The Environment

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.

The garbage situation in Cairo is a classic example of government imposing a supposedly rational and modern solution that fits the needs of the people in charge but doesn't fit the needs of people. The end result is a spectacular failure.

There is no greater immorality than deep opposition to mankind per se, and environmentalism must be exposed as that kind of immoral and destructive creed. Only then will the party of mankind be able to take back our culture.

Zoning laws are a violation of property rights.

In the Free Market Environmentalism (FME) this can be justified on homesteading grounds: our ancestors exhaled, and left those rights to us.

Property is that beautiful foundation from which libertarians approach conflicts.

There is no secure foundation in climate science for the current policy rhetoric; governments simply lack the knowledge to operate climate-change policy effectively. Moreover, policy is based on the neoclassical economics assumption that climate change is a case of market failure. However, it is not markets that have failed but governments in failing to protect property rights.