Calling all Austrians! I am starting up a Canadian branch of an American free market environmental organisation. The organization tackles environmental and poverty problems from a free market/laissez faire, technological, and positive angle. Directly countering the message of the catastrophists of all stripes and their statist solutions I am looking to recruit bloggers/writers to start commenting on Canadian and Global issues. I thought that members of the Austrian community would be particularly interested. We will be associated with the American organisation, but will have full editorial control. Let me know if you would like to be part of this venture - contact me for the full details.
[email protected] I will be able to pay for the content, so if anyone is interested, I can get back with numbers
Of course all submissions will be welcomed. Best regards Redmond
Redmond:The organization tackles environmental and poverty problems from a free market/laissez faire, technological, and positive angle.
How does one tackle environmental and poverty problems from a technological angle?
How does one tackle environmental and poverty problems from a positive angle?
"The market is a process." - Ludwig von Mises, as related by Israel Kirzner. "Capital formation is a beautiful thing" - Chloe732.
Poverty can only be eliminated by thrift, slow accumulation of savings, increase in capital, and increase in investment. It can eventually be removed, but only as far as slow and steady work of years can take you. So it should be arrogant of anyone to think he has a one-fix solution to such a complicated economic situation.
But as for environmental problems - look for free market solutions used in Hong Kong and Singapore? Singapore charges you for the usage of roads, because road usage is seen as a consumption of a service - this has reduced automobile movement and congestion and greatly improved the quality of air there.
On top of which, state property in water bodies and public spaces had long been auctioned away to private owners (including the tunnels under which the ferries pass).
Meaning that the property ownership ensures that the burden of keeping public spaces clean and healthy falls on a private owner, who can also charge a violator a compensation for littering or polluting his space. The result is two of the most densely populated cities in the world having zero filth or bad air.
So for more detail, look up for cases on these areas, which have been managed by brilliant civic authorities.
Canada has issues?
I didn't even know it had people.
HaHa.
Around 36 million.
How does one tackle environmental and poverty problems from a technological angle? How does one tackle environmental and poverty problems from a positive angle?
The application of technology has increased efficiency - "pollution" could really be described as the innefficient use of resources - "waste" is a by-product of a certain process that is unuseable for anything else - at least unuseable at a given price.
Recycling in North America is a gigantic waste of time and resources - it's ultimate effect is to subsidise a few scrap metal and paper companies, who would not take the materials off our hands for free. We used to have garbage pickers in north America, as the standard of living was so low that it made economic sense for some to spend their time sorting through garbage for materials for resale into the resource stream. Now we are so rich that we pay $330/ton simply to collect and sort out garbage.
Technology makes people more productive - increasing a persons productivity is the only way to improve ones material wealth.
The statist and greens want to "solve" percieved environmental "problems" throught the restriction of freedom, energy, wealth, etc, etc. At the root of their message is a negative, anti-human malthusianism - that rejects wealth and technology as a means of improving ones lot in life.
The positive one is one of freedom, economic growth - the cornucopiansim of Julian Simon.
So would you like to submit content to my site?