There is a new climate change lawsuit in US courts, this time by the Inuit inhabitants of an Alaskan village that will soon be rendered uninhabitable by the rapid erosion resulting from the year-round pounding of seas that were once frozen; the villagers are blaming man-made climate change and suing...
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TokyoTom
on Tue, Apr 8 2008
Filed under: climate, mises, AGW, Dolan, Richman, Callahan, litgation, Pawa
In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters, on a host of "environmental" issues...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Feb 23 2008
Filed under: climate, Reisman, mises, enviros, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome
In their more considerate writings, Austrians have counseled a cool, rational approach to environmental issues. But recent posts lead me to wonder whether a number of LvMI blog authors and commenters prefer hot-headed emotional outbursts and partisan, ad hominem attacks over Austrian principles, rational...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Feb 18 2008
Filed under: climate, Reisman, mises, commons, Greenwald, Corrigan, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, Dolan, Austrian, Hayek
"Not all externalities are crimes, and as long as CO2 does not make clear victims, it should be left as an externality for people to adapt to ...." In response to this statement on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments ), I observed, in the context of the impact...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Oct 11 2007
Filed under: climate, tragedy of commons, environment, mises, transition