Who will regulate the regulator?
Given the choices of living a) in a communist utopia in which all your wants are provided for or b) in autarkic conditions in which you have to provide everything for yourself, barely managing to acquire subsistence and facing the threat of disease, injury and wild animals, which would you choose?
The latter. Any collectivism is slavery. 49% will always be slaves of the 51% w/ collectivism. That’s one reason I plan on leaving civ once I learn the necessary H/G skills. The woods of New Hampshire were inhabited by H/Gs centuries ago so I don’t see why my survivalist lifestyle should fail if I know the skills.
How so? I think I’d rather live in an “HG” society, where aggression is outlawed, than a State commune. In fact, the former case would be more affluent than the latter, due to the nature of non-aggression.
u should start thinking about learning the skills yourself. Move up to the wilderness of NH and escape collectivist civ once and for all.
In addition to the Rothbard video, here is an Interview with Walter Block from the mid-80’s discussing his book, ‘Free Market Economics and the Environment: A Reconciliation.’ I found it very fascinating and convincing (the interviewer sounded like she becoming convinced too)
The book in pdf
Voters, you dummy! 
In addition to the Rothbard video, here is an Interview with Walter Block from the mid-80’s discussing his book, ‘Free Market Economics and the Environment: A Reconciliation.’ I found it very fascinating and convincing (the interviewer sounded like she becoming convinced too)
Here’s another book (which I have not read) from Terry L. Anderson, an esteemed Free Market Environmentalist*: http://www.perc.org/articles/article512.php
*Terry directs PERC, Property & Environment Research Center. If you have any really good questions, I might send him a mail if I were you.
EDIT- Here is a complete list of the works he has written/edited for more information on specific environmental issues:
- Terry L. Anderson & Bruce Yandle (eds), Agriculture and the Environment- Searching for Greener Pastures, Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 2001.
- Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal, Free Market Environmentalism, New York, NY, Palgrave, 2001. (The original 1991 edition was published by Westview Press).
- Terry L. Anderson and Henry I. Miller (eds), The Greening of U.S. Foreign Policy,Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 2000.
- Terry L. Anderson (ed), Political Environmentalism: Going Behind the Green Curtain, Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 2000.
- Terry L. Anderson and Alexander James (eds), The Politics and Economics of Park Management, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001.
- Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal, Enviro-Capitalists, Doing Good While Doing Well, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997.
- Terry L. Anderson and Pamela S. Snyder, Water Markets: Priming the Invisible Pump, Washington D.C., Cato, 1997.
- Terry L. Anderson (ed), Breaking the Environmental Policy Gridlock, Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 1997.
- Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill (eds), Water Marketing—The Next Generation, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997.
- Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill (eds), Privatization Process: A Worldwide Perspective, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1996.
- Terry L. Anderson, Sovereign Nations or Reservations? An Economic History of American Indians, San Francisco, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1995.
- Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill (eds), Wildlife in the Marketplace Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1995.
On an less related note, this academic also wrote the article “An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West” (http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf) and its subsequent expansion book The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier (http://www.amazon.com/Not-So-Wild-West-Economics/dp/0804748543).
DOUBLE EDIT- Here’s another article by Rothbard entitled “Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution.” http://mises.org/daily/2120
That’s very good info but in the meantime we need to start thinking about alternative living since the gov. is still poisoning us as it is. Check out infowars.
u should start thinking about learning the skills yourself. Move up to the wilderness of NH and escape collectivist civ once and for all.
Hey friend! =) While I am interested about living in the wilderness, later in my life, my idea is a bit different:
- I am not really interested in moving to NH, if I decide to do this in the future. Rather, I would like to stay here in Alaska.
- I do not want to do this to escape civilization, but rather for the solitude and individual empowerment self-sufficiency provides. It would be great not relying upon anyone else. (I only want to do this for about ten years and when I am in my 30s-40s).
- I would like to be able to continue my writing/studies in the wilderness, lest I become bored.
- I certainly do not think this is the right path for everyone or even most people.
- I enjoy the benefits of Capitalism, so I would not want to do this my entire life.
If I were you I’d move to NH. The FED owns tons of land in Alaska so I’d stay away and move to a much freer state.
one could perfectly well live in affluence, if he knows how to survive in the wilderness properly.>>>>
That sounds like it would take a lot of calories. Or were you suggesting that one bring tech from the civilized world to the woods?
The woods of New Hampshire were inhabited by H/Gs centuries ago so I don’t see why my survivalist lifestyle should fail if I know the skills.>>>>
Well I hope you are bringing some friends. Long-term survival as a lone homo sapiens aborigine is widely considered to be very costly in terms of calories.
If I were you I’d move to NH. The FED owns tons of land in Alaska so I’d stay away and move to a much freer state.
Oh, they do not really own it, so I would just settle there “illegally” and homestead in the wilderness. I could give two craps less about State “laws.” And I would defend my property with as much force as requisite.
Thanks for the link, though, mate!