pollution

is best combatted with capitalism. If rivers were turned into private property, there would then be incentive to keep the water clean enough to maximize revenues from leases granted to firms seeking rights to drinking water, recreation, and commercial fishing.

With a General Motors owning the Mississippi River, you can be sure that stiff effluent charges would be assessed on industries and municipalities along its banks, and that the water would be kept clean enough to maximize revenues from leases granted to firms seeking rights to drinking water, recreation, and commercial fishing.

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