A Million Green Ideas

Or that everything we do, get, lose etc is directly linked to our own thoughts, actions and beliefs with no bearing on the environment we live in?

I ask this because plenty of people live in certain environments BUT they don’t all turn out the same way.

Best reply by Pfo:

I know that they are.

Consider the case of twins, they are genetically equivalent but they develop different interests and opinions as people as a result of their life experiences.

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Do you think people are a product of their environment?

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My boss is always taking about how pro-environmentalists are just liberal socialists, but to me it seems that conserving the environment would be, um, conservative.

How do we get people to be more environmentally conservative, without making this a big and stupid socialist versus capitalist or liberal versus conservative debate?
Thanks for the answer about Free Market Environmentalism…

It’s a shame that mainstream religion has not addressed this issue more directly. Let’s get out in the streets people!

Best reply by LibertarianMPA:

FREE MARKET ENVIRONMENTALISM!!!

Don’t think it exists? Is Clorox making environmentally safe bleach? Does Whole Foods pack in the consumers? Is Macy’s selling “green” clothing?

“Free-market environmentalists are environmentalists who believe that in many–though not necessarily all–situations, markets will do far more to protect the environment than regulation or bureaucracy.”

“Like all environmentalists, free-market environmentalists believe that we face serious environmental problems, including pollution, habitat destruction, toxics, and endangered species. Unlike some environmentalists, free-market environmentalists believe that decentralized tools such as user fees, incentives, and markets will solve those problems better than centralized tools such as subsidies, bureaucracy, and regulation.”

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How do we conserve the environment without becoming socialist?