[Carry_Okie]

Your description of the regulatory loop has a missing element: The environmental activists are often funded by the tax-exempt "charitable" foundations of industry stockholders. That perfidy is not just opportunistic, but is manipulated and has been for over sixty years.

Conservatives have long been suspicious of the liason between government and environmentalists but, because conservatism generally has a pro-business bent, we haven't been good at delving adequately into just how business plays into the enviro-political regulatory picture, particulary focusing on the ways that it has been exploiting corrupt politicians to game the system.

This post has a pretty good description of just such a game.

The whole mechanism would be a supremely delicious irony but for the toll in environmental damage and violations of private property rights that are involved.

Correct. The whole key to our case is moral authority, but unless we exercise that authority by superior stewardship, we have no basis for a claim.

This is just about my complete grasp of the situation as I presently understand it. I defer, therefore, to our demonstrated resident expert to clarify or modify anything I've stated that may be slightly off-target.

lmao

[Carry_Okie]

Ping list ping. :-)

[HKMk23]

Thanks for the link to your other voluminous post.

I guess I'm not only going to have to read your book, but I'm going to have to take a speed-reading course; there's just too much information to reasonably ingest at a paltry 600wpm.

[HKMk23]

The whole key to our case is moral authority, but unless we exercise that authority by superior stewardship, we have no basis for a claim.

Here's an interesting perspective on stewardship, moral authority and the environment that you might enjoy.
World Views & Earth Day