Copyright 1996 by Peter Huber. Electronic copies of this document may be distributed freely, provided that this notice accompanies all copies. Free markets are the enemy of the environment. Capitalists are environmental vandals.
Government is the environment's friend.
Framing the debate as lumberjacks versus owls won't do. The public wants both jobs and forests. The Left cheerfully promises both. Nor can the debate be reduced to property-rights rhetoric about a sugarcane farmer's freedom to use his private land as he pleases. The Right has no trouble grasping society's collective concerns about cocaine in private veins, abortion in private wombs and the river of filth that flows out of Hollywood into our private televisions.