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Re: Protecting the Environment
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:13:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
> > As of posting the link refers to the June 17th 2003 (released after 18th)
> > article.
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> > http://www.Creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?next=2&ColumnsName=wwi
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> > -Mike Petrucelli
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> I like the bit where gov't agencies change their mind when it's them that's
> losing the money.
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> As per usual, money talks.
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> I'm all for capitalistic endeavours, but there has to be a line, and who's going
> to decide where that line is?
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> THe line between not impacting at all on the environment (and how would htat
> ever happen) to rapeing the enviornment for money today at the cost of
> health/life tomorrow--there's a line there somewhere--who decides where it is?
The market should decide.
And the market can and *will* reach the right decision. Just make sure that ALL
costs are visible and are charged to the parties that should be incurring the
costs. Which is the point of the article and of the book.
In today's mixed system we have the spectacle of welfarequeen conglomerates like
ADM actually causing pollution and waste in the name of clean air with things
like ethanol production (heavily subsidised despite it having no economic
benefit and a negative energy balance by some calculations, and no ecological
benefit either by some analysis)...
THAT's what needs to change. We need less regulation but with that (and before
it) less subsidy and preferential law that distorts the market and hides true
costs.
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| (...) I like the bit where gov't agencies change their mind when it's them that's losing the money. As per usual, money talks. I'm all for capitalistic endeavours, but there has to be a line, and who's going to decide where that line is? THe line (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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