The article at http://www.lewrockwell.com/reisman/reisman15.html by George
Reisman is indeed simplistic, but he's on the right track. The two
indispensable books for market-oriented environmentalism are "Ultimate
Resource 2" (1996) by the late great Julian Simon and "The Skeptical
Environmentalist" (2001) by Bjorn Lomborg. Chapter 1 of the latter is
online, as well as a detailed response from Lomborg to his critics:
http://www.lomborg.com/skeptenvironChap1.pdf
http://www.greenspirit.com/lomborg/
The entire text of Ultimate Resource 2 is available in the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020811072932/http://www.juliansimon.com/writing
s/Ultimate_Resource/
Reading just the first four chapters will change your worldview forever.
The most comprehensive critique of Julian Simon and "cornucopianism" is
"Perilous Optimism" by Ernest Partridge:
http://gadfly.igc.org/papers/cornuc.htm. Partridge's arguments are
economically illiterate. I have a draft response to his article at
http://humanknowledge.net/NaturalScience/Biology/Ecology/Ultimate_Resource_d
efended.html.
Brian Holtz
2006 California LP Platform Committee Rep
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2004/6 Libertarian candidate for Congress, CA14 (Silicon Valley)
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blog: http://knowinghumans.net/>