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Book SynopsisFree Enterprise Environmentalism argues that laissez capitalism can address climate change more effectively than socialism and government regulation. The contributors support the role of markets, free enterprise, limited government, and private property rights in service of environmental protections. Covering topics such as extinction, overpopulation, pollution, and resources exhaustion, the contributors offer alternate solutions to environmental degradation than have been proposed by the political left.
Trade ReviewBlock demonstrates how the basic institutions of a free society -- property rights, markets, and prices -- provide the necessary and sufficient building blocks for successful environmental preservation. And shows that the repeated abject failures of both socialist commons and governmental scientific bureaucratic management are inherently doomed to failure. This is an especially welcome and timely volume given the new Biden administration's plans for a vast expansion of the traditional command-and-control approach to all environmental problems as well as a massive acquisition of well-managed private forestlands, ranchlands, and farmlands.
-- Robert J. Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Table of ContentsSection I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Private Property Rights and Environmentalism
Section II. Water
Chapter 2. Ocean Real Estate
Section III. Energy
Chapter 3. Nuclear Power
Chapter 4. Energy Petition
Chapter 5. Oil and Gas Stations
Section IV. Property Rights
Chapter 6. Homesteading
Chapter 7. Property in Space
Chapter 8. Land for Parks
Section V. Environmental Economics
Chapter 9. ANWR
Chapter 10. Food
Chapter 11. Economics of the Environment
Chapter 12. Pollution
Section VI. Climate; Natural Disasters
Chapter 13. New Orleans’ Future
Chapter 14. Weather Socialism
Chapter 15. Katrina
Chapter 16. Price Gouging
Section VII. Population
Chapter 17. Armageddon?
Chapter 18. Cause of Poverty?
Chapter 19. Problem?
