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Well, that's sort of obviously true, right? Like, there's generations of legal and economic thinking around this problem? It's one of the central problems? This is what Coase was all about.

Take the pristine state of nature in some location prior to human interaction, and then anything a society of humans does in that location is in some sense going to injure that state. To say you have a Constitutional right, as a resident, to forbid those injuries is essentially to say you have a veto on virtually all activity. So the question isn't whether you have a procedural right to stop pollution, it's how to negotiate the balance of competing interests.

parent tptacek 1 year ago

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