Tournament: USC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough Goldsmith | Judge: Korinski, Matt
Uniqueness: Because the aff is arguing the harms of oil, this disadvantage is mutually exclusive because I’m the only one arguing for the extraction of oil.
Mexico’s oil industry is currently growing right now.
EP can end up with devastating impacts to the US debt
A. The US is receiving oil from Mexico, a developing country. At the rate they are going, they can effectively develop Mexico. Patrice Hill The Washington Times, Thursday, September 12, 2013
Mexico is poised to...
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wealth has the potential to transform the entire region, he said.
However if Mexico is to prioritize the environment then that will force us to receive our primary oil supply from Canada. There are two problems with this, 

1. It will be a failed opportunity for Mexico to develop
   2. Canada is now using a certain type of oil, tar sands oil, which is much more expensive AND hurts the environment more.
   B.  NYU Law School’s Environmental Law Center writes:
   Building the keystone pipeline...
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    and did at least $20 billion damage to the economy.
   C. The impact of Tar sands pipeline spills on employment and the economy. a report by Cornell University Global Labor Institute Lara Skinner, Ph.D and Sean Sweeney, Ph.D B. Cornell University Global labor institute writes:
   There are negative impacts on...
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   states is about $76 billion annually.
   D. If we receive this oil from Canada, then it will cause a massive increase in American debt. The impact of American debt is not only worldwide, but has devastating impacts to developing countries.
   Marcelo de Paiva Abreu, Manmohan Agarwal, Sergey Kadochnikov, Mia Mikic, John Whalley, Yu Yongding. CIGI writes: Task Force on Developing Countries. The Centre for International Governance Innovation
   The Effect of the World Financial Crisis on Developing Countries: An Initial Assessment  
   For the developing countries, which have become increasingly...
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   tariff cuts and the encouragement of preferential trade agreements among them.

Tournament: USC | Round: Quads | Opponent: Multiple | Judge: Multiple
V: morality
Vc: max well-being
Nagel: 1 Thomas Nagel, The View From Nowhere, HUP, 1986: 156-168.
The over riding factor in human behavior is happiness.
Sensory pleasure is good...
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his own pleasure
C1: RE incerases well-being and grows the economy
A. Natural Resources lead to an increase in the quality of life and prevent people’s harm.
 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. 35
Natural resources play a vital...
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periods of natural and social disaster.
B.  Natural Resources are vital to growing the economy
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
Natural capital contributes directly to economic incomes...
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exports and national income in developing countries.
C. This economic growth proves to be an easy and significant way to promote social welfare.
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? Andrew E. Clark Paris School of Economics and IZA Claudia Senik Paris School of Economics and IZA Discussion Paper No. 5595 March 2011 IZA
in every representative national survey ever done, a significant
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life satisfaction scores in higher- income countries
C2. Developing countries play a key role in the global economy. Without developing countries continuing resource extraction, the global economy could collapse.
 Four of the developing countries even account for a large portion of all economic growth in the entire world. Global Sherpa (2010) writes:
 The BRIC countries label refers to a...
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account for more than 25 percent of global GDP.
IMPACTS
If the global economy was to collapse then it will lead to nuclear war, causing the death of millions, if not, billions.
Mead 09 and98
Walter Russel Mead - the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World. - 2/4/09
crisis has weakened the power of...
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will pose a much greater danger to the world order