tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506249.post3357634300445469562..comments2023-11-05T04:43:31.501-05:00Comments on Kenneth Anderson's Law of War and Just War Theory Blog: Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the market, and ecological scarcityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506249.post-12458242380638908692007-07-29T14:07:00.000-05:002007-07-29T14:07:00.000-05:00The professor was an interesting and sometimes con...The professor was an interesting and sometimes contradictory character. This was one of his contradictory aspects, I think. He didn't believe in dictatorial rule; but he didn't really believe in democracies either (since he kept many of the reasons for his actions secret).<BR/><BR/>But free market and ecological preservation/conservation are not contradictory. Historically, the worst abuses of the environment have taken place in dictatorships of one stripe or another. When the people who profit or lose from the use of a resource own and control the resource, they tend to shepherd its use.<BR/><BR/>In the book, the environmental disaster was caused by a government that owned all the property, set all the laws, and ruled all the people without consent. That's pretty much the extreme version of communistic socialism.wtanksleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03283393679440645366noreply@blogger.com