Day: February 23, 2018๐Ÿ’พ

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Sensibile Regulation and Capitalism

Sensible regulation, combined with the innovations brought on by capitalism, helps to make better products for the American families.๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก Are there better ways to make products safer and less polluting, while preserving the quality and affordabilty of services they provide? ๐ŸญI believe there often are — sometimes it poses technological challenges — but we have scientists and engineers that can find good solutions to tough problems.๐Ÿ”ฌ

Many times businesses are risk-adverse, unwilling to change unless the government pushes them. Why take a risk or invest in expensive new engineering if consumers are not demanding it, despite an obvious social good.๐Ÿ˜ฃ People want a product that does what they need, they aren’t concerned that much about the externalities. ๐Ÿš— Granted, not all new technologies are perfect when they are first adopted, but the markets will help make the technologies better for the consumer.๐Ÿ‘ฌ

Who Is Garrett Hardin? The Master Ecologist Who Warned Us About Population Growth

Who Is Garrett Hardin? The Master Ecologist Who Warned Us About Population Growth

"Garrett James Hardin was one of the first thinkers we would call an โ€œecologistโ€ โ€“ arguably, he helped created the movement. His 1968 paper on The Tragedy of the Commons explained that if a shared resource โ€” for example, a forest or a lake โ€” was not centrally managed, its users would tend to destroy it over time as they acted rationally in their own interests. That idea led Hardin to his lifelong unpopular argument against continued human population growth. And as a result, Hardin was a supporter not only of all birth control methods, but also of sterilization. He also stood firmly against most forms of immigration, comparing immigration into a society with limited resources to an overcrowded lifeboat taking on new members. His position caused him to be ostracized by many mainstream political and academic thinkers."