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The nuclear industry is the quintessential expression of modern technology that draws all levels of the
ecosystem and human society into its web of accumulation and destruction
Kinsella 2006 “Heidegger and Being at the Hanford Reservation: Linking Phenomenology, Environmental
Communication, and Communication Theory,” International Communication Association Annual Conference Philosophy of
Communication Division Dresden, Germany, 23 June 2006, allacademic.com
In his essay on “the question concerning …more primal truth (Heidegger, 1977c, p. 28).
Environmental policy has been dominated by a Newtonian ontology that exists to ensure the conditions for
industrial expansion – even the transition to localized environmental policy is overwritten with universals of
capital and management that must be dealt with, not changed.
Bavington in 2011(Dean, Nipissing University, “Environmental History During the Anthropocene,” Environmental History
in Canada, March 27, http://www.deanbavington.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ehplusbavington.pdf)
The above instrumental approach … everywhere throughout history
The loss of Being that defines our historical epoch shapes the dominant social imaginary through
instrumental reasoning – this denies intrinsic value to other beings and the natural world which
legitimates the practices and institutionalization of war, structural violence, and environmental
destruction
Chwastiaka and Lehmanb, 2k8
[Michele University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management, United States, Glen, School of Accounting,
University of South Australia, “Accounting for war,” Accounting Forum,Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 313–
326]
Many peace researchers argue that … with expansionistic logic of capitalism.
Vote negative to let being be – this is a direct negation of the willful and violent power of machination that
understands power and violence as intrinsic characteristics of being. Releasement from the violence of will
allows the earth to disclose itself to us in a totally new ontological context.
Joronen 2011, Mikko, “Dwelling in the Sites of Finitude: Resisting the Violence of the Metaphysical Globe,” Antipode Vol.
00 No. 0, online
According to the first sense …on their own (see Armstrong 2008; de Beistegui 2007:8, 16; ˇ Ziˇzek 2006:282–283)
Warming
Focus on short-term mitigation strategies to deal with the dangers of climate change depoliticizes discussions of
alternative futures. The affirmative is couched within the perceived inevitability of status quo institutions
restricting politics to a managerial governmentality.
Swyngedouw in 2010(Erik, “Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change,” Theory,
Culture & Society, Vol 27(2-3), p. 213-232)
The argument advanced here attempts …political can be recaptured.
Framing question on solvency – prototypes don’t mean designs can be built en masse – Department of Energy
says a decade more for commercialization
(Anderson 10)
Kate Anderson, Senior Engineer – Integrated Applications Office, NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy , “SMALL NUCLEAR
REACTORS” NREL, February 1, 2010,
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=23&ved=0CDcQFjACOBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmr.inl.gov%2FDocument.ashx
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Despite these benefits, small
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Nuclear power will only increase environmental inequalities- site proposals are in primarily poor, rural
communities of color.
Marci R. Culley € Holly Angelique in 11, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, and Penn State,
Participation, Power, and the Role of Community Psychology in Environmental Disputes: A Tale of Two Nuclear Cities,
Am J Community Psychol (2011) 47:410–426 DOI 10.1007/s10464-010-9395-9
In addition to this three-dimensional …discourse around nuclear technology.
Multiple bottlenecks to production – containment vessels, materials and labor
(Kilaru et al 10)
Bharat Kilaru, Matej Mavricek, Yvonne Szeto, Mounica Yanamandala, Univeristy of Chicago Researchers “ Increasing Nuclear Power Use in the United
States” December 6, 2010 http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/institute/bigproblems/Team5-1210.pdf, accessed September 6, 2012.
One of the
major bottlenecks of …programs, including the UK, France, or China.
Focus on the truth of climate science as the primary rationale for policy to solve warming masks the economic
and social relations that make climate change structurally inevitable. These natural sciences promote an
ontology of rational, atomistic actors that pre-figures any prescription for change a failure to address the social
conditions that cause warming.
Wynne in 2010, (Brian, Professor of Science Studies and Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental
Change @ Lancaster, Strange Weather, Again : Climate Science as Political Art, Theory Culture Society 2010 27: 289
Brian Wynne Strange Weather, Again : Climate Science as Political)
Despite its many critics, …implicit model of the science-policy order.
Their silver bullet science should not be trusted-it relies on a technocratic management that excludes public
involvement as we “leave this to the experts.” This ignores the multifaceted complex ways that social relations
interact with science and technology
Ken Cunningham and Holly Angelique 2010
DOI: 10.1177/016059761003400104 Humanity & Society 2010 34: 64 Ken Cunningham Penn State Harrisburg Holly
Angelique Penn State Harrisburg
Meltdown of the Public Interest and the Need for an Engaged Public Island Sphere: A Critical (Re-) Interpretation of the
Nuclear Accident at Three Mile
Technocratic consciousness and ideology … many decades, despite substantial obstacles.
nuclear energy is net worse then fossil fuels for emission
(Mez 12)
Lutz Mez, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Ihnestr. 22, D-14195 Berlin, Germany “Nuclear energy–Any solution for
sustainability and climate protection” Energy Policy, Volume 48, September 2012, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512003527,
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On top of this, viewed from … the use of smart energy services.