From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 14:04:33 MST
Protection of the physical environment is somewhat conceivable within standard
libertarian ideas -- torts and all that. Protection of species seems rather
harder to arrange. But probably a lot of people on this list will think
"snail darters, who needs them? If farmers need honeybees they can buy them."
But now vancomycin bacteria are cropping up -- vancomycin being the antibiotic
of last resort. Your use of antimicrobial soap or bad use of medical
antibiotics increases my risk of dying. Sounds like a real market failure to
me. Anders, you might think about staying in Sweden -- at least they seem to
be taking the problem of hostile replicators seriously. Our new government
here would probably rather subsidize use of antibiotics by agribusiness than
ban and regulate their (mis)use.
http://www.freep.com/news/health/nstaph12_20021112.htm
-xx- Damien X-)
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