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Third-World land theft & the tragedy of the commons: Mother Jones ponders, "Conservation: Indigenous peoples' enemy No. 1?" by TokyoTom

[Post note: Anybody see the movie Avatar? Well that's how native people perceive conservation efforts - as helping governing elites to steal their lands.] The Mother Jones magazine has been running a series of on-line articles which exemplify how...

[Update: Comments added] Iain Murray: Another libertarian makes climate policy proposals! by TokyoTom

Thank goodness! Another libertarian/conservative (see my previous posts on Bruce Yandle and Gene Callahan , and see Jon Adler`s 2000 piece ) wants to seize the day and promote useful policies in the face of popular/legislative concerns over climate change...

Not Climate Change Welfare, But Capitalism and Free Markets by TokyoTom

... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate...

Boycott China and India? by TokyoTom

"Advanced democracies export their problems to emerging economies, thus shoving the whole problem neatly under the carpet. If the west really believed in being good global citizens we would (just for starters) refuse to trade with China and India...

Using the State to solve common resource problems? by TokyoTom

 

 

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Libertarian denial; clever but not wise by TokyoTom

[Previously posted on a recent thread ( Malthus and Mein Kampf come to Cork - thanks, Sean Corrigan !) in response to someone who is concerned about environmental problems but is unfamiliar with Austrian approaches.] Man is clever but not wise ("homo...
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