Does anyone know of any detailed articles or excerpts dealing with an-cap/austrian economics and the environment?
Bob Murphy has a chapter in his “PIG guide to captialism” called “How capitalism will save the environment.” It’s a good intro but that’s about it. Too brief to be really powerful.
And how exactly do I get the right to barr people from a stretch of land I have no other connection to than that I patrol it daily? If I grow corn then I can not have another grow beets on the same land. In this case the farmland is scarce. But if I am patroling some forrest to keep the wildlife safe, surely another can do the same at the same time? There is no scarcity of paths to patrol in a forrest.
There is no scarcity of paths to patrol, but there is a scarcity of the amount of time you have to patrol these paths. You would be limited in your patrol area by the need to stop patroling and produce food instead. Of course you could pay someone else to patrol, but again you would only be able to pay for the amout of partol service that you have left over after providing for your own survival. It wouldn’t be economical to just horde an unused area to yourself.
I found this to be very helpful
Yeah, that’s a great one. I mentioned it in the thread on homesteading the sea.
True. But what if we are talking about a flat grassland and I use a dirt bike to cover huge distances? What if I am wealthy and on a whim hire 10 riders? In order to give myself a huge private unspoiled preserve resort area, albeit under the guise of philantropic conservation? Is that down with everyone?
How well do you pay your riders? Where can I interview for the position?[;)]
Even though this was a thread about wildlife reserves, this is an opportunity to point out that while someone may find a way to preserve wildlife, others may choose to preserve “recreational areas.”
I live in Oregon and enjoy dirt bike riding at a place called Sand Lake. Because it is government owned, the camping fee’s are always rising, that bathrooms are always filthy, and there are curfew’s and rules about alcohol consumption.
If you would let me ride after midnight and not bother me because I’m enjoying a beer, I would gladly pay to use a part of your land. Maybe that is how you got rich…
Hehehe.
Mind you I am not necessarily against this sort of thing. I am just trying to think.
This interview with Walter Block when he was at the Fraser Institute is excellent. He doesn’t tackle the problem posted here specifically, but he does speak at length on free market solutions to environmental problems. There are five parts. Start here: