By Brian Barr —“Property rights are for farmers / human rights are for migrant

By Brian Barr

—“Property rights are for farmers / human rights are for migrants (hunters) – when it comes to economics these are both reflex propositions in response to defection or tragedy of the commons. The problem we have today is past that of even managing the despoiling of commons: the ecosystem has become a people-system and the main problem with this is that people can occupy every niche but they don’t eat each other. This is unnatural/unsustainable, so that it’s escalating – more effort is called for from everyone in a kind of hysteria, and there is no proper instinctive response in place.”—

The first sentence is exceptional. I can’t edit the rest down, so I’ll say that absent natural competitors, we have *YET* no institutional means to constrain humans from overconsumption.

Hence, markets in everything and constraint on reproduction to those who are productive.

Curt