The Environment

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.

We are going to have world central planning in order to control the climate and protect the holy earth from the effects of industrialization. Oh, and tax us good and hard in the process.

Ah, the greens. They’re not just treehuggers anymore.

"A lesson in basic economics should suffice to defend against the sustainists' attack."

"Mandated recycling exists mainly because there is plenty of money to be made by labeling products as "green" or "recycled" to get municipal and federal grants."

"The computer models that incorporate the greenhouse-gas theory are being massively contradicted by current readings."

Social institutions matter most, and they are very wrong now: a huge improvement is possible, and freedom is the answer.