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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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Date: 
Wed, 30 May 2001 03:09:21 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
overfishing is a worldwide problem, and a growing one. Whatever nation
builds the largest fleet of boats wins the race to catch the remaining few
free roaming large schools of species x, then there is a crash, and we move
on to the next species. Or so it seems.

so sad...

This is a classic tragedy of the commons problem. Whoever most insanely
exploits the commons "wins", but the commons (in this case, fish stocks) is
destroyed.

what does the Libertarian think of the tradegy of the commons?  Is it
addressed?

What exactly WOULD you do about overfishing? What is your concrete proposal
to address it? Owning the fish isn't practical, is it? What is?

Go Vegetarian!  Just kidding ;)  I'm pretty sure fishing regulations
don't extend into nternational waters.  There are some species that are
protected by a country but are overfished in deep water, which lowers
the numbers of adults that spawn in the shallow protected waters.  I
think a first step could be the extension of protected zones.  I'm not
sure if CITES covers fishing.

-chris



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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) Yes and no. The standard Libertarian answer applies well to the standard example... sheep overgrazing a commons can be remediated by having someone (or a group of someones) own the formerly common area and controlling how many sheep graze (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
There is some merit in the arguments your cite makes. I would ask this, however.... (and I snipped away the rest) (...) Overfishing is a worldwide problem, and a growing one. Whatever nation builds the largest fleet of boats wins the race to catch (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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