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

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.

Comments

[Irresponsible Hater]

Q: Harder, better, faster, or stronger?

Q: Deep dish, or slit wrists?

Q: Put shoe on head!

[Grandpa Whithers]

A: Slit wrists. Deep dish isn't even pizza.

[Ask a Libertarian...]

How come you put all of this Ask a Libertarian stuff on H&R instead of a separate link?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Belief in AGW, eh? So Gillespie isn't an atheist.

[CE]

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]

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?