When it comes to preserving nature's fuzzy denizens from human depredations, TI is very critical of existing regulatory efforts. That raises a smaller version of the same problem that troubled the environment in the old Soviet bloc, where nobody owned anything, so it all got gobbled up by government shoe factories. The folks at PERC favor a more individualistic approach that hearkens back to common law solutions. PERC suggests that the law changed with the advent of the industrial age to discourage such suits, but that a return to older forms might well be in order. This property rights approach to controlling pollution was not perfect, but it focused on actual harm rather than emissions, which may not in themselves be a problem.
Litigation is a blood sport.
Crisis, real or not, is a commodity. And slogans and sound bites masquerade as scientific fact. That's an awful lot of dollar-grubbing to expend on promoting socialist schemes that won't help the environment anyway. With no defined property rights, but plenty of commissars rushing around looking for resources to turn into lousy shoes, the great outdoors in the various workers' paradises rapidly degenerated into open cesspools. Command and control sputtered, broke down, and left a behind a bad smell in the old communist states that market-oriented perestroika could only slowly clear from the room.