PM Series: Question 18

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http://mises.org/daily/5978/The-Libertarian-Manifesto-on-Pollution

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I don't want to sound harsh, but the "free market" solution for pollution seems to be one of the most blindly naive things I've ever read. And I'm a green, so I have experience with naivety. It's full of bizarre assumptions. That all pollution can be traced to one easily identifiable source, like a Captain Planet villain. That courts would treat the powerful and the powerless the same - that some obscure Bengal peasant farmer could sue Shell. That all pollution is local. That pollution can only be dealt with retrospectively. It just all seems so silly and illogical.