The Environment

Jim Fedako explains that if recycling were really efficient and not wasteful, people would not have to be browbeaten to do it.

The Gulf Coast was hit with two disasters: Katrina and government. At every level and in every way, writes William Anderson, it made everything worse.

Far from having assisted in the crisis, writes Christopher Westley, FEMA actively made it worse by urging rescue departments not to assist. How much better off would the Gulf Coast be if FEMA had never existed? Much!

Walter Block found himself in the middle of a state-enhanced catastrophe. Here is his story.

What we are seeing in New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast region, writes Lew Rockwell, is the most egregious example of government failure in the United States since September 11, 2001.

The government created the flood—written in 1999 about a

When the State of Alabama recently announced that it was banning the importation of Vietnamese basa fish, writes William Anderson, officials even intimated that some sneaky terrorists might use it kill Americans.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Environmentalism sees market failure as the cause of environmental problems. Block sees the absence of private property rights and the interference of government as the causes of problems. Libertarianism provides solutions. Man is not a cancer on the planet. Markets have not failed.