The Environment

The Deepwater Horizon crisis has sparked the next battle in the never-ending war of ideas between the proponents of government intervention and the defenders of laissez-faire.

Covers the problems of government intervention into pollution and natural resource use issues, emphasizing importance of private property and indiv

Interviewed by special guest host, Zoe Russell, on the “Free Markets” internet radio program; 17 July 2010.

A society that values individual rights should not give liable parties a free pass. But a hostile federal takeover of BP would send a message to every other firm in the oil industry that their assets aren't safe from plunder.

"Congress and big oil companies colluded to reward risky behavior and lost their bet."

A system of private-property rights over all else would be a better solution.

Bob DelGiorno of the “First News” radio program on WWL, New Orleans, interviews Professor Walter Block, 7 June 2010.

Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Professor Walter Block on free-market environmentalism, 27 May 2010.

As interviewed by Dan Cofall on the Wall Street Shuffle radio program; CNN Radio; Dallas, Texas, 10 May 2010.

The abstraction called the "ecosystem" — which never seems to include mankind or civilization — has done far less for us than the oil industry, and the factories, planes, trains, and automobiles it fuels.