Reason.tv Replay: Governments vs. Markets: Julian Morris on Environmental Protection

Which does a better job of protecting the environment: governments or markets?

Reason Foundation's Vice President of Research Julian Morris spoke at Reason Foundation's annual Reason Weekend and challenged the idea that regulations and energy subsidies will save us from environmental disasters. In fact, they help cause them.

When people are driven by profits and protected by property rights, Morris argues, environmentally friendly products will develop naturally.

Morris is the author of dozens of scholarly articles on issues ranging from the morality of free trade to the relationship between institutions, economic development and environmental protection.

Approximately 28 minutes.

Filmed by Alex Manning and Paul Detrick; Editded by Joshua Swain

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[John]

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[Doc S.]

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Filmed by Alex Manning and Paul Detrick; Editded by Joshua Swain

[American Delight]

Exactly, if you care about the environment, the last thing you want to do is to put the government in charge of protecting it. For example, Barnum & Bailey do more to breed elephants than the Endangered Species Act ever did.

[Neu Mejican]

Barnum & Bailey do more to breed elephants than the Endangered Species Act ever did

Because elephants aren't native to the U.S. perhaps?

[Dallas Beaufort]

Spot on, governments have never delivered housing and protected the environment successfully only the private sector have the scope to create what people want, sustainability seems to deliver political power with no real added value.

[chaussures converse]

Which does a better job of protecting the environment: governments or markets