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This is a great comment, and really a key here. If you have a nail (environmental problem) hit it with a hammer (environmental regulation or tort liability der
by pkilgore 8y ago
This is a great comment, and really a key here.
If you have a nail (environmental problem) hit it with a hammer (environmental regulation or tort liability deregulation).
You can hit it with back end of a plastic screwdriver (regulate supply and demand), but you'll never do as good of a job (flush nail with no external damage) as you will using the right tools.
And, to stretch the metaphor, the handle of the screwdriver might shatter and and cause a bunch of new problems without ever hammering the nail.
- firethief 8y agoWhat if you have assorted fastening implements that require different affixing tools, but they're all necessary because businesses seeking short-term profit have supplanted families who want the land to be healthy for their children?
- ucaetano 8y ago> supplanted families who want the land to be healthy for their children? That's a fairy-tale story that the farming industry has been pushing around for decades to portray the image of the old-school farmer working dawn to dusk to support the family. Agriculture hasn't been like that since the dust bowl. And even then, they didn't really care about the "healthy for their children", the dust bowl happened largely due to farmers (mostly small and mid-size by then) overfarming their lands and using deep plowing to overcome top-soil degradation. Agriculture is a high-risk, capital-intensive industry that benefits dramatically from economies of scale. Drop the romantic, nostalgic fantasia that so many still carry around farming.
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