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I'd say Jon has the basics right. Basic common law principles have already wored through this stuff in connection with various pollution cases. What this means in the case of adjoining properties is that if either owner starts a new, noisy use that offends his neighbor, his neighbor has a claim for...
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Some minor points. I'll let everything else stand. [quote user="TokyoTom"] [...] Those most interested in stopping the war obviously aren't in power. [...] [/quote] Yet those who would put together an inter-governmental panel on climate change are. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars consume...
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[quote user="Donny with an A"] [...] The important consideration is how concentrations of CO2 have changed over time. Atmospheric CO2 trends since the industrial revolution have not correlated with atmospheric temperature, and the proportion of isotopes of CO2 in the atmosphere does not match...
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Just wondering, how would private ownership of airspace work? Could businesses and individuals just buy out tracts of airspace where they could fly their planes? Also, what impact would this have on pollution? Could individuals sue others for polluting their airspace? Would this really have an effect...
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Let's say man-made global warming is a real threat. In the abscence of anarcho-capitalism, what law would you support to address this issue? I see much hostility here toward the "social engineers" (aka most environmentalists) since none of their statist solutions would solve anything. At...
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First, you must know that I subscribe to the property theory laid out in "The Ethics of Liberty" by Murray Rothbard. Once someone mixes their labor with material from nature, they own it, and may do what they want with it (provided it does not infringe on others' property rights). My question...