Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
look on atom's wiki it's there i recut it its the africa elephants plan

Tournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Advanced technologies OM | Judge: Ibrahim Gaidarov
Shultz :

the continued existence of a ... Personal identity is can, in this sense, be indeterminate.

Woller

Moreover, virtually all public policies ... problems they address

S/ Util 

Glynn/ Yet, when the focus shift... disputes or scandals, such as the tobacco litigation and the recent Enron debacle.

HLR/ One could also argue, however, that existing privileges ... Moreover, to the extent that courts intentionally use uncertain rules but employ the rhetoric of certainty, they engage in a systemic deception that may have its own delegitimating effect.

Hough and Sato / The argument in brief is that if people trust criminal justice agencies ... this will breed public cynicism about the rule of law and encourage law-breaking.

NYT/ Violent crime rose in ... though at more modest rates. The largest cities had a 1.4 percent increase in violent crime, including 1.5 percent for murders and 3.2 percent for rapes, according to the statistics.

C2/ Societal Survival 

Rosenbaum There are grave moral risks living among lies.  ... At the end of the play, Thebes can finally move forward.  The future of Oedipus -- as judge juror, and principal defendant -- is not as promising, however.  In keeping with the spirit of a Greek tragedy, he searches for the truth with open eyes even though it brings about his own ruin and ultimate self-inflicted blindness. 

C3/ Societal interest

Thanki/ In almost every contested civil action there is a dispute about what happened ... To help the court in its task the parties are required to make available all materials pertinent to its decision. 

C4/ Tradeoffs

Rosenbaum 2/ The Morales decision is an extreme but not unfamiliar example of how privileges show the law to be morally unjust.   ... And sometimes these secrets harbor an injustice that violates a much larger principle than the mere attorney-client privilege.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: Octas | Opponent: all | Judge: all
MEAs good. UNEP: The negotiation of multilateral ... to fulfil their global environmental commitments.
http://www.unep.org/environmentalgovernance/Portals/8/InstitutionalFrameworkforSustainabledevPAPER3.pdf
MEAs topical. UNEP 2: Though these institutional ... of the MEAs.
People can reasonably reject things that destroy their will. Ataner (http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8612andcontext=opendissertations):
My second line of ... Right) in this regard
Affirms under constitutivism. Atapattu (Sumudu Atapattu LL.M (Cantab), Ph.D. (Cantab), Attorney-at-Law (Sri Lanka); Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty and Visiting Scholar, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, USA; Lead Counsel, Human Rights and Poverty Eradication Program of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal, Canada; Consultant, Law and Society Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka “The Public Health Impact of Global Environmental Problems and the Role of International Law” American Journal of Law and Medicine. LexisNexis):
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ... principle of cooperation.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: Octas | Opponent: all | Judge: all
MEAs good. UNEP: The negotiation of multilateral ... to fulfil their global environmental commitments.
http://www.unep.org/environmentalgovernance/Portals/8/InstitutionalFrameworkforSustainabledevPAPER3.pdf
MEAs topical. UNEP 2: Though these institutional ... of the MEAs.
People can reasonably reject things that destroy their will. Ataner (http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8612andcontext=opendissertations):
My second line of ... Right) in this regard
Affirms under constitutivism. Atapattu (Sumudu Atapattu LL.M (Cantab), Ph.D. (Cantab), Attorney-at-Law (Sri Lanka); Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty and Visiting Scholar, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, USA; Lead Counsel, Human Rights and Poverty Eradication Program of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal, Canada; Consultant, Law and Society Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka “The Public Health Impact of Global Environmental Problems and the Role of International Law” American Journal of Law and Medicine. LexisNexis):
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ... principle of cooperation.

Tournament: Sunvitational | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Jake Steirn | Judge: Maeshal Abid, Emily Massey, Fred Ditzian
Oil is increasing now multiple sectors at risk
Ahmed 13/ A new multi-disciplinary study led by the University of Maryland calls for immediate action ... oil production must increase by 3 per year. This looks increasingly unlikely.

OPEC is made of developing countries. OPEC/
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq ...  Indonesia suspended its membership effective January 2009.

Plan Text: The original members of OPEC defined by OPEC should enforce the Daly Correa tax on domestic oil formed for exports. 

Plan would get modeled King 13/ Ecuador will introduce plans for a small carbon tax on oil at the May meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)... sufficient amount of resources, so as perhaps to match 80 of what is needed for the Green Climate Fund.”

Adv 1/ Carbon Emissions 

Carbon tax would decrease consumption Spinetto/ Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa asked members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to support a 5 percent tax on oil sales to help curb carbon dioxide emissions... Kyoto Protocol which is due to expire in 2012.

Climate change/ Koppelaar 9:
The current scientific consensus ... re of the opinion that levels over 350 ppm will lead to dangerous climate change. Current levels are rising by 2 ppm a year and already exceed 380 ppm

Global warming leads to extinction. 

Tickell/
the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd ... : the warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth.

Adv 2/ Fossil fuel tax

Subsidies at all time high. IMF:
Fossil fuel consumption subsidies are most prevalent ... are an inefficient means for doing so, creating market distortions that result in wasteful energy consumption.

Tax would lead to focus on cleaner energy
KING 13
The idea of a tax on oil was first suggested in 2001 by Herman Daly, formerly a senior environmental economist at the World Bank.¶ Ecuadorean president, Rafael Correa resurrected the concept ... A move solely by OPEC could also offer supporters of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline with another reason to back the project, which they argue will reduce the USA’s reliance on imported supplies

Clean energy solves Mosaic 13/
Critics of clean energy are ... . If energy prices in the United States continue to rise as expected, numerous regions of the United States will begin to see grid parity in the next few years.

Fossil fuels destroy the economy:
IMF: A new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ... significant impact on the poor and that “mitigating measures to protect them as subsidy reform is implemented” must be an integral part of any successful and equitable reform program.

Leads to global war. Royal 10/
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict. Political science literature has contributed a moderate ..., crises and armed conflict has not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.

Leads to Extinction. Dyer/ War is deeply embedded in our history and our culture ... be able to ride out the next half-century without the first-magnitude catastrophe of a global nuclear war, but the potential certainly exists for a major die-back of human population.

Tournament: VBT | Round: Octas | Opponent: Loyola CK | Judge:
Value judgments fulfill functions. Anscombe:
The terms “should” or “ought” or “needs” ... or something can be required by law.

The government is functionally an individual. 5 reasons: 

1. Not distinct agent
   2. Act through collective reasoning
   3. Can't transfer powers
   4. Standards can't be distinct
   RODL: It might seem that there may be a power that yields knowledge of what one is doing but not knowledge of what is good to do: it... a self-conscious, self-constituting, self-determining—power. 

Fostering virtue is key to making people happy. Mayo
Imitation can be  amore or less successful. And this suggests another defect of the ethics of ... set them apart from the rest of humanity. It is enough if we try to be a little like them. 

There is no single developing definition of a country. Princeton: Since no single definition of the ... countries have high average standards of living. 

Env protection necessary to foster virtue
SCU: Some ethicists are proposing that the environmental crisis ... The ethical life to be consistent requires action, requires engagement; it demands commitment, and virtues can guide us on this journey.

Resource extraction breeds negative virtues. Hull:
Arrogance, as Frasz construes it, compels a person ... while motivating behaviors that are harmful to sentient life, human or otherwise.

All nations are constitutive of env protection Ataner
But what exactly are the conditions that conform with the idea of freedom ... security and integrity simply cannot be a matter of indifference from the standpoint of Right.