Re: Thank God for state intervention protecting and regulating our land
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Let's also try looking at the results of capitalism and communism upon the environment. Capitalism and the USA have indeed harmed the environment. Communism and the USSR and China have harmed the environment even more greatly than have the USA and capitalism. They polluted and trashed the rivers and land even more horribly. Did you read about that yet? Maybe you could search and read more about that, also.
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The USSR was, and China is, just an example of state-capitalism like the USA, not communist. Sweden is FAR more enviromentally sound than the USA. So what? I don't see your point. How is the discrpency between these countries relevant to the effects of a free-market on the enviroment?
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The USSR and China did great damage to the environment when they were communist. Capitalism has produced large land gifts from private owners to conservation causes, and that land is held in legal trust, protected from development, and accessible to the public, in perpetuity.
My point is that it isn't nearly as one-sided as you seem to be supposing, and that there is a lot more to the picture.
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