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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Subject: Re: Libertarians & the environment
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.181419.6129@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <TSF.92Jul20135713@U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU> <19106@ector.cs.purdue.edu> <4563@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:14:19 GMT
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- In article <4563@balrog.ctron.com> smith@ctron.com writes:
- >If we had a Liberatarian system in place today, the entertainment business
- >would buy up huge tracts of such land and charge tree-huggers for camping and
- >admiring raw nature. Or organizations funded by hunters would buy them for
- >hunting preserves, or organizations funded by universities and schools would
- >buy them for forestry research or nature study, or organizations of tree-
- >huggers could STOP giving money to lobbyists trying to get the gov't to steal
- >land and instead give it to an organization that would just BUY the damn land
- >and let the treehuggers sit and contemplate it in rapture.
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- Do you have any evidence or data to support these remarkable claims ?
-
- -- paul
- --
- Paul's housebuilding credo:
- Measure it with a micrometer, cut it with a chainsaw, fit it
- with a sledgehammer
-
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