ana022: AGENDA 21 Doesn't Exist | Free Market Nature Preserves | Who's Down With PPP?

We expand on some of the AGENDA 21 topics raised in episode #ana021. We expand on Smart Growth, libertarian approaches to preserving nature, and Public-Private Partnerships.

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Intro

#ana021 was like drinking from a fire hose. This episode is smooth sippin'.

Discussion

• Revisiting Smart Growth
  • Rosa Koire - Throws out the baby with the bathwater
  • A better criticism of Smart Growth, from Strong Towns
  • Smart Growth is planned growth?
  • Babcock Ranch, FL - The first 100% solar city
  • Agenda 21 doesn't exist?
• Libertarian approaches to preservation
  • American Prairie Reserve (APR)
  • Are the Rockefellers still relevant?
  • Economic power vs. coercive power - gutting local ranching industries
  • The Totality of Morality
  • Putting price on the land
  • Federal lands - preserved for resource extraction
  • Bison will always be cattle to me
  • Federal land reclamation movement
  • Market distortion whack-a-mole - homestead size limits and grazing rights
  • Homestead claims and statutes of limitation
  • Where Locke is lacking - Homesteading for the use of preservation
  • Preservation requires active defense against trespassers and poachers
  • Homesteading applied on an ongoing basis?
  • What constitutes abandonment?
  • The National Forest Service preserves Forestry, not Forests
  • Preventing land hoarding
  • Market forces - balancing diverse interests
  • Oil & Gas fracking developments - access roads surrounded by ranch and wild land
  • High value, small footprint
  • Oil & Gas companies are more bureaucratic than governments
  • Nobody wants an oil spill
  • Safety is not binary - it's about managing risk
  • Barrow Island Nature Preserve
• Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
  • The efficiency of a private corporation with the pocketbook and social oversight
  • Bike Share - profit sharing with the city
  • Privatization vs. Privateering
  • Privateering - pirates licensed by the king
  • Replacing a crappy government monopoly with a crappy private monopoly
  • Monopoly and the economic calculation problem
  • Our Solution - Opt-in trusts
  • "Privatization" is a confusing term
  • Government ownership is not "public"
  • muh voting
  • The "will of the people" is not up for a vote
  • We need a new term - Publicization? Divestiture? De-statalizing?
• Conclusion
  • It's not productive to fight Agenda 21
  • Tax breaks vs. fighting Agenda 21
  • Burden of proof is on the person arguing against a tax break
  • We're agnostic to ends - just use voluntary, non-coercive means

Links/Resources

• Strong Towns - "Please, I'm not a Smart Growth Advocate"
  • Blog Post
  • Podcast Episode
• Babcock Ranch
• American Prairie Reserve (APR)
• PERC - Property and Environment Research Center
  • APR article by Shawn Regan
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund Divested from Oil
• Stephan Kinsella Talk at 2019 NH Liberty Forum - "How to Think About Property"
  • Tim's question is at 38:50
• Chevron's Barrow Island Nature Preserve
• Divvy - Bike Share Public-Private Partnership in Chicago
• Privateering
• Rothbard discusses the Economic Calculation Problem (from Man, Economy, and State chapter 9) Our analysis serves to expand the famous discussion of the possibility of economic calculation under socialism, launched by Professor Ludwig von Mises over 40 years ago. Mises, who has had the last as well as the first word in this debate, has demonstrated irrefutably that a socialist economic system cannot calculate, since it lacks a market, and hence lacks prices for producers’ and especially for capital goods.Now we see that, paradoxically, the reason why a socialist economy cannot calculate is not specifically because it is socialist! Socialism is that system in which the State forcibly seizes control of all the means of production in the economy. The reason for the impossibility of calculation under socialism is that one agent owns or directs the use of all the resources in the economy. It should be clear that it does not make any difference whether that one agent is the State or one private individual or private cartel. Whichever occurs, there is no possibility of calculation anywhere in the production structure, since production processes would be only internal and without markets. There could be no calculation, and therefore complete economic irrationality and chaos would prevail, whether the single owner is the State or private persons.
• Anarchitecture - Public Space Series