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China had few restrictions on pollution. As a result, their air is toxic and most of their rivers are unsafe to even swim in. Free market at work. They have since been trying to tighten them. The free market fails because polluters do not have to pay the full costs of dealing with their wastes so they produce excess amounts of them. If the pay the full, real costs they will make efforts to reduce those costs. When the cost is zero, they have no incentive.
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See, this is why nobody here actually thinks you are actually a Ron Paul supporter.
Ron Paul explained free market environmentalism during the Ronald Reagan debate in 2008. If you still don't understand it after all these years, after the dozen or so times I have personally explained it to you, then you are either a posting bot or you don't care about liberty.
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"dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
"You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
"When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q
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"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
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In terms of environment, they have been free market- not restricting output of pollution in exchange for trying to achieve government goals of output. Now they are trying to deal with the consequences of their free market environmental policies. We had similar problems during our own industrial revolution.
And don't forget about Chernobyl and Fukushima or Three Mile Island. How bad could they have been in the absence of any regulation?
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"Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
"War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.
"He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
"dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
"You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
"When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q
"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent trying to clean it all up. Nuclear waste lasts for thousands of years. It doesn't go away over time like other pollutants can.
http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issu...in-arctic-seas
Russia announces enormous finds of radioactive waste and nuclear reactors in Arctic seas
Bellona had received in 2011 a draft of a similar report prepared for Russia’s Gossoviet, the State Council, for presentation at a meeting presided over by then-president Dmitry Medvedev on Russian environmental security.
The Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom confirmed the figures in February of this year during a seminar it jointly held with Bellona in Moscow.
Bellona is alarmed by the extent of the dumped Soviet waste, which is far greater than was previously known – not only to Bellona, but also to the Russian authorities themselves.
The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, according to documents seen by Bellona, and which were today released by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radiactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.Kudrik said that one of the most critical pieces of information missing from the report released to the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority was the presence of the K-27 nuclear submarine, which was scuttled in 50 meters of water with its two reactors filled with spent nuclear fuel in in Stepovogo Bay in the Kara Sea in 1981.
Information that the reactors about the K-27 could reachieve criticality and explode was released at the Bellona-Rosatom seminar in February.
“This danger had previously been unknown, and is very important information. When they search and map these reactors, they must be the first priority,” said Kudrik.
Researchers will now evaluate whether it is possible to raise the submarine, and attempt to determine if it is leaking radioactivity into the sea.
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So Zip picks an example of government pollution. All this created by big government, in fact perhaps the largest government ever, filled with massive departments with massive levels of regulations of all aspects of human life.
So Zips point is government causes pollution. Shrink it now.
"But, but, but without the Department of Energy, where would our energy come from?"
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That isn't a sufficient explanation. By his definition, every industrial business, if not every person, is violating property rights. Every time a power plant or factory spews pollution into the air, do they need to write a check to every person in the world?
Ron Paul has strongly advocated for local and state policies to curb pollution...even though that often leads to localities shifting the pollution elsewhere rather than cleaning it up.
I like you Zippy but you're wrong here.
There's no free market when the government ALLOWS the biggest polluter to pollute as much as they want.
You have a free market when there is recourse in case someone pollutes your property.
Property rights... You can do whatever the $#@! you want so long as you do not pollute other peoples property.
"I am a bird"
Well, if you can prove that a power-plant is polluting your soil, air or water... Then you should be able to sue, definitely. Whether or not CO2 counts as a pollutant, that's debatable of course.
Nobody said a free market would be the most fun situation for everyone, especially large corporations, but at least it's fair.
"I am a bird"
A true free market means no government interference. That means you can pollute as much as you like.
But it is simple. Just sue them under property rights.
The difficulty with property is who owns the air? Who owns the seas and the rivers? Water and air move. You cannot restrict where it goes to. You cannot define who owns a particular piece of it. It is common property. Property rights are fine if I say smash your car. It is obvious who owns it and what the costs of the damages were (the costs of the repair). That is harder with air and water.
Then you have to prove direct cause and effect and costs. If you get sick it is difficult to say what caused it. Was it pollution or exposure to a germ? Was it one particular polluter or is it possibly many sources? What percent of damages should go to each assuming you can prove direct cause of injury and its costs? Is it the sole responsibility of the polluter to control their output or do you have some responsibility to try to prevent it from coming onto your property? If I like to smoke and you don't like to, is it my responsibility to not smoke or it is your fault it got into your place because you left your window open- didn't secure your own property rights- like putting up a fence around it to keep out unwanted people or animals or whatever. It is extremely difficult and expensive to bring a lawsuit. And companies have deeper pockets to fight it.
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You still can sue. The "property rights" argument has not been removed. Government rules against polluting and causing damages makes it easier to do so though it still can be a challenge.
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Quite the other way around. China has a government that claims absolute control over the issue and will not allow private property owners to seek justice for abuses done to them or their property. Therefore corporations can get away with anything, because the government protects them from justice and backs up their violation of property rights with the protection of the state's overwhelming violence.
Indeed, the idea that paying a fine will limit pollution is fallacious. All that does is establish a minimum/maximum that the corporations have to worry about and allows them to get away with whatever they want. Pay the fine, get away with poisoning a town's water supply. It isn't punishment, it is the illusion of such to provide a cloak of protection for their actions.
Last edited by PierzStyx; 12-14-2016 at 05:56 PM.
Mises has a good write-up on how a free market would help protect against and even motivate the innovation to eliminate air pollution whereas the government protects it.
https://mises.org/library/libertaria...esto-pollution
That's a good piece. Certainly some good ideas, and frankly, that is how I imagine a free market would do it. However, such models still include a court system. Isn't that government regulation? The vast majority of government regulations find their origins in court cases. You are still counting on your court system not being captured by special interests; ruling "properly", etc.
And of course, you will end up in a situation where companies will go to the states were the legal system has defined property rights very loosely.
There, I think, the is the rub. Mises even mentions in the article that there is disagreement within the community as to what constitutes "property rights". Individual conservatives/libertarians have a view of property rights that they think everyone should adhere to. But how do you get people to adhere to that? Even in the US, we never have had that strict definition of property rights...the constitution even allows the seizing of private property for the common good.
Finally a reason to post this video once again. Thanks Trump.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U6bbBz1Au9Q
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