And he comments in passing that captive breeding in zoos may be a more efficient way of preserving species than actually trying to save their natural environments. Linda has a good chance of doing well financially by doing good environmentally. This is how a healthy free market in a free country ought to work. Somehow, the townspeople, without the intervention of government, will find it financially advantageous not to add that last animal. In classic fashion, having proclaimed his love of the environment, Mr. Gingrich sprinkles his chapter with proclamations that nothing works.
Superfund regulations cost too much money for the effect they produce.
I never borrowed the kettle. The kettle was never broken. It was already broken when I borrowed it. The most charitable thing I can say about the Speaker is that, had he lived in the 4th century BC, he would have been a passing rhetorician, but no Socrates. Coincidentally, today's New York Times carried a description of the end result of a tragedy of the commons allowed to play itself out over the decades.