This interview of Milton Friedman concerns Libertarism and for the beggining of it property rights and the Environment. One of the topics was that costs are imposed on others through air pollution. Milton friedman justified that when the costs imposed on property owners are ambiguous there is a role…

Many of the instances discussed in that thread concerned violations of property rights when the perpatrator could easily be identified. For air pollution somebody cannot sue everyone with a car, would the only way for enforcing clean air standards would be mandating pollution requirements and standa…

I was largely referring to the very second post which contained a mountain of resources which do address this issue. My guess is you, like the OP of that thread just don’t care enough to investigate those resources to get the answer to your question. If I’m wrong, and you are willing to put forth …

The question is a complex question fallacy because it assumes the government and its monopoly courts exist - the defining feature of a private law society would be the absence of a government or monopoly court system with which to impose things like environmental regulations. To the extent that the…

Thank you for your response. Before any action the government takes it must make sure that the costs of the action do not outweigh the benifits. Your answer explain most sources of pollution but what about things like cars? How would one deal with the pollution of cars because so many people have th…

For the third time. See here. If you really want to get anywhere you’re going to have to learn to help yourself at some point and grab the rafts people throw you. Even if you may have to swim a little way to reach them.

Thank you for your response. Before any action the government takes it must make sure that the costs of the action do not outweigh the benifits. Your answer explain most sources of pollution but what about things like cars? How would one deal with the pollution of cars because so many people have t…

There’s a lot here that is simply being assumed - that car pollution needs to be “dealt with” and so on. There are an infinite number of potential solutions to real pollution problems created by automobiles or other sources (Rothbard mentions road privatization in combination with legal liability o…

Property Rights and the Environment

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John_James April 19, 2012, 7:42pm 2

Did you happen to catch the thread from a couple weeks ago with almost the same title as this one?

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