Tournament: Washburn Rural | Round: Semis | Opponent: Shawnee Mission East RT | Judge:
Text: The United States federal government ought not implement sections of HR 1613 that constitute economic engagement with Mexico unless Mexico adopts and enforces legislation for sea turtle conservation abiding by standards outlined in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna.
The US should condition engagement based on Mexican adoption of international sea turtle conservation standards; similar policies towards Mexico empirically solve for protection of marine biodiversity.
Edith Brown Weiss1, John Howard Jackson2 and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder3, 4-30-2008, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law @ Georgetown, A.B., Stanford; J.D., Harvard; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; LL.D.(Hon.), Chicago-Kent; LL.D. (Hon.), University of Heidelberg1, Director; Institute of International Economic Law, University Professor @ Georgetown, A.B., Princeton; J.D., University of Michigan; LL.D. (Hon.), Hamburg University, Germany; LL.D. (Hon.), European University Institute, Florence, Italy2, a senior international lawyer and heads the Investment Program of the International Institute on Sustainable Development (IISD)3, “Reconciling Environment and Trade,” http://books.google.com/books?id=PeTVvZW7JRoCanddq=Sea+Turtles+MExico+Sanctionsandsource=gbs_navlinks_s
Several international agreements upon which a similar treaty
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to recognize the IDCA and to lift the ban on tuna imports from signatories of the Declaration of Panama. See Cadeddu, supra note 53.
Conditioning economic engagement with Mexico on adoption of sea turtle protection policy prevents population extinction.
Center for Biological Diversity, 7-15-2013, a nonprofit membership organization known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action and scientific petitions, “Tell Mexico: Stop Killing Endangered Sea Turtles,” http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/o/2167/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13749
Each year at least 2,000 endangered loggerhead sea turtles
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. Sea turtles need protection on both sides of the border, and I urge Mexico to act now to save these ancient and vanishing animals.
Destruction of the sea turtle population causes extinction – brink is now.
Todd Steiner, xx-xx-2010, Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Executive Director at Turtle Island Restoration Network, San Francisco Bay Area, “Are Sea Turtles Worth Saving?” http://www.bonaireturtles.org/explore/are-sea-turtles-worth-saving/
Sea turtles demonstrate the ultimate lesson of ecology –
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, try to take apart a clock and just throw away one of the pieces that doesn’t look that important. Put the clock back together and see if it still works.