With water so uncertain, many farmers simply gave up growing crops. Property Rights in the First World Canada is not that much different from Thailand. My colleagues in Probe have often argued to Canada's logging industry, mining industry, nuclear industry, and oil and the gas industry that better property rights would protect the citizens' land, air, water, and forests. Like Chicken Little. When we want to lay a pipeline through native lands we have to operate on their schedule, and they have their own concept of time.
People complain about everything.
Chicken Little said the sky would fall. Those executives say we will all have to go back to the cave. If the rights of the losers and the responsibilities of the winners are enforced, I have confidence that the ingenuity of engineers and the drive of entrepreneurs will serve to meet the needs and desires of society's members without doing so at the expense of each other and each other's environment. Whether you are a farmer from India or Elmira, from a river community in northern Thailand or northern Ontario, a resident of Toronto or Shanghai, or a member of the Cree or Pehuenche First Nation, you want to decide what risks to take with your environment. Fairly and finely tuned property-rights regimes should incorporate environmental costs, and the values that individuals and communities place on their environment, into economic transactions by giving potential victims the legal power to make environmental destroyers pay or go away.