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African nature preserves and the tragedy of the commons

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

In the July 4, 2008 issue of Science, there was a news & views article about over-hunting and poaching of animals on nature preserves in Africa, due to the large increase in human populations surrounding the preserves. It seems the establishment of nature preserves attracts people to settle around them, ...

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What if climate-change alarmists are right?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Max Borders presents a pretty good case as to why State solutions to those problems are worse than the problems themselves.

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Coercion, not persuasion or enterprise, is the answer

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

for environmentalists, claims Ann Pettifor on the BBC website. Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, writes that "there are over one - maybe even two - million organisations (worldwide) working toward ecological sustainability and social justice". And yet... and yet... there ...

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