"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" cordato - TT's Lost in Tokyo

UK jury approves damage to power plant in defense of a commons/ other private property; libertarians and conservatives freak out by TokyoTom

See this surprising decision in the UK , letting climate-change protesters/trespassers off the hook for damages resulting from spray-painting a coal plant smokestack, on the grounds that a UK law "allows damage to be caused to property to prevent...

Does Cordato favor carbon taxes? McKitrick's "innovative carbon tax proposal" by TokyoTom

[Snark level - medium] [update below] Austrian economist Roy Cordato is playing at collectivism by bringing favorable attention to Ross McKitrick's "T3" carbon tax proposal on Cordato's blog, Environment NC (hosted by the John Locke...

Sophomoric optimism? by TokyoTom

Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's...

Cordato summarizes Austrian environmentalism by TokyoTom

Roy Cordato has cogently summarized his views and the work of his Austrian colleagues here: http://mises.org/story/1760 . Thoughts on what this framework implies for modern issues are welcome. Below are some favorite excerpts, with emphasis added: "Austrian...

Environmental Markets? Links to Austrians by TokyoTom

Here's a partial list of useful articles, alphabetically by author: Terry L. Anderson and J. Bishop Grewell Property Rights Solutions for the Global Commons: Bottom-Up or Top-Down? http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?10+Duke+Envtl.+L.+&+Pol'y...
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