5.19 Capitalism Is the Real Deal For the Environment

  1. Why is the degree of impact of human activity on global warming in question? Answer
  2. Assuming that human activity does have a large impact due to increasing CO2 levels primarily from the burning of fossil fuels and that the impact is seriously harmful. What actions are out of the question and why? Answer
  3. How should we address the potential threat of human activity caused increased CO2 levels? Answer
  4. What does it mean, as humans, to strive to do more with less? Answer
  5. What does doing more with less mean in a business context? Give some examples from the book. Answer
  6. What is the societal result of the pursuit of doing more with less by both individuals and businesses? Give an example from the book. Answer
  7. How has the pursuit of doing more with less resulted in more efficient use of natural resources over the past 150 years? Answer
  8. What may we call a society where individuals and businesses trade and cooperate with one another, pooling our capacity for invention and ingenuity, and sharing an implied pursuit of doing more with less simply because it’s in our self-interest? Answer
  9. Why does a capitalist social system best meet the needs of a resource optimizing society? Why is the information technology industry a good example of this? Answer
  10. Why is statism detrimental to a resource optimizing society? Answer
  11. Give some examples from the past century of how statist societies cause environmental damage by preventing voluntary resource optimization. Answer
  12. How would more nuclear energy have reduced CO2 emissions if it hadn’t been severely restricted the past 50 years? Answer
  13. In what way does capitalism allow to not only do more with less, but more with more energy? Answer
  14. What is the only role of government under capitalism with respect to the environment? Give a few examples from the book and others that you can think of. Answer
  15. What role do environmental watch group serve in a capitalist society? Answer
  16. In summary, why is capitalism the real deal for the environment? Answer

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