Count me as a former left-moderate who rejected the Republican flavored libertarianism that is in the mainstream. It wasn’t until I got past those inconsistent buffoons that I “converted”.

As for green/libertarian fusion. I recently taught environmental philosophy using David Schmidtz’s textbook (highly recommended!). We also read Gus DiZerega’s work (his critique of Bookchin is especially good) and I did some political economy (price theory, externalities, public choice stuff, etc.). The students really liked it. The emphasis was more on Schmidtzian/DiZeregan green classical liberalism, then left-green market anarchism, but it’s a start!

Oh, and please feel free to post those comments in the L&P comments section too; over there they seem to think that potentially libertarian-friendly leftists are a figment of my imagination, and it would be nice to show them some contrary evidence.

Re Yoda – well, I also left out Tars Tarkas, Jade, and the Brainiacs. No doubt there’ll be another Green-related post in the future ….

To Matthew: Excellent idea!!! And a nice instance of “building alternative institutions.”

To Sheldon: See toward the end of this post.

Some specifics, please.

I was helping some Greens campaign up in Portland, ME, and it sounded like at least some of them got this. Here’s hoping!

I wrote a column for my paper on this idea recently. Here it is

For those not willing to click the link, I basically said that people should form a voluntary society and pay a cost for their own emissions, putting the money into mitigation (planting trees) health care (lung problems) and research on alternative fuels.

Then they should sue the shit out of anyone who doesn’t pay their share, starting with big polluters and working down to individual drivers.

P:D The only objection I have to this post is…Why didn´t you put an image of Yoda, my little green friend?