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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jun 21

    http://HumanProgress.org : Technology and markets are the best way to address environmental challenges (I would add judicious regulation, including pollution pricing). https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1337 … #HumanProgressData

    8:16 AM - 21 Jun 2018
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      1. SchizoPete‏ @PeterJohnKattz Jun 30
        Replying to @sapinker

        This opinion is brought to you by the Koch Brothers. Proud members of the genetically superior master race. Please enjoy your life as production equipment and the cancer you'll get from it.

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      1. Climate Doom‏ @Tav_assoli Jun 21
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        Problem is when people use this kind of argument to justify runaway capitalism and unrestrained raping of the environment.

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      1. Maria Petrova  ✏️‏ @_MariaPetrova Jun 21
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        bless you

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      1. Mike King‏ @VoidMfg Jun 21
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        Markets, tech, and abstinence only education have worked great so far

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      1. Rai Nazar Hayat‏ @rainazar Jun 21
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        A beautiful and timely sharing... Thanks...!

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      2. Trevor Smith‏ @TrevorJSmith_ Jun 21
        Replying to @sapinker

        Apart from the challenge of air pollution, in what way do robust property rights fall short and necessitate regulation of pollution?

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      3. i’ll use it only for boos‏ @rfhirschfeld Jun 21
        Replying to @TrevorJSmith_ @sapinker

        Regulation of pollution IS a way to enforce robust property rights, be they the rights of and in the commons, or private property. Markets are powerful forces, but they have been terrible at pricing in pollution. Externalities are a great boon to the powerful and thus encouraged.

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      4. Trevor Smith‏ @TrevorJSmith_ Jun 21
        Replying to @rfhirschfeld @sapinker

        Setting aside the commons (which apart from air shouldn't really exist in a free society) pollution regulation would be redundant at best on top of property rights imo. With basic prop rights negative externalities would be grounds for the aggrieved party to seek recompense, no?

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      5. i’ll use it only for boos‏ @rfhirschfeld Jun 21
        Replying to @TrevorJSmith_ @sapinker

        You'd have private ownership of rivers that flow through multiple countries, states, & cities, including the water and all it carries? You'd privatize the oceans? You'd privatize all species other than humans?

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      6. i’ll use it only for boos‏ @rfhirschfeld Jun 21
        Replying to @rfhirschfeld @TrevorJSmith_ @sapinker

        That commons shouldn't exist in a free society presumes a first principle. Can't free people freely decide to collectively coordinate in the management of a broadly distributed, boundary-less resource?

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      7. i’ll use it only for boos‏ @rfhirschfeld Jun 21
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        Seeking legal recompense after-the-fact is absurdly expensive and time-consuming, and puts a huge burden on an individual aggrieved party. Also, it's after-the-fact, so there may be no "real" recompense.

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      8. Trevor Smith‏ @TrevorJSmith_ Jun 21
        Replying to @rfhirschfeld @sapinker

        Any law is only broken after the fact. Violating property rights is still illegal before the fact

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      9. i’ll use it only for boos‏ @rfhirschfeld Jun 21
        Replying to @TrevorJSmith_ @sapinker

        Lol, of course, so it's a matter of enforcement, and if you put the burden on an individual, it won't happen. Peter Thiel sued Gawker on behalf of Hulk Hogan because Hogan was "only a millionaire" and thus didn't truly have access to the justice system to seek redress.

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