Austrians and the Environment

[John_James]

@jctruman

Here government would just make blanket regulations regarding the distrubution and handling of certain chemicals and pollutants. So, for instance, no one would have access to cesium 137 or benzene without extensive checks and paperwork. It would head it off at the pass before it starts to cause problems.

Oh I see. So you just make a law against something and it prevents the bad thing from happening. Kind of like how laws against child labor and prostitution in 3rd world countries prevent child labor and prostitution from occuring in 3rd world countries.

It makes you wonder why they haven’t outlawed cancer and AIDS yet.

What about Dodo birds, Great Plains buffalo and the collapse of Atlantic cod fisheries. All, except perhaps the last example, existed under a more-or-less free market framework. All resulted in market failures.

It would really be helpful if you would at least try to get through some of the resources I provide before continuing along with notions that are addressed (and debunked) in them. It would save a lot of time.

I’m not even saying “here’s a bunch of books; read em.” I mean the Stossel video I’ve posted twice in this thread now is only 15 minutes. If you would have watched it just 8 minutes and seven seconds in, you’d see the fish example addressed. 11minutes and sixteen seconds in, you’ll see the buffalo example addressed.

I am trying to help you. You could at least try and help yourself. (Unless of course you’re less interested in actually learning anything and more interested in just spouting your own fallacious notions and trying to convince yourself you’re right.)

There aren’t necessarily more resources but more resources are more accessible to average citizens.

So lemme get this straight. The more money the government takes from average citizens, the more money the average citizens have access to? Yeah I suppose that makes sense.

How do you designate otherwise public goods as private property? The ocean, the air, space?

Again, there are entire treatises written on this. I’ve given you plenty of links (to works of varying length and multiple formats)…from video of hour long lectures, to simple newspaper-length articles. If you’re not going to bother to look at any of them, I don’t see how I can help you.

And fish and game populations that move around an area. Can they ever be privately owned?

One more example. From a previous thread.

Please look at these things.

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I forgot to add some more for you:

“The Feds versus the Indians”:

“It was also official government policy to slaughter as many buffalo as possible as a means of eventually starving out the Indians. It was not just the “tragedy of the commons” that was responsible for the near extinction of the American buffalo; it was official U.S. government policy.”

I guess there goes your notion of government protecting the wildlife

And here’s an interesting look at the idea of land rights from the perspective of the natives:

“Libertarians and Indians: Proprietary Justice and Aboriginal Land Rights” [PDF]