I was just a little annoyed at the repetitive "I am discovering" nature of the article. Wayne Hage wrote a book on corruption in environmental laws going back 130 years! Ron Arnold wrote two books on it. Diane Alden wrote a book on it. Peter Huber wrote a book on it... It's a long list.
I spent $300,000 and three years of my life at 90 hours per week on it writing and publishing ANOTHER book on this same topic of environmental corruption. It not only details the nature of this problem (and far more about its causes); it defines a whole new architecture for a privatized free-market in environmental management and proposes workable solutions and an implementation strategy.
I'll have to agree with you.
This article is all conclusions and rant. D@mned little fact or argument.
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