“Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.”
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.