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Abstract
Most people presume that government is always responsible for providing solutions to pollution problems, including transportation pollution. This paper examines the validity of this argument from a minarchist libertarian, property rights principles perspective, and concludes that government cannot solve these problems using command-and-control legislation. The primary policy suggested for government to adopt is the strict adherence to property rights protection and enforcement regarding polluters, including themselves. Further encouragement of market forces could be accomplished by stopping interference within the market at critical points, namely the production of roads, production and sales of automobiles, and the subsidization of alternative fuels.
Notes
Notes
1. The website www.chernobyl.info has a great amount of information regarding the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
2. for a more detailed treatment of environmental atrocities in the former Soviet Union, see Feshbach and Friendly (Citation1992).