Tragedy of the Commons and Species Extinction

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“The demand for ivory has nothing whatsoever to do with poaching. There is a ‘rapacious’ demand for pork, too, on the part of ‘Asians,’ and everyone else for that matter, and yet the pig does not face ‘extinction by poaching’ or from any other source. The same is true for steaks and cows, wings and chickens, etc. There is also ‘a rapacious Asian demand for’ things like cement for building, wood for chopsticks, steel for ships, etc., etc. And, yet, miraculously, there is no shortage, let alone total disappearance of, any of these things. No, if we want to ferret out the source of the plight of the elephant, we must look at an institution that has played havoc with more, far more, than merely the elephant.”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/walter-e-block/that-sexist-walter-block/

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