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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (8456)4/11/2002 8:53:14 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
To simplify things lets just say I disagree with the concept.

I almost ended it at that but I guess I will provide a more detailed reply.

In fact the government is more likely to waste resources by subidizing them or giving them to those that it favors. If the resources are left to the market then when they become scarcer they are used more efficently or are replaced with other resources as the price gets higher.

Your link takes me to a page titled "Tragedy of the Commons". Property rights mean you are not dealing with "the commons". The best solution to the problem of the commons is to have property rights. If you own something and can benefit from it or sell it you are less likely to waste it. If everyone owns it then no one owns it becase anyone can take it and the only incentive is to take it first. If the government controls it then its similar to the commons except to take it you have to lobby the government first.

As for it's Malthusian ideas all predictions based on them have been wrong time after time. They are largely based on assuming that abscent calamity the population of the earth will continue to increase forever at a geometric rate but there is no good reason to think this is true. Many countries now don't even have enough births to maintain their population. Many more are still growing but at slower and slower rates. In the meantime the amount of food, energy, and other resources produced has been growing much faster then the population for centuries and continues to do so. Eventually the population should stop growing at something like 1 and a half to 4 time today's population. It might actually shrink significantly after that, even to a level lower then what we have today, without any extraodinary disasters.

"However, by any reasonable standards, the most rapidly growing populations on earth today are (in general) the most miserable."

Yes but this is only a sign that the less developed countries have higher population growth. As they develop the growth will come down as it has in the countries that developed before them.

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