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Free Enterprise Environmentalism

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Free 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.
Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans.
Section 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?
Block 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
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