Fellow libertarians, O Cynical Ones, you might be surprised to note that, at least in some cases, it MAY be possible to educate thick-headed and corrupt government bureaucrats and political appointees about the reasons for policy failures, and the government MIGHT even actually decide to cean up its...
Searching for solutions to problems is admirable, but the effectiveness of such efforts will be limited if they are based on a faulty or incomplete understanding of the problem. Many of those who have some familiarity with the "tragedy of the commons" paradgim outlined by Garrett Hardin can...
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Readers from RealClimate , thanks for your visit. Here`s my comment with embedded links: #188 / 245: Neal & Jim, thanks for the references to the successful experiments in Iceland, NZ and the Alaskan pollock fishery to replace the tragedy of the government commons with property rights approaches...
Here , in the belly of the Beast - the " RealClimate" blog by climate scientists. Anybody wanna chip in? So far, comments by yours truly are as follows: 134. TokyoTom Says: 8 May 2009 at 11:56 AM Gavin, thanks for a thoughtful post that I hope will be brought to the attention of every so-called...
In a recent post , Andy Revkin , a New York Times reporter who blogs on energy and environmental issues at his "Dot Earth" blog, asks "When whale species, like the minke, are no longer rare, can they be both admired and eaten — as North Americans do with bison — or is it simply...
I've blogged before on the "tragedy of the commons"/bureaucratic mismanagement problems that underlie the crashing of the West Coast salmon fisheries and that imperil the giant Atlantic bluefin tuna ; a recent article by Fortune shows that there are glimmers of hope for ocean fisheries...
Dave Neiwert , a thoughtful voice on the left and with an experienced, informed view on America's right-wing racist fringe, has a rather confused post up on whaling on his blog, Orcinus . http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/02/standing-up-to-japan.html . Neiwert sends a mixed message by saying we need...