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I consider myself to be a fairly staunch Libertarian. I believe that the government should be limited to protecting life, liberty, and property (natural rights) from being harmed by others. I also think that much environmental law could simply be handled with tort law (for damage to property) or criminal...
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"Nadjeschda, I am a libertarian and an environmentalist" Great, I knew they must hang up somewhere! Yes I have a critic to a particular Mises publication; it was one of the audio courses. There was an example with an old lady having her laundry stained by soot from a nearby chimney. Instead...
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This is a true question; I have not made my mind up about this. To keep things simple I first limit the question to resources which can be mined. As I understand the common error of Greens and the "Club of Rome" is to mix up resources and reserves. While resources are defined as what is accessible...
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Important: to read this comment you will have some basic knowledge about the (somewhat tricky) concept of „ecological footprint“*. I will begin with an important distinction „relative poverty' compared to „absolute poverty“. Historically seen the term relative poverty...
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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...