Environmentalists often claim that property rights must be controlled by the government in order to protect the environment. Why does the LEARN process seek to protect private property rights?
Although few people realize it, strong property rights do more to protect the environment than harm it. Almost all pollution in America has occurred on public land, air and water, not private property. Property rights are the most important of all civil liberties. It might surprise the reader, but all other civil liberties depend on them. The tyranny that existed in the former Soviet Union exemplifies the power of the state to control housing and business if citizens do not have strong property rights. More recent global studies have determined that private property rights are perhaps the greatest single factor in creating personal and national wealth. Although tyranny and government corruption can prevent or destroy wealth, their absence does not permit wealth creation. Within the proper legal framework, property rights are the only way the average citizen can obtain the equity needed for capital expansion and therefore wealth creation. Only wealthy nations can afford to protect their
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