Rob Kall: Okay
Paul Craig Roberts: Very
few of them! You talking about Teddy Roosevelt? [laughing]
Paul Craig Roberts: Yeah.
Yeah! Very few. And" and umh what you see there, you know, They've had
permission in this last decade to cut down almost all the remaining old growth forest.
There's no constraints on fracking or mountain top removal. And the pollution
effects of these things are enormous. I'm" I'm convinced of the cost of
fraction, of fracking, greatly exceeds the value of the natural gas that they
get. But the costs are imposed on everybody else. They're not part of the cost to
the firms to do the fracking. So for them"
Rob Kall: [interjecting]
Are there" are, are there any politicians who have attempted to" make any laws
or regulations that would include those costs?
Paul Craig Roberts: There
probably have been, but you see the" the reason it can't happen is " whereever
the fracking is going on, the company is
the biggest" financial power there. And the cost of it, are being distributed all
over lots of smaller guys, smaller operations, and" and water systems somewhere
else. And" and I suppose if all the people being damaged could somehow get
together and get organized, they could stop it. But the ability to organize
that many people is almost non existant. So" for this reason, there's no real
constraint on the fracking or the mountain top removal. You know, they go in,
and just blow up, blow the top of the mountain off.
Rob Kall: Or
the use of the fertilizer" I mean there are countless examples of" of how this
was going on. It does seem kind of
helpless when you look at the" the obstacles that are currently in place to
institute any kind of rules or changes that would include those costs.
Now your book title also talks about globalism, and globalization--at
least the German version, the Failure of globalism'?
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