Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
V: Gov't Obligation
VC: Protect Citizens

States not moral agent
Lloyd Gerson, professor of philosophy, “The Morality of Nations: An Aristotelian Approach”, Aristotle’s Politics Today, 2007

State duty to protect citizens
West
Robin West. "Rights, Capabilities, and the Good Society." Fordham Law Review Vol. 69 Issue 5.

Advocacy Text: The Democratic Republic of Congo will prioritize environmental protection over coltan extraction when the two conflict. I reserve the right to clarify.

All evidence from the cites below. AC is basically coltan extraction leads to:

Soil erosion, no food for people
Water pollution, death from diahhrea
Loss of biodiversity, extinction.

Celine Moyroud and John Katunga, authors from Institute for Security Studies, “Coltan exploitation in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Scarcity and Surfeit: The Ecology of Africa’s Conflicts, 2002

Gunilla Ölund Wingqvist, Department of Economics at University of Gothenburg, “Democratic Republic of Congo – Environmental and Climate Change Policy Brief, University of Gothenburg, 2008

David Pimentel, C. Harvey, P. Resosudarmo, K. Sinclair, D. Kurz, M. McNair, S. Crist, L. Shpritz, L. Fitton, R. Saffouri, R. Blair, “ Environmental and Economic Costs of Soil Erosion and Conservation Benefits”, American Association for the Advancement of Sciencem 1995

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, “COLTAN, MINING AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO”, eco-cell.com, 2005

et al, Dr. Russell Alan Mittermeier is a primatologist, herpetologist and biological anthropologist. He holds Ph.D. from Harvard in Biological Anthropology and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has conducted fieldwork for over 30 years on three continents and in more than 20 countries in mainly tropical locations. He is the President of Conservation International and he is considered an expert on biological diversity. Mittermeier has formally discovered several monkey species. From Chapter One of the book Biodiversity Hotspots – F.E. Zachos and J.C. Habel (eds.), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20992-5_1, # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011. This evidence also internally references Norman Myers, a very famous British environmentalist specialising in biodiversity. available at: http://www.academia.edu/1536096/Global_biodiversity_conservation_the_critical_role_of_hotspots