The case for recycling

[JayTee]

moorobot,

There is no precedent in law to address your questions, precisely because water privatization has never been considered. Not being able to currently answer every question about water privatization isn't a reason to disregard it.

an excerpt for those that don't read the article:

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On land, man went through the hunting and gathering stage, during which his standard of
living was appropriate to the stone age. When he graduated from this precarious existence to one
of farming, his standard of living exploded in an upward direction, as did sustainable population
size. After that came manufacturing, and then the information age, with similar upward spurts in
how well man could live, and how many of this species could be supported.

As far as the seas are concerned, however, we are still back in a cave man type of
development, where hunting and gathering are in the main the only avenues open to us. It was
not until the institution of private property took hold on the land that farming, herding and later
developments could be supported. It is a well known fact, at least within the free market
environmental community38, that the cow prospered, due to private property rights which could
avert the tragedy of the commons, while the bison almost perished as a species due to lack of
same. Nowadays, happily, this problem has been remedied with regard to the buffalo.39 But the
whale, the porpoise, edible fish and other sea species are dealt with, at present, in precisely the
same manner which almost accounted for the disappearance of the bison.

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