1. There is an excellent interview of Dr. Ron Paul now up at Grist, the environmental news and commentary site, that explores some of his views on environmental and energy issues. I am with him in principle but think he has underestimated the seriousness of the climate change problem and not seriously...
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on Thu, Oct 18 2007
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Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's flaw is that he is over confident of his own intelligence...
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on Mon, Oct 15 2007
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[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added), followed by a copy...
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"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. Then there is the small matter of cleaning up our...
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on Fri, Oct 12 2007
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How exactly do you transfer commons into private ownership in a fair way, even for easily divided up stuff like land? That's the trillion dollar question that someone asked me on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments ) regarding my suggestion that better definition...
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on Fri, Oct 12 2007
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