PERC research fellow Holly Fretwell joins the Six Cents Report podcast to discuss free market environmentalism. They explore the power of economic incentives and compare government mandated, regulatory approach to conservation to a market-based, cooperative approach. The origin of property rights, the tragedy of the commons, and innovative examples of “enviropreneurs” are also discussed.
In Yellowstone, conservation starts with taking care of the people responsible for protecting the park’s resources.
This report recommends actionable reforms that can help the Forest Service work better with states, tribes, and private partners to fix America’s forests.
But there is no reason for believers in individual liberty, property rights, and free markets to abandon the defense of those values when a conservation group’s rights are at stake.
Bad forest management is at the root of the conflagrations.
Efforts like the 30 by 30 initiative have the best chance of delivering the kind of conservation America needs when the government engages with the private sector as an equal partner.
An attack on conservationists’ rights threaten protections for all of us and to further politicize the environment.