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By: Paul Tweed

Paul Tweed — Tue, 20 May 2003 11:32:01 +0000

I think i’ve seen a flaw in your cod argument, or maybe i’m just being stupid.
You say cod stocks would be better preseved if we could own grids of the ocean, but cod will swim from one grid to another. What incentive have i got to preserve the cod in my grid if it’s just going to swim into someone elses for them to harvest?
If we leave it to the free market, the rarer a fish becomes, the higher the price it will fetch at market and the bigger the incentive becomes for the fishermen to land it… i think this is so because i saw on a visit to china that the most expensive and so most desirable (for the locals) food on the menu in were those that were most at endangered.

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Sat, 12 Apr 2003 05:25:18 +0000

When I was in High School, lo, these many moons ago, I heard that the domesticated banana is a new or re-installed type about every ten years as one type falls to various problems and old problems lessen.

By: Eric Schafer

Eric Schafer — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:57:00 +0000

The Slacti-christ also parrots the environ-Luddite creed in his referral to the “disgraced and discredited statistician Bjorn Lomborg” but fails to give a single substantiating fact. Just another example of demonizing your opponent if your not smart enough to debate him.

By: Russ Lemley

Russ Lemley — Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:10:20 +0000

But the genius in Dr. Slactivago’s ideology is that the extinctions themselves, regardless of cause, validate his belief that the savage imperial capitalists are to blame. This will continue until, at some point, people will see the destruction caused by the environmentalists’ frame of mind and will find a way to get out. Until then, though, many people simply will have no compelling thoughts to disagree with such crap. Actually, this cycle is very similar to what fascistic and socialist regimes go through.