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Re: Hermann Goering on Anthropogenic Global Warming

hjmaiere: People are interested in anthropogenic global warming because they subconsciously want it to be true . So they tell each other scary campfire stories, skillfully embellishing them with scientific jargon, nodding their heads in reassuring tribal consensus that something can and must be done...

Posted to Political Theory by TokyoTom on Wed, Apr 23 2008

Whales and fisheries - "standing up to Japan", or enclosing the commons?

Dave Neiwert, a thoughtful voice on the left and with an experienced, informed view on America's right-wing racist fringe, has a rather confused post up on whaling on his blog, Orcinus. http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/02/standing-up-to-japan.html . Neiwert sends a mixed message by saying we need...

Posted to TT`s Lost in Tokyo by TokyoTom on Fri, Feb 15 2008
Filed under: commons, property rights, whales, Dave Neiwert, fisheries

Property rights and fishing

Over at Cafe Hayek , Don Boudreaux blogs about fishing and property rights. This got me thinking: What is necessary for rational allocation of fishing rights? Clearly, treating the ocean's fish as totally unownable is problematic, as that sort of thing would naturally lead to overfishing. At first...

Posted to Natural Order by Grant on Tue, Oct 2 2007
Filed under: Environment, Property Rights, Hayek, Commons