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Boycott China and India? by TokyoTom

"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...

Using the State to solve common resource problems? by TokyoTom

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...

Libertarian denial; clever but not wise by TokyoTom

Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer) and we remain very much a part of the ecosystems that we pretend to master even as we swamp them with the growing demands that our rapidly improving technology and burgeoning populations...