Can capitalism save endangered species? By Publius

The Economics

I consider myself to be an environmentalist, and so do most other people I have met in my life so far. Of these others, I find they can be classified, mostly, into one of only two types.

Before we get to the types, at the risk of stating the obvious, why worry? What are the environment’s current ills?  In order of importance: global warming; rapid extinc…