The Tom Woods Show, episode 690.

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Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. The environment is our topic for today because of a new book that I've just

become aware of. It's called Nature Unbound, Bureaucracy versus the Environment. This is one of these

tricky questions sometimes for libertarians, so I'm glad to welcome co-author of that book,

Ryan Yonk, to the show. Ryan is a research fellow at the Independent Institute. He's

assistant research professor of economics and finance at Utah State University, and he is

executive director of Strata Policy. Ryan, welcome to the show. Thanks for having to be on,

Tom. It's great to visit with you. I'm always interested in topics like this because

they are what we might call hard questions. These are the hard questions for people who support

the market economy. It's easy enough to explain what's wrong with price controls and stuff like that.

But it's harder to understand how could you deal with things like species preservation and pollution and questions like that.

So I want to talk to you about it, and I know that in your book, Nature Unbound, you take a bit of a public choice approach.

At least that's how it looks to me.

So let's begin by looking at what some of the difficulties are with political solutions.

This is typically overlooked because it's assumed that because we must have political solutions,

there's no point in dwelling on the shortcomings because they're unavoidable.

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