Eco-Capitalism

Eco-Capitalism
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Basic Information
Aliases	Free Market Environmentalism EcoCap Green Capitalism GreenCap
Alignments	LibRight Capitalists Environmentalists
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Capitalism Environmentalism
Influenced	Green Libertarianism
Ideological Information
Foundation	Garret Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons, Science, 1968

Eco-Capitalism, sometimes referred to as Green Capitalism but mainly called Free Market Environmentalism is the son of Capitalism and Environmentalism, he believes that the market desire for more eco-friendly products combined with more resource-efficient products being more profitable, charity and the owners of property not wanting their property polluted would naturally limit the amount of pollution of the earth's environment naturally.

History

The roots of eco-capitalism can be traced back to the late 1960s. The Tragedy of the Commons, an essay published in 1968 in Garrett Hardin's Science magazine, argues that the Malthusian catastrophe is inevitable as a result of liberal or democratic government policies, so that the question of family size remains with the family and willing to take care of potential human overpopulation. Hardin argued that if families were given freedom of choice in this matter, but were removed from the welfare state, parents who chose to outgrow would not have the resources to provide for their "litter", thus addressing the problem of overpopulation. This is the first argument made from an eco-capitalist point of view: overpopulation will technically be solved by the free market. John Baden, a Garrett Hardin contributor to other works, including Managing the Commons, founded the Political Economy Research Center (now Property and Environment Research Center) in 1982. As one of the first eco-capitalist organizations established, PERC's ongoing mission is to "improve the quality of the environment through property rights and markets." The most popular eco-capitalist idea was emissions trading or cap and trade. Emissions trading, a market-based approach that allows polluters to buy or obtain permits, began to be explored in the late 1960s. International emissions trading was greatly promoted in the 1990s, when the UN adopted the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.

Personality

EcoCap loves to talk about saving the environment and will usually be found selling eco-friendly products to other green balls.

How to Draw

1. Draw a ball.
2. Color the ball gold (#FFF301)
3. Draw a green (#21B14A) dollar sign ($)
4. Around that dollar sign draw a green (#21B14A) recycling logo
5. (Optional) Draw a black (#141414) top-hat with the Fairtrade logo (Blue (#00A3E9) and lime green (#B3E61D) on it
6. Draw the eyes and you're done!

Relationships

Friends

• Capitalism - My number one investor (love ya)
• Environmentalism - Number one buyer (love ya too)
• Green Libertarianism - Libertarian counterpart and another major investor (love ya three)
• Eco-Conservatism - My Conservative сounterpart, and 2nd biggest investor (ah screw it, I love all of you)
• Green Liberalism - Does a good job at promoting me.
• Technogaianism - Solarpunk, huh? I'll definetely invest into that.

Frenemies

• Eco-Socialism - Says "I'm not a true environmentalist and I just want to cash in" because I do and there's nothing wrong with that, but at the end of the day, we both want to help our planet.
• Eco-Fascism - Has weird ideas on property, but wants to help planet just like me.
• Eco-Anarchism - "Even though we have very different ideas on how to solve climate change, we will still work together for the planet"
• Authoritarian Capitalism - Yo, can you chill with the oil drilling?
• Corporatocracy - Eco-friendly things are very profitable really IN right now.
• Veganarchism - Hates my guts, but happily consumes my veggie burgers.

Enemies

• Stalinism - Terrible industrial commie
• Maoism - More like great leap backward, amirite?
• Right-Wing Populism - Climate change is a real thing and all this eco-friendly stuff is making me rich!
• Anti-Environmentalism - I don't know what to say, other than the fact that you're bordereline dumb.

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Eco-Capitalism
• Free market environmentalism
• Property and Environment Research Center

People

• Terry L. Anderson
• Bruce Yandle
• Paul Hawken
• Lester R. Brown

Literature

• Tragedy of the Commons by Garret Hardin (1968)
• Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well by Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal (1997)
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins (1999)
• Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change by Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen (2011)

Videos

• The Free Market Solution To Environmental Issues by Radical Capitalist