12-01-2009, 07:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2009, 07:19 AM by Occhidiangela.)
Quote:Yes, that's quite right. If people have the freedom to generate negative externalities without cost, then they will generate too many of them. That's just basic economics. The only way to reduce those externalities is to somehow redirect their activities. You either curtail their freedom directly, or indirectly.
Or, you they fight you. War is a human response to people attempting to control externalities. Please don't make the error of wishing it away. You are a good enough student of economics and history to know that resource battles/struggles/disputes inform the motives for war as often as anything else does.
War may be a tonic to the climate problem, for all the wrong reasons. Kill off enough people, and the climate change engine may be curtailed, or reduced. That will show the microbes who's in charge!:P
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete