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Nature’s way
Today the Financial Times reports on an interview with Alistair Phillips-Davies, the head of SSE, an energy company. Mr Phillips-Davies called for a review of government policies on funding renewable energy. [1] His comments are eerily similar to some made … Continue reading
Property rights and loving nature
It is often said that property rights play a vital role in protecting the environment. The classic case is when you get a piece of land that no-one owns, then everyone plunders it. This is the tragedy of the commons. … Continue reading
Who and what is bigger than how.
Sometimes you see an argument that communist or socialist approaches to environmental protection are doomed to fail. They say: “Just look at what happened in the Soviet Union.” Then a communist might say: “Well, they did it wrong in that … Continue reading
Belief economics in short
Someone wrote to me: “If you can persuade people that cutting off their kids’ foreskins, putting plates through their lips, blowing themselves up with gelignite or celibacy is a grand idea, it shouldn’t be so hard to persuade them to … Continue reading