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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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View full show notes at http://anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana022.
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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"
Babcock Ranch
American Prairie Reserve (APR)
PERC - Property and Environment Research Center
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.
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