Species extinctions are declining and we haven't lost any really cute animals in a very long time. There are more trees in the US than there were in the 1920s. Vital resources are all getting cheaper. Capitalism is the fastest route to a clean environment. It is a fact that a person faced with the choice of not killing a rhino versus feeding his family will almost always choose feeding his family.
Liberals believe that laws can trump necessity.
This is very rarely the case. That's why America passed anti-child labor laws only after we got prosperous enough to be able to afford to send our kids to school rather than work. But look, I really don't want to write this column again, especially today. Ronald Bailey knows more about environmental issues than Hillary Clinton knows about commodity futures. You have no cause to fear that cold steel laboratory of libertarian hyper-rationalism.