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Support C4SS and learn a little about how libertarians would protect the environment at the same time.

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Distro of the Libertarian Left

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James Tuttle | January 22nd, 2013

C4SS has teamed up with the Distro of the Libertarian Left. The Distro produces and distribute zines and booklets on anarchism, market anarchist theory, counter-economics, and other movements for liberation. For every copy of Kerry Thornley, Mary Ruwart, Karl Hess Jr.’s “Market Anarchy, Ecological Order: Three Libertarian Views on Environmental Protection“ that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage. Support C4SS with Kerry Thornley, Mary Ruwart, Karl Hess Jr.’s “Market Anarchy, Ecological Order: Three Libertarian Views on Environmental Protection“.

$1.00 for the first copy. $0.75 for every additional copy.

This booklet brings together three essays from the left-libertarian tradition on emerging ecological orders and environmental protection in a freed-market society. The first, “A Libertarian Technology of Ecology” was originally published in the Summer 1969 issue of The Innovator: Applications, Experiments, and Developments in Liberty, a radical libertarian newsletter that ran from 1964-1969. The article was signed by “Ho Chi Zen,” a pen name commonly used by Kerry Thornley (1938-1998), a market anarchist author, counterculture publisher, and Nonprophet of Discordianism. The second, “Environmental Destruction” is excerpted and abridged from “Destroying the Environment,” Chapter 8 of Mary Ruwart’s book, Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression (1993). The third, “Deeper Ecology and Deeper Markets” was originally published as “Closing the Green Gap of Market Liberalism,” in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty (December 1994), by Karl Hess, Jr. (Karl Hess IV), a left-market anarchist, a noted libertarian ecologist and champion of appropriate technology (and son of the ground-breaking left-libertarian radical and political theorist Karl Hess, Sr.).

“Conservation is often considered a statist bugaboo but, in fact, the problem of ecological upset is a real one — made all the more pressing by the fact that statist solutions of increased legal restriction do not work. Those who do the most polluting and destroying also have the most political influence in a society where government and business are interdependent partners. What is needed, instead of more laws cranked out by conditioned reflex, is the same kind of rational, scientific and cybernetic epistemology that is now used in DISCOVERING ecological problems, but not in solving them! Doubtlessly, such spiraling cycles of thought, experimentation, and data collection on the subject would transcend the legalistic, regulatory solutions in short order. . . .” —Kerry Thornley

“While the market of global process and exchange is essential to the well­being of society, it is not sufficient for most people’s happiness. The market that matters most to people lies closest to home, the marketplace where people gather to exchange in voluntary fashion everything from cash to good ideas to friendship to mutual aid and cooperation. It is the deep market of community, the cooperative flip side to the market of competition and impersonal economic forces. Therein lies the challenge to both greens and market liberals—how to save the marketplace from both the state and the impersonal market. Free marketeers must look beyond market gimmicks to solve festering environmental problems in a manner still con­sistent with liberty. The new environmental commons of ecolog­ical processes and unbounded communities of plants and ani­mals demand solutions that encompass and yet go beyond ord­inary markets and property rights. The environmental commons is a challenge to community—or, in the absence of community, a challenge that will be eagerly taken up by a centralized state in search of an equivalent to militarism. . . .” —Karl Hess, Jr.

Private Property Is a Key to Environmental Protection.

FYI - Some good food for thought from International Liberty/Dan Mitchell.

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Private Property Is a Key to Environmental Protection by Dan Mitchell A couple of weeks ago, before leaving for Europe, I stopped by the High Lonesome Ranch in De Beque, Colorado. City slicker in the CO mountains Controlling about 300 square miles, the High Lonesome is a remarkable spread. And if you like wildlife, you're in Heaven. It's sort of akin to a private national park. And it shows how free markets are an excellent steward of natural resources. The folks at the ranch brag about having the heaviest concentration of elk, deer, bear, and mountain lion in the country. That's probably not easy to verify, but deer and elk are ubiquitous and I saw two bear on the trip (I also saw a badger on a previous visit). The mountain lions are largely invisible, though the ranch has a project - as part of its education and conservation work - with some academics to monitor the range, feeding habits, and behavior of these impressive animals. Another noteworthy feature of the ranch is the way hydrologists are protecting and restoring streams and ponds. They have an incentive to do this because people from around the country come to the High Lonesome for fly fishing. Obviously not a very bright trout I very much doubt that all this valuable work would take place if a bunch of bureaucrats were in charge of the property. Or, if it did take place, it would take three times as long and cost five times as much thanks to the nightmarish incompetency and misaligned incentives of the government procurement process. Hunting is another source of revenue that enables the ranch to preserve natural resources. It goes without saying (but I'll say it anyhow in case some leftists read this) that this means the owners have a big incentive to protect wildlife and ensure a sustainable harvest. Heck, there are now so many bear that they are almost at the point of being a nuisance animal. I did a bit of fishing, as you can see from the photo with the remedial trout. Maybe I should try some hunting at some point. The 2nd Amendment in action But probably not bird hunting. The ranch is filled with pheasants, quail, chuckers, and other game birds, but I haven't been overly impressive when I've tried the sporting clays. The clay that shoots straight in the air was particularly vexing. Fortunately, I doubt burglars would have that ability, so I'll still be okay with home defense. The Chi-coms better avoid Fairfax While I wasn't overly proficient with the shotgun, I think I did okay with the rifle. I was a bit high and to the left on the target range, but one of the guides said anything within the bigger orange square is a kill shot. Then again, part of their job may be to stroke the egos of visitors from the cities and suburbs. In any event, a bear hunt might be a good idea. I have a fireplace at home, and it might look nice with a bearskin rug in front of it. All I'd be missing, then, is a lovely lass to pose on it. But I'm digressing. The point of this post is to simply note that this piece of property is something every environmentalist should applaud. And it's all made possible by the free market and private property rights.