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There has lately been a big push from the federal government for alternative or green energy. Obviously, any government push of anything correlates with a push of money from someone's pockets to someone else's pockets, and certainly this observation does not find an exception with the recent...
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I am trying to understand the status of wilderness wildlife in a free society from a natural rights perspective. In particular, I am interested in what could have prevented someone from slaughtering all of the buffalo on the great plains for simple sport (I understand that the actual events were more...
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I have been listening to Rothbard and wondering about wildlife, particularly game animals like the whitetail deer. Who owns the deer and how, in a free society, can we prevent the tradgedy of the commons? It is easy to see how private ownership of a deer herd might encourage good management, but how...
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I'm having a debate on another forum about this subject. I was just curious about your input on the current state of it. The argument has evolved into a discussion of monopolies, with one of the participants arguing about how water is necessarily a monopoly commodity and thereby requires government...
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Hello, LvMI Community! I am preparing a monograph for the conclusion of my Undergrad Economics course, and I am planning to write about natural resource use and conservation, adopting the Austrian school's approach. Basically, I would like to show that a free market does not cause resource's...
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Hello all...I have been educating my "liberal" friends on the toxic Cap & Trade legislation. I got this response from one of my environmentalist friends. It's absurd. This is what we are up against...to wit: Be careful. Don't become a Republican nationalist. Ron Paul's people...
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Next will come the attacks on Big Meat. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink
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On the other hand I wonder why some people are obsessed with trying to come up with 'libertarian' solutions for non-problems, instead of, say, coming up with ideas to drastically limit, or abolish government. Juan, the focus of Austrian economics with relation to environmental conflict is a problem...
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[quote user="TokyoTom"] hjmaiere : "anthropogenic global warming is a manufactured issue, selected specifically for its ability to slough off `libertarian approaches.`" While I respect your suspicions (as I have repeatedly acknowledged, unfortunately with a big government politics...
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[quote user="Jon Irenicus"] Whether or not global warming is a fact of the matter, Austrians should be discussing libertarian approaches to it, so that should the evidence ultimately be found in favour of GW, we have a ready response to silence those who'd rather use the heavy hand of coercion...