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You just have to look at the environmental record of companies where there is no government (hint: Africa, SE Asia, Brazil) to see how strongly the free market seeks to be environmentally friendly.
The actual data, as opposed to a handful of flimsy examples (2200 tons of wood - lol), shows that profits and the environment rarely go hand in hand,
especially for those likely to do the most polluting.
It's worrying when someone is prepared to sacrifice the truth to make a political point.
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None of the countries you listed have a history of any type of capitalism. The idea of successful anarchocapitalism presupposes that the society in question accepts that capitalism is the best system.
you're not the first person to think that though
From Borodog-
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I've posted on this subject many times. The absence of a state does not set a society on the road to utopia. The key to anarchocapitalism is not really the "anarcho" part; it is the "capitalism" part. The West's history of capitalism and culture of property rights is what has made it wealthy, not the form of government. There can be no capitalism without property rights. The Third World is the way it is, in both Somalia (which has government, by the way; it has 4 the last time I checked), and in well over a hundred countries around the globe because there is little culture of property rights, no systems in place for establishment of title of property (ownership), or peaceful systems of resolving title disputes. Because of this, capital cannot be leveraged, there is little investment, hence most of the population stays very close to subsistence because productivity is low. Why invest in something or save if you are uncertain that you will be able to keep what you've saved or produced?
There's precious little capitalism in the Thrid World, and hence there can be no anarchocapitalism, including Somalia. Asserting that Somalia is anarchocapitalistic is simply a canard.
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