libertarian environmentalism

Environmentalism and Free Market Economics are totally completely holistically compatible.

In fact, free market economics, I would argue, is the only way to achieve long term peaceful environmental improvement.

To form this conclusion I start with the foundational principle that "evil" within humans, doesn't exist. I whole heartedly disagree with the premise that there exist so called "evil" people in this world. I do agree that there is bad education, mental illness, and perverse incentives, however this should by no means lead anyone who finds any amount of trust in their neighbor to conclude that another is by definition "evil." Such an assertion is the basis for a logical paradigm that leads to totalitarianism, communism, as well as generally irritating people. If one were to truly believe that there exist a sense of evil in people in this world, than they should just as soon, logically, confine themselves to a cube and live out their days with a catheter and feeding tube.

Society must trust. We carry out trusting instinctively. Learning to trust and distrust builds the basis for understanding contracts: both social and written. Trade, in all of it's forms, is the manifestation of trust. It follows that any restriction on trade is, at it's core, a laceration at a citizen's cognitive ability to trust and should be immoral.

Libertarian Environmentalism, as I define it, is an particular emphasis on human kind's ability to trust a contract that benefits them. Environmentalism benefits humans, therefore people request it and are willing to pay for it. If they were not, than they would be irate that their taxes were presently going to it; which is essentially the same thing. I citizens are willing to pay for it, why not let them do it individually, with the knowledge of trust that they individually have. I ask, if humans are not evil, why cannot they make decisions for themselves? I believe, and you may disagree with me, that individuals, and the entrepreneur represent the basis of trust we can believe in. Very little outside of that force has the incentive to achieve a catered local environmental movement that represents true change to a cleaner society.