Re: Cost-Benefit Environmentalism RE: Europe, the US, and Environmentalism

[John D. Giorgis]

At 01:35 PM 7/22/01 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>> So, if this piece of wilderness is going to be sacrificed, I'm better off
>> building an airport there myself, so *I* (and not you) will collect the
>> profits. I can then use those profits to buy land elsewhere (including
>that
>> patch of Brazilian rainforest) to set it aside as wilderness forever.
>> Better yet, I can buy a lot more land than I could have bought from the
>> money you offered me.
>>
>
>This assumes that the profits for building the airport are as available for
>you as for JDG. That isn't always true. Indeed, it usually isn't.

Indeed, if you know almost nothing about building airports - you might not
be able to earn a profit at all.

JDG
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