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 impose. While our demands on the natural environment...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 12 2007
Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, development, Malthus
Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/story/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to Dan. I take the liberty of posting that response here, revised slightly and with a few further comments. Too many...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Sep 27 2007
Filed under: tragedy of commons, environment, Malthus, mises, property, markets, ostrom, yandle