 2: Environment
Fusion can produce limitless clean energy and solves environment impacts now, funding is key.
Vincent 12
Michael Vincent, ABC News, "Physicists make push for fusion reactor funding", http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-10/physicists-lobby-australia-for-fusion-reactor-funding/4417826
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is being built in the south of France and has
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You’re talking about millions of times more power than coal," he said.

Try or die- Environment is on the tipping point- Collapse will be fast and catastrophic
AFP 6/6 (Agence France-Presse, citing UN study, "Environmental collapse now a serious threat: scientists," Raw Story, http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/environmental-collapse-now-a-serious-threat-scientists/)
The paper by 22 top researchers said a "tipping point" by which the
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surface is being used for farming or habitation, according to the study.
No alt causes- Energy production is the key to environmental sustainability
Greenhalg 2002 (Robin Greenhalg, environment researcher and freelance writer, "Fossil Fuel And It’s Impact On The Environment,"  Essortment, http://www.essortment.com/all/fossilfuelimpa_rhxu.htm)
There is a growing concern regarding the collaboration between fossil fuels and environmental pollution.
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of solid waste, not to mention the land degradation and human illness.
Environment collapse causes extinction
Jayawardena 2009 (Asitha Jayawardena, London South Bank University, July 17, 2007, "We Are a Threat to All Life on Earth", Indicator, http://www.indicator.org.uk/?p=55)
Sloep and Van Dam-Mieras (1995) explain in detail why the natural
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’respecting ecological limits, …. expecting surprises and adapting to these.’
Pollution makes famine inevitable- Significant and international impact
PhysOrg 2012 (PhysOrg, January 25, 2012, "Food crops damaged by pollution crossing continents," http://phys.org/news/2012-01-food-crops-pollution-continents.html)
Man-made air pollution from North America causes Europe to lose 1.2
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addressed at an international level rather than through local air quality policies alone."
World War III
Calvin 1998 (William H. Calvin, theoretical neurophysiologist at the University of Washington, January 1998, The Atlantic Monthly, v281 i1 pcover,47-50,52+, "Great climate flip-flop," infotrac)
The population-crash scenario is surely the most appalling. Plummeting crop yields would
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longer do so if it lost the extra warming from the North Atlantic.
Electricity sector transition is the key to solve warming
Morgan et al 2005 (Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, Lester Lave, "The U.S. Electric Power Sector and Climate Change Mitigation," June 2005, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Carnegie Mellon, http://goo.gl/b35fg)
Measured by environmental impact and economic importance, the electricity industry is one of the
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in terms of siting, public acceptability, cost, or other factors.
Extinction
Ahmed 2010 (Nafeez Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, professor of International Relations and globalization at Brunel University and the University of Sussex, Spring/Summer 2010, "Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises," Spotlight on Security, Volume 5, Issue 2, online)
Perhaps the most notorious indicator is anthropogenic global warming. The landmark 2007 Fourth Assessment
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– a situation endangering the survival of all life on earth.~xi~

Advantage 3: Economy
Investor confidence is down – growth will decline.

MarketWatch 6/20/2012 (Jeffry Bartash, The Wall Street Journal, http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-06-20/economy/32326509_1_companies-spending-fiscal-cliff)
The leaders of America’s largest companies are turning more cautious about the U.S
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key export markets for U.S. companies, have also contributed.

However, safe, cheap, and clean energy from fusion power spurs the economy and prevents decline.
Prager ’11
(Stewart, Director – U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences – Princeton University, "Why Fusion Energy Could Enhance Future Energy Independence", The Daily Energy Report, August, http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2011/08/why-fusion-energy-could-enhance-future-energy-independence/)-http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/2011/08/why-fusion-energy-could-enhance-future-energy-independence/%29
Fusion energy has several very intriguing features. First is it’s essentially inexhaustible. The
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source and that’s what kept this research programs so motivated over the years.

And, Economic decline causes nuclear war

Burrows and Harris ’09 (Mathew J. Burrows, counselor in the National Intelligence Council, PhD in European History from Cambridge University, and Jennifer Harris, a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit, April 2009 "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf)

Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is
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within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.