Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
Should is defined by the New Oxford American Dictionary as used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness. Value is morality. Util
Blumenson writes,
Blumenson, Eric: Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School; “Killing In Good Conscience: What's Wrong With Sunstein And Vermeule's Lesser Evil Argument For Capital Punishment And Other Human Rights Violations?” New Criminal Law Review 10 New Crim. L. R. 210
Although it cannot...in equal measure.

Policy making is educational.

Shaw writes,
PEDAGOGY IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Using Role-Play Scenarios in the IR Classroom: An Examination of Exercises on Peacekeeping Operations and Foreign Policy Decision Making CAROLYN M. SHAW Wichita State University
The use of ...our ‘‘national interest.’’

Ecuador plans to drill.
Edwards November 2013.
Guy EdwardsResearch Fellow, Center for Environmental Studies; co-director, Climate and Development Lab at Brown University and Keith Madden. Ecuador's climate ambition faces test post Yasuni. Responding to Climate Change. November 11, 2013. Lexis-Nexis
Ecuador proposed...have been avoided.

President Correa has commited to drilling.
Dudenhoefer 2013
David Dudenhoefer. Ecuador’s Amazon Drilling Plan Raises Concerns Over Environment, Oil Dependency. World Politics Review. 08 Oct 2013. http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/13279/ecuador-s-amazon-drilling-plan-raises-concerns-over-environment-oil-dependency
On Aug. 15,...exhausts its reserves.

Thus, the affirmative plan: The government of Ecuador will prohibit all new oil activities and road construction in Yasuni.
Advantage 1 – Biodiversity

Finer and Jenkins 2010.
Bass MS, Finer M, Jenkins CN, Kreft H, Cisneros-Heredia DF, et al. (2010) Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8767. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008767
Peres 143 argues that... significant conservation value.

 Bass et al. write.
Bass MS, Finer M, Jenkins CN, Kreft H, Cisneros-Heredia DF, et al. (2010) Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8767. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008767
Assessing endemism in...for the Amazon 136.

Deforestation and environmental degradation that destroys biodiversity.
Bass et al 2 write.
Bass MS, Finer M, Jenkins CN, Kreft H, Cisneros-Heredia DF, et al. (2010) Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park. PLoS ONE 5(1): e8767. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008767
Explicit in the ..of commercial crops 174.

The loss of biodiversity leads to extinction. DINER writes.
David, Ph.D., Planetary Science and Geology, "The Army and the Endangered Species Act: Who's Endangering Whom?," Military Law Review, 143 Mil. L.
Rev. 161. 1993.
To accept that ..to the abyss.

Loss hampers important medical research. Baki writes.
“The Yasuní-ITT Initiative Is a Practical Climate Solution That Must Be Embraced at Durban.”  Ivonne Baki,previously served as Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States and as Ecuador’s Minister of Foreign Trade, Industry, Regional Integration, Fisheries, and Competitiveness. NewSecurity Beat/ Wilson Center. November 28, 2011. http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2011/11/the-yasuni-itt-initiative-is-a-practical-climate-solution-that-must-be-embraced-at-durban/#.Uq_hkpFwcs0
This incredible biodiversity pike,”... he warns (see video above). 

Advantage 2 – Growth.

Resource extraction specialization hurts the economy. Gylfason writes.
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Research Professor of Economics, University of Iceland; Research Fellow, CEPR. "Natural resources, education, and economic development." European economic review 45.4 (2001): 847-859.
Four main channels ..in the world.

Higher resource levels translate to lower per-capita growth. Gylfason 2 writes.
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Research Professor of Economics, University of Iceland; Research Fellow, CEPR. "Natural resources, education, and economic development." European economic review 45.4 (2001): 847-859.
Figure 1 ...pattern be explained?

Tournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Plan texts | Judge:
Plan Text: Transitioning nations will prohibit all new mercury mining, phase out existing mercury mining operations by 2020. I reserve the right to clarify.