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I don't think 'the right' (whatever that means) has abandoned the environment. At least libertarians have not. Check out www.perc.org, these are free market p
by nickik 9y ago
I don't think 'the right' (whatever that means) has abandoned the environment.
At least libertarians have not.
Check out www.perc.org, these are free market people who are extremely passionate about the environment and they are quite popular and have made great inroads to provide an alternative way of thinking about the environment compared to the leftist big government bureaucracy style of protecting it.
They support great projects like Oregon Water Trust, The Nature Conservancy and do research on how to think in an economically sensible way about these questions.
Here some cool videos, Terry Anderson about Wildlife in Yellow-Stone and about the history of property rights in Montana.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcpal2le2Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcpal2le2Y
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPrzUwl0suM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPrzUwl0suM
- barsonme 9y agoWe at ACC like PERC :-) And we do partner with other eco-right groups: https://www.acc.eco/founding-coalition/ https://www.acc.eco/founding-coalition/ Obviously I'm generalizing a bit, but I don't think it's unfair to say the right has lagged far behind on environmental issues since at least the '80s.
- jdhn 9y agoI'm kind of late to the game, but what do you think about RepublicEn[0]? [0] www.republicen.org
- barsonme 9y agoThey're great! And Bob was one of our first supporters. [0] https://twitter.com/republicEn/status/918153164146266112 https://twitter.com/republicEn/status/918153164146266112 [1] https://www.acc.eco/endorsements/ https://www.acc.eco/endorsements/
- wandernotlost 9y agoPERC is partly the subject of the article: PERC’s affiliation with politically connected outfitters that stand to profit if trails are closed bolsters the sense, to Wilson and others confronting locked gates, that a void in coherent policy about public land management is being filled by cronyism that rewards wealth and connections above all else. Another co-owner of the Wonder Ranch, Frank-Paul King, a friend and former student of Anderson’s, served on PERC’s board. Hudson, the man who got Representative Sessions involved, is King’s brother-in-law, and he’s also a board member and the former president of the Dallas Safari Club, a group that made national headlines in 2014 when it auctioned off a trip to Africa to hunt an endangered rhinoceros.
- nickik 9y agoI read the article. I just wanted to show that they do more then just what is in the article, because the article points them in a pretty particular way, whatever your opinion of the article is.