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I was reading "Who Owns Water" by Murray Rothbard as a part of Robert Wenzel's 30 day reading list ( http://mises.org/daily/2553/Who-Owns-Water ) and found Rothbard's anaysis quite peculiar. He writes: "Where there are underground rivers, the first appropriator can own his portion...
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Hey everybody. I was in a discussion with somebody about property rights and the environment. I said that a system of enforced property rights would protect people from abuses. For example, if you own part of a river and Dow Chemical dumps chemicals into the river and pollutes your part of the waterway...
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I got here rather late. I had been reading this thread from November 30th! I see it is still alive however here on December 18th, so here's my question. I've thought about this whole "environment" question many times. I take as my 1st example the Grand Canyon in the USA. When it was...
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Actually there's a lot you can check out... "Environmental Preservation: A Matter of Property" "Austrians on the Environment" "An Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics" "A Primer on Natural Resources and the Environment" "Environmentalism Without...
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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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Hey everybody! I'm very interested in libertarian and conservative "pro-constitution" ideas, but i have some problems with some thoughts in the movement(s), the anti-environmentalism for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfoP4SPd2Gs http://www.resistingthegreendragon.com/ They're...
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From the Financial Post CLIMATE OF CONFUSION Here are some key points The Government wants to appear as if it is "Doing something" to bring jobs to Ontario Shortly after Atlantic Wind & Solar Inc. heard about Ontario's lucrative incentives for green energy projects, the company did...
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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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I don’t think that the Mises-publications on environmentalism can withstand expert attacks. I now give you the *unique* opportunity to train fending of environmentalists by fending of me (I am a rather mediocre environmentalist so this is a good starting point). Imagine the following problem: Someone...
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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...