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

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:00 PM
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Cost-Benefit Environmentalism RE: Europe, the US, and
> Environmentalism

> 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 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
> >availablle 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.

I don't have to know anything about building airports to make a profit -- I
can hire people who *do* know about it to build it for me, and I can hire
people to run it for me.


Jeroen

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