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Climate Change
I have, unfortunately, no confidence in capitalism in dealing with the commons. I understand that global warming takes place in a commons, right? The earth's atmosphere. But topsoil is essentially private property. And if a lot of other farms were losing topsoil and you maintained yours, there'd be a high privatized pecuniary return to doing so. So why does short term time horizons prove to be a problem there? Why doesn't the market internalize the gains and costs? Markets are occasionally quite efficient; as we see in stock market levels, occasionally ludicrously inefficient and everything in between. We're not anticipating in mitigation expenditures. We're spending nothing.