# Capitalism Can Save the Environment

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/capitalism-can-save-the-environment>

**By** Jerry Taylor, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus

**Published:** April 28, 2014

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Jerry Taylor joins us for a discussion on environmental protection and energy use.

Is economic growth incompatible with a clean planet?  
  
Jerry Taylor is considered to be one of the most widely cited and influential critics of green energy and federal environmental policy.

Is economic growth incompatible with a clean planet? Doesn't the government already do a good job of regulating pollution? How would markets do better?

**Show Notes and Further Reading**

Ronald Coase, [_The Problem of Social Cost_](http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/file/coase-problem.pdf/) (article)

Murray Rothbard, [_Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution_](http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1982/5/cj2n1-2.pdf/) (article)