Tournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All
The World Bank, 2008, Poverty and the Environment: Understanding Linkages at the Household Level, p. 14-5
  OECD, 2008, Natural Resources and Pro-Poor Growth: The Economics and Politics, DAC Guidelines and Reference Series, (Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development), p. 17
  Naazneen H. Barma assistant prof of national security affairs @ Naval Postgraduate School, Kai Kaiser senior economist in Public Sector Governance Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management part of World Bank), Tuan Minh Le senior economist, World Bank, assistant prof @ Suffolk, Lorena Viñuela consultant in Public Sector Governance Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management part of World Bank), Rents to Riches?: The Political Economy of Resource-Led Development, The World Bank,  2012
  Tim Heffernan writes about heavy industry and the natural world, interview with the project director of underground development @ Bingham, The New Bronze Age: We’re Entering the Era of Tough Ore, July 8, 2013, Pacific Standard magazine, http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/the-new-bronze-age-entering-the-era-of-tough-ore-60868/
 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolve
 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/125830?redirectedFrom=negate#eid
  Thondhlana 13 Thondhlana, Gladman, and Edwin Muchapondwa. Dependence on Environmental Resources and Implications for Household Welfare: Evidence from the Kalahari Drylands, South Africa. No. 370. 2013
 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/should
  Papineau, David, "Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/naturalism/.
  Collier and stingl (John Collier, Michael Stingl, (1993), Evolutionary Naturalism and the Objectivity of Morality)
  Richard J. Lazarus Georgetown University Law Center, Human Nature, the Laws of Nature, and the Nature of Environmental Law, Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series Working Paper No. 847685, downloaded from SSRN, Issue No 3, 2006
  Reuters, China 2013 foreign investment inflows hit record high, Jan 16, 2014, reporting by Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing, editing Jacqueline Wong, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/16/us-china-economy-fdi-idUSBREA0F0EI20140116
  REUTERS, Jan 11, 2014, After Pushback, Indonesia is likely to ease ban on mineral exports, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/business/international/after-pushback-indonesia-is-likely-to-ease-ban-on-mineral-exports.html?_r=0
  Source Watch project of CoalSwarm and Center for Media and Democracy, Vietnam and Coal, last modified 21 Dec 2013,  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vietnam_and_coal
  Greenpeace International, Mining impacts, April 15, 2013, http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/coal/Mining-impacts/
  Nyakundi Michieka graduate research assistant, environmental and natural resource economics, West Virginia Uni, Jerald Fletcher prof of energy, environmental and natural resource economics @ west virginia Uni, Wesley Burnett research assistant prof, division of resource management @ west virginia uni, The Cost of Energy—The Environmental Effects of Coal Production in China, 2012 http://www.usaee.org/usaee2012/submissions/OnlineProceedings/The20cost20of20energy_env_effects20of20coal_Burnett.pdf
  John Podesta Distinguished visitor from practice @ Georgetown Law, founder of thinktank Center for American Progress, White House Chief of Staff for Pres Clinton, Peter Ogden 2012-2013, White House National Security Staff as director for climate change and environmental policy, Center for American Progress, The Security Implications of Climate Change, The Washington Quarterly, Vol 31, No 1, Winter 2007-08, pp 115-138 (Article), MIT press
  Jonathan Watts award winning journalist, The Guardian, The Carbon Trap: Can China Survive without Coal? The continuing importance of coal present a dilemma, Oct 26, 2010, Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-china-avoid-the-carbon-trap-of-coalandpage=3
  Mead 98, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy at Council on Foreign Relations Walter Russell, “Rule 1: Don’t Panic. Rule 2: Panic first.” Esquire, Oct, ProQuest
  Jonathan Watts award winning journalist, The Guardian, The Carbon Trap: Can China Survive without Coal? The continuing importance of coal present a dilemma, Oct 26, 2010, Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-china-avoid-the-carbon-trap-of-coalandpage=3
  Robin Webster, Five graphs that tell the future story of coal, 16 Dec 2013, CarbonBrief, http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/12/five-graphs-that-tell-the-future-story-of-coal/
 http://www.independent.ie/business/world-bank-reports-stronger-growth-as-advanced-economies-continue-to-improve-29918636.html. January 15th 2014.
  Rasoul Sorkhabi, PhD research prof specialty in geology of the earth, Uni of Utah, Why so much oil in the middle east? Issue 1, Vol 7, GeoExPro petroleum geoscience magazine 2010, http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Why_So_Much_Oil_in_the_Middle_East/58d94fc1.aspx
  W. Corbett Dabbs (December 1996). Oil production and Environmental Damage. American University. http://www1.american.edu/ted/projects/tedcross/xoilpr15.htm
  Jeremy Warner assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph, is one of Britain’s leading business and economics commentators, Oil is both the lifeblood and the poison of the global economy, The Telegraph, 21 Nov 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/oilprices/10465340/Oil-is-both-the-lifeblood-and-the-poison-of-the-global-economy.html
  T.E. Bearden LTC U.S. Army (ret) Director of Association of Distinguished American Scientists and Fellow Emeritus, Alpha Foundation’s Institute for Advanced Study, The Unnecessary Energy Crisis: How to Solve It Quickly. June 24th 2000, http://www.seaspower.com/EnergyCrisis-Bearden.htm

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: PV Pen AJ | Judge: John Sims
Govts dehumanize and coerce. advocating compliance to CV laws allows for more coercion. 

1 Thoreau, Henry David, 1849, Civil Disobedience
Looking to the state to solve problems only strengthens it.
1 MARTIN 1984 (Dr. and associate prof of science, technology, and society and the Uni of Wollongong, AU, Uprooting War,www.uow.edu/au/arts/sts/bmartin)

We must not be coerced by govts -- they donand#39;t work for the good of the people.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1849, Civil Disobedience

The state can justify any atrocity
 HARDT AND NEGRY, 2000, EMPIRE, 46-47

ALT - Individually resist the state and CV laws
Alfred Taiaiake director of the indigenous governance program @ u of victoria, 1999, Peace, Power, and Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto)

It is counterproductive to demand reform from the government -- we must act against oppression

Thoreau, Henry David, 1849, Civil Disobedience

Engelen - There is a distinction between voting and compulsory voting.

OED vote http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/224715?rskey=dWcaxaandresult=1#eid

Jackman, Simon assistant prof and victoria schuck faculty scholar, dept of poli sic @ stanford, Compulsory Voting, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 

Secret ballot makes CV impossible

Sarah Birch Reader in Politics at Uni of Essex, UK Full Participation: A Comparative Study of Compulsory Voting, United Nations Publications, United Nations Uni Press, 2009

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peak to Peak RJ | Judge: Bekah Boyer
Value morality

humans have a right to independence
Arthur Ripstein – Force and Freedom, 2009

independence is relational
Arthur Ripstein – Force and Freedom, 2009

Forcing people to vote is bad for freedom
IDEA Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Compulsory Voting, Mar 21, 2012, http://www.idea.int/vt/compulsory_voting.cfm

Compulsory voting creates a slippery slope, allowing for other violations of independence. Anthony Ciccone, JD Candidate, 2002, "The Constitutional Right to Vote is not a Duty," 23 Hamline J. Pub. L. and Pol'y 325, Spring, p. 350-51