Adrian wrote: snipped: > It is not the market that would destroy the system. It is the failure > to let the market work (by retaining the common) that is destroying > the system. We are now trying to consume the waterway resource at an > unsustainable level. If everyone pays the market price for what he > consumes, then in almost all cases the resource is conserved, and > wasteful behaviour is discouraged. If no-one does, or does so at a > below-market price (as in a common, and as on the waterways) the > resource tends to be destroyed.
That is an interesting argument coming from one who has long opposed paying a boat licence based on area as opposed to length. So, long wide boats, should not pay more than long narrow, boats and yet wide boats consume more resource...ie space? I say, let the market work and charge by the area consumed! It will discourage wasteful use of the resource IMO. Roger
