... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate an “adaptation fund” that would help...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Jan 21 2008
Filed under: climate, development, state, ostrom, lockitch, lomborg, goklany, adler, Enviro Derangement Syndrome
"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. Then there is the small matter of cleaning up our...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 12 2007
Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, development, boycott
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 ) regarding my suggestion that better definition...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 12 2007
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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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on Fri, Oct 12 2007
Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, development, Malthus