Tournament: USC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Chris Kymn | Judge: Tim Alderete
WTO Counter-Advocacy

I negate. Environmental protection and resource extraction are both vital goals, and the topic presupposes that both are promoted to some degree whether we affirm or negate. The word “prioritize” means that both are promoted to some degree, as it is impossible to prioritize only one thing when there is nothing to prioritize it over. The crucial question isn’t which is prioritized but who enacts the prioritization. 

A. is the Counter-Advocacy. Environmental protection and development should be regulated by the WTO. Skinner 10

Jonathan Skinner, A Green Road to Development: Environmental Regulations and Developing Countries in the WTO, 20 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 245-270 (Winter 2010). 

Historically, environmental regulations ... protection and development.

The WTO has regulatory measures to ensure environmental protection while also protecting healthy trade instead of diminishing it like unilateral implementation does. DeSombre ‘11

Global Environmental Governance ... trade) could be adjudicated.

Thus, my policy is better implementation for environmental legislation and for trade.

B. is the Competition.

(1) Net benefits. Any reason why WTO policies are preferable to developing countries is a reason to vote for the counterplan over the aff.

(2) Their actor was clarified as the developing country’s government during CX. 

(3) Mutual Exclusivity- my argument is that the WTO should implement regulations; this conflicts with the aff because developing countries implement regulations inconsistent with WTO policies so they would contradict.

C) Is net-benefits:

First, developing countries institute ineffective and harmful regulation.

Decision-makers are not adequately informed to protect the environment and pursue sustainable development policies. Ascher and Healy 1

William Ascher and Robert G. Healy, Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries: Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution. Duke University Press, 1990

Centralization also means ... disciplined and equitable manner).

Therefore I control the internal link to economic growth and sustainability. 

The construction of governments in developing countries makes it nearly impossible to pass effective environmental policy.  Weak branches of government worsen the problem.  Ascher and Healy 2

William Ascher and Robert G. Healy, Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries: Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution. Duke University Press, 1990

The development planning ... benefits to be pursued.

Second, the WTO increases trade and fosters economic growth.

These international organizations can open up the developing countries’ economies. Downey 10 

Liam Downey, Eric Bonds and Katherine Clark, “Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation.” Organ Environ, December 2010.

Of course, transportation ... with their borders.

And, international institutions like the WTO are in better position to address environmental problems and their global reach. Skinner 2: 

Jonathan Skinner, A Green Road to Development: Environmental Regulations and Developing Countries in the WTO, 20 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 245-270 (Winter 2010). 

It is debatable whether ... combat environmental degradation.

Subpoint B: War

By increasing trade, the WTO increases interdependence and thus decreases the chances of war. Yee ‘05 

(Tan Yan Yee—Royal Military College in Duntroon, Australia from 1987-1988. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a B.Sc. (Econs) degree in 1992; “Democratisation, Interdependence, and the Prospects for Future War: THE THEORY OF INTERDEPENDENCE, The Liberal vs The Realist View”; Journal of Singapore, July 18, 2005.

Four other subsidiary ... war from happening.?¶

And war causes environmental destruction which turns back the AC. Adley and Grant ’03 (Jessica and Andrea, Sierra Club of Canada, “The Environmental Consequences of War”, 8/19/03, http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/postings/war-and-environment.html)

Throughout history, war ... during and after war. 

Subpoint C: Environment

Economic growth is key to improving the environment. Taylor

Taylor  (Jerry - senior fellow at the Cato Institute, environmental policy, August 26th, 2002 Sustainable Development A Dubious Solution in Search of a Problem, Cato, http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa449.pdf)

If sustainable development ... liberty, and property.
Subpoint D: Growth and Poverty

By increasing trade and growth, the neg decreases poverty. Brockman, 13’

 Katie Brockman, cofounder for The Borgen Project, 2013 (“Capitalism Is Helping End Global Poverty,” The Economist, 6-11-13, Available Online at http://borgenproject.org/capitalism-is-helping-end-global-poverty/, Accessed on July 8th, 2013)

1.1 billion people ... of extreme poverty.

Poverty is the worst form of structural violence that kills as many people as a nuclear war. Abu-Jamal

Abu-Jamal, prominent social activist and author, ’98, A Quiet and Deadly Violence, Sept 19, http://www.flashpoints.net/mQuietDeadlyViolence.html

The deadliest form ... kids fight each other.