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I really appreciate that you’re open to a conversation, it made for an interesting thread. I can offer an alternate solution to accumulating toxins, which may
by EarthLaunch 6y ago
I really appreciate that you’re open to a conversation, it made for an interesting thread.
I can offer an alternate solution to accumulating toxins, which may or may not be comprehensive: Property rights.
Pollution is a tragedy of the commons situation. If people owned, not just land, but whatever encompasses the pollution, there would be incentive not to pollute their own property.
So my proposed solution would require defining property in a way that includes ownership of the pollution.
Government enforces property rights, so this does rely partly on government.
- Joeri 6y agoAlright, let’s say it was possible to track all pollution to its polluter, and you could assign ownership. Then what? Tax or fine the polluters? Isn’t that basically the same as regulating the polluting industries in the first place?