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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (93287)1/11/2005 4:34:30 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
And that becomes a economy of scale issue. It may not be possible for free market forces and environmental concern to go hand in hand. What if the real cost to the environment is carried by those yet to be born? That debt can never be collected because those who ran it up are dead. This is the reason so much of the Colorado and Rio Grande river basins are so polluted. There is no organization left to pay and we have done that recently, often building public roads into wilderness areas (at public expense) with the real reason being the cutting of trees worth less than the road cost and the damage to the salmon runs. But unless a logger also harvests native run salmon, he's not likely to bear the cost burden. Unless the lumber user is also eating salmon (and makes the connection) they are not likely to see the cost relationship in the lumber and salmon business. It may not be possible to mine, cut the trees and harvest the salmon, all sustainably. Short term market forces have allowed that very thing though.

If I can steal fruit from your trees, I can sell oranges cheaper than the farmer across from you. However, you may go bankrupt. Then I just cross the street and steal his oranges. Even though market forces could allow me to do this, it isn't sustainable and produces an adverse effect on orange farmers as a whole.
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