Ask a Libertarian: What's the libertarian approach to global warming & other environmental issues?

Reason Staff | 6.15.2011 6:55 PM

Welcome to Ask a Libertarian with Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. They are the authors of the new book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America.

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On June 15, 2011 Gillespie and Welch used short, rapid-fire videos to answer dozens of reader questions submitted via email, Twitter, Facebook, and Reason.com. In this episode, they answer the question:

"What are libertarian solutions to environmental problems? Global warming, pollution, ect?"

For the complete series, go to http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/10/ask-a-libertarian and Reason.tv's YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/reasontv

Produced by Meredith Bragg, Jim Epstein, Josh Swain, with help from Katie Hooks, Kyle Blaine and Jack Gillespie.

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Irresponsible Hater 14 years ago

Q: Harder, better, faster, or stronger?

Q: Deep dish, or slit wrists?

Q: Put shoe on head!
1. Grandpa Whithers 14 years ago
  
  A: Slit wrists. Deep dish isn't even pizza.
Ask a Libertarian... 14 years ago

How come you put all of this Ask a Libertarian stuff on H&R instead of a separate link?
Fist of Etiquette 14 years ago

Belief in AGW, eh? So Gillespie isn't an atheist.
CE 14 years ago

A libertarian approach to global warming:

1. Wait until the temperature actually, you know, changes.

2. Try to persuade people to do things that might have an impact, if doing so is economically advantageous.
Zuo 14 years ago

I WISH global warming was real. Cold winters suck the knob. And now I hear the sun is going to fuck around for the indeterminate future, and deny us the warmth we had assumed it would generously provide?

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