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Observation 1: Truth-Telling – We are all complicit in a system that otherizes and destroys non-dominant or inconvenient ideologies. Its aim: preserving Whiteness, Its weapon: energy production.
The status quo is a characterization of an invisible racial contract that’s the root cause of otherizing genocidal politics - Disposability becomes written onto black bodies and spaces where resource disparities exist in order to maintain the purity of white spaces.   

Mills 2k
Charles W. Mills, “Black Trash” 2001¶ 

For …. politic.¶ 

Plan: The United States federal government should reduce Nuclear Regulatory Commission restrictions on new nuclear power plant designs and divert all nuclear funding in the status quo for the research and production of liquid fluoride thorium reactors.
 

Observation 2: The Truth is all around us - The science behind warming is rock solid – most scientific reports have confirmed the validity of the greenhouse gas effects; however, modern reactionaries on the march have taken over “climate denial” as their new pet project

 CFR 9/25/11 Council on Foreign Relations, reposted from the AP written by Charles Hanley AP Special correspondent, AP: The American 'Allergy' to Global Warming: Why?, http://www.cfr.org/climate-change/ap-american-allergy-global-warming-why/p26042?cid=rss-fullfeed-apthe_americanallergyto_-092511andutm_source=feedburnerandutm_medium=feedandutm_campaign=Feed%3A+cfr_main+%28CFR.org+-+Main+Site+Feed%29andutm_content=Google+Reader

NEW YORK (AP) — ….ustains us."  

The effects of warming strike at the heart of minority rights – systematic discrimination means marginalized communities are less likely to survive global warming, threatening their unique culture – they are the acceptable casualties of climate denial.

Minority Rights Groups International April 2008http:www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/ClimateChange/Submissions/Minority_Rights_Group_International.pdfAuthor: Rachel Baird (MRG) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) working to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities worldwide, and to promote cooperation and understanding between communities.

Climate …. nation.

Natural Disasters are strengthening - Hurricane Sandy proves we  are at the tipping point It is the best exposition of climate denial- minority communities ignored  – no electricity, lack of food and FEMA still hasn’t shown up
 
Ujjn  North Star Fund, Writer The Blog, Huff Post Editor, “ Climate Change and Sandy’s Impact in the age of inequality” 11/9805 for /12 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hugh-hogan/hurricane-sandy-recovery_b_2067605.html (KH) 

One …. hits.¶ 

Climate denialism is the last bastion of invisible racism. The Politics of denial act to preserve the interests of the rich white male, ignoring the impact borne by minorities. 

Mooney ’11, Chris, science and political journalist specializing in science in politics, the psychology of denialism, Knight Science Journalism Fellow, MIT; Visiting Associate, Center for Collaborative History, Princeton U; 8/2/11 (“What’s Up With Conservative White Men and Climate Change Denial?,” http://www.desmogblog.com/what-s-conservative-white-men-and-climate-change-denial) 

They’re … flames.

No concessions—We cannot accept any degree of racism. It makes injustice and violence inevitable. You have an affirmative obligation to act in the face of racism – solvency is not an issue

Memmi 2K (Albert, , Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Paris, Racism, University of Minnesota Press, translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163)

The …. racist challenge.

Observation 3: The Truth has been hidden from us. Minority communities on the periphery are always the first to be chosen – Economically disadvantaged and Increasingly vulnerable due to exemptions from most state laws and environmental regulations 

Minority communities are always the first to be chosen – Economically disadvantaged and Increasingly vulnerable due to exemptions from most state laws and environmental regulations 

PC No Date, Public Citizen Agency “Radioactive Racism: The History of Targeting Native American Communities with High-Level Atomic Waste Dumps” http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/scullvalley/historynativecommunitiesnuclearwaste06142005.pdf

Low-…. sovereignty.

LFTR’s have the potential to expose this racist decision – they burn existing waste

Hansen, NO DATE (Dr. James, Strategies to Address Global Warming, http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2009/20090713_Strategies.pdf)

The … have been

Discourse on nuclear waste offer a unique space to expose what has been hidden from us.  Our advocacy opens a dialogue that allows us to uncover the concealed motivations that govern our actions

Damveld, 04 (Herman, June, Norms, Values, and Nuclear Waste: A Timely No Thanks to Nuclear Energy, http://www.energiestiftung.ch/files/downloads/energiethemen-atomenergie/1norms-values-and-nuclear-waste_herman-damveld.pdf)

An …. says.

Observation 4: Militaristic Thought –The Development of nuclear energy was not for our benefit, it was rooted in the quest for military supremacy. Nuclear power that was divorced from military use was actively discarded.

Development of nuclear energy was rooted in the quest for military supremacy

Martin, 12 (Richard, May, Superfuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the future, pp. 30)

 Light… naive.

The military’s appropriation of Nuclear Power has perverted our thinking on Nuclear energy, bringing to mind destruction and fear.  Exposing this is key to accessing alternative forms of nuke energy.

James Mahaffey 2009 ATOMIC AWAKENING: A NEW LOOK AT THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF NUCLEAR POWER (PG 7)
It … meltdown.  

Militaristic thought is the prerequisite to the underlying ideology that justifies war. Failure to expose and engage in the struggle against militaristic thought allows for extinction

MARABLE Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies 1984
Manning-Professor of History @ Columbia University; “Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Resistance and Radicalism; p. 198-199.

Black … of humanity

Observation 5: Solvency – We must combat the harms and obfuscations highlighted by the affirmative through discourse.

On climate change, it’s not a question of solvency, but one of exposition – we must constantly discursively challenge the dominant paradigms of climate denial. Engaging in climate denial is an act of discursive violence, and we must combat it at every turn.

Gore, ’11 Yes, THE Al Gore, Al Gore August 29th 2011. “Al Gore Compares Climate Change Deniers to Racists” This is a transcription of the video embedded in the page http://www.inquisitr.com/137269/al-gore-compares-climate-change-deniers-to-racists/

Gore: …, absolutely.  

On the current struggle against global warming the environmental movement has exemplified modern color muteness and we must connect the dots between racial discrimination in warming if we are to survive. The current environment movement engages in the subtle racism of erasure, focusing exclusively on the impact on whiteness.

Tim Wise April 13th 2011 Tim Wise and White Privilege http://changefromwithin.org/2011/04/13/tim-wise-and-white-privilege/

 Wise served as an adjunct faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he co-taught a Master’s level class on Racism in the U.S. In 2001, Wise trained journalists to eliminate racial bias in reporting, as a visiting faculty-in-residence at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1999-2003, Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, in Nashville, and in the early ’90s he was Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized for the purpose of defeating neo-Nazi political candidate, David Duke. He graduated from Tulane University in 1990 and received antiracism training from the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, in New Orleans.

But … survival

Calls to action on Thorium are key to generating the leadership necessary to ensure a shift to LFTRs. Right now Thorium reactors are adrift without an advocate, guaranteeing they won’t be implemented.

Scott Ferguson Factors in Thorium Fuel Adoption 2011 https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/16633/Factors%20in%20Thorium%20Fuel%20Adoption.pdf?sequence=1

The …solution.

Our knowledge of nuclear power has eroded as our engagement with nuclear power became wholly negative. Our critical history of uranium and nuclear weaponization acts as a springboard to breakdown militaristic thought and make thorium power viable. 

Scott Ferguson Factors in Thorium Fuel Adoption 2011 https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/16633/Factors%20in%20Thorium%20Fuel%20Adoption.pdf?sequence=1

The … them.

History has shown us that policy decisions are key to changing public perception on nuclear energy. Engaging with the public and policymakers is critical to a shifting our culture away from one of destruction to one where thorium  is a symbol in opposition to Uranium.

Scott Ferguson Factors in Thorium Fuel Adoption 2011 https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/16633/Factors%20in%20Thorium%20Fuel%20Adoption.pdf?sequence=1

The … policy.