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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month agoEconomics of scale already proves that to be a fantasy.
Also, private charities and local governments can’t do anything about multi national corporations creating pollution or price fixing.
C126@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Pollution is a property rights issue, don’t need anything beyond private property rights and a court system to cover that. Price fixing is caused by government created barriers to entry, artificially restricting competition. In other words, price fixing is a problem caused by government overreach, so obviously government isn’t the solution.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who owns the air?
C126@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Air pollution is about protecting an individuals property, not the air itself: lungs, orchards, fields, etc. Air is simply how the property damage was delivered. So, no one owns the air, but property damage dealt through the air should be pursued in court, like any other property damage.
And let’s not kid ourselves that the government has real incentive to reduce pollution. Overnight, someone like Trump gets put in charge and happily encourages the poisoning of the environment and individuals can’t sue in court, because the government said it was ok to pollute.