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You really think that fifty people could keep tabs on the waste disposal processes of all american corporations?The dumping problem is supposed to be monitored by the EPA, but the EPA is not doing their job. It is just a billion dollar industry that does more for the Democratic Party than for the environment.
It is a bloated bureaucracy that needs to be deflated, and brought back to what it was set up for in the first place, monitoring dumping, which it does little of now.
Fifty employees could do that easily.
Everything businesses do costs money. That’s why they have a CDB line in the budget.To make money.
Going green costs money. Recycling can be expensive; dumping is cheap.
Pfft, they'd just donate 1 million to the ruling party and get away scot free.If there are no regulations to prevent BP oil spills in the Gulf, for example, the penalties they pay when it happens MUST equal the real cost. Cleaning up your messes is free market, too.
Milton Friedman would agree with you on that. The penalties would come from having to pay the ones damaged by environmental degradation. There are courts that are there to ensure that. Bureaucracy is redundant in that regard. Moreover, bureaucracy serves bureaucracy as its first and primary concern.If there are no regulations to prevent BP oil spills in the Gulf, for example, the penalties they pay when it happens MUST equal the real cost. Cleaning up your messes is free market, too.
We have been ...what... for some time now?
LOL. "Humans Make Hurricanes Worse"
Good lord.
It wasn't obvious to me what you were trying to say.In a position to control climate....obviously.
Which party runs EPA?
Which party runs EPA?
It wasn't obvious to me what you were trying to say.
Certainly the last 150 years have influenced climate, according to most scientists at any rate. That is different than saying that 150 years have been about controlling climate. Climate, and specific climatic events, in particular, are very much outside of our control.
And it is not obvious that anything that we can do right now is going to have much effect on reversing the trend of climate change. Models set up inputting huge changes in behavior on our behalf on a global scale, predict miniscule changes to the reduction of mean temperatures. Popular scientist commentators and global warming activists like David Suzuki acknowledge this, whilst hoping that some future discovery may be the ticket.
Which is fair enough, but there is a vast difference between hoping that at some future date we may control climate, and stating that we are in a position to control climate now.
Second it is not obvious that "we" can control climate, because there is no "we" in the first place. Individual nations and individual people act according to their own priorities, and those priorities severely contradict with one another. There is no such thing as a global community working together as one. There is no "we".
The EPA is one of the most bloated and unnecessary entities in all of government. The faster it's dismantled, the better.
Indeed! I’ve heard mercury and lead in drinking water does wonders for digestion!Right! Who needs clean air and water? What's good for private industry has to be good for all of us!
Ringo
'We' implies that there is a 'we' who can control things. There isn't.There is a “we” most definitely in the sense that we all share in the planet and it’s resources and we have all played a part in the overall effect of raising global temperatures.
That is a control. I said control, not absolute control. You run your car with the choke out and you are controlling how poorly your engine will run, even though you have no influence on say the suspension...
'We' implies that there is a 'we' who can control things. There isn't.
I think now that the sarcasm is coming out, this will be my last post to you.Which is why we have these things called 'governments'. And its why those governments come together to form agreements. You need this explained to you...?
We have governments acting in their own self-interests, and bureaucracies putting on lavish meetings to discuss how best to reduce.
But this is not going to bring down the temperature over the next two hundred years to any appreciable degree. We, as individuals, do not exercise that kind of control.
So what you're saying is that libertarianism needs to get beyond thunderdome?
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