Free Market Environmentalism and Eco Capitalism Save People and the Planet.

Rex Curry

As an attorney in the United States, I deal with environmental laws including felony criminal charges in United States District Courts and in state courts, including Florida. I am an instructor in criminal justice at a local college.

My life in court led me to libertarian environmentalism.

A sixth generation Floridian, I am also a lifelong resident. My ancestors helped settle and develop the "Conch Republic" (Key West, Florida). The local Conch Train Tour still visits Curry Mansion because the Mansion was home to "Florida's First Millionaire" (a relative of mine). Curry Mansion is also where the famous key lime pie was first created from the smaller Key limes. Curry Key is nearby, and I reside on Curry Lake in Tampa.

Key West is the "Conch Republic" because of the edible conch mollusk that has a large shell with beautiful pink lips. Conch is the second best known edible snail, the first being escargot. Conch is used in fritters, chowders, gumbos, and other dishes.

Curry Mansion residents and all Curry family members ate Florida conchs and sea turtles, and used natural sponges, through much of Florida's past.

In the same way that Tuna is called "chicken of the sea," Floridians called the sea turtle "turkey of the sea." Conchs are still called "hurricane hams." Sponges are called ...uh... "sponges."

Past tense is mentioned above because Florida conchs, sponges and sea turtles have been ruined by soggy socialism or banned by government here in the land of liberty and capitalism. http://rexcurry.net/rex-curry-libertarian-lawyer-environmentalist.html

Friends and family can no longer eat Florida conchs or sea turtles and do not use natural sponges. http://rexcurry.net/ecoturtles.html

It is fortunate that Americans are able to use better sponges made by capitalists in factories on private property. http://rexcurry.net/commentary/sponges.html

Tourists from all over the world visit the Conch Republic and do not realize that all the conch is imported. Conch is still an important food source for natives of Haiti and the Bahamas. Harvesting Conch is illegal in U.S. waters, where lack of freedom fritters away conchs.

Sea turtles are not even able to be imported. There are no longer any sea turtle dishes in the Keys.

Government restrictions are reminder of the hardship that bureaucracy imposes upon conchs and turtles and those who love them (to eat). Property rights will put the creatures closer to people’s hearts (deep inside their stomachs).

Dwindling populations are created by bureaucrats who subvert private property rights under water in favor of trademark socialism: government ownership with unavailability and bans.

The disastrous results would be similar if government imposed the same treatment upon food, clothing, shelter, goods, services, farmlands, and all real estate. Key limes and all limes would be endangered or extinct and the Curry Family's key lime pie would be banned entirely, or made from imported limes. Tourists in the Keys would be as unaware of the lime's status as they are unaware of the conch's status.

Socialism was shown to be environmentally disastrous in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (65 million people slaughtered), the Peoples' Republic of China (49 million slaughtered), and throughout east Europe. The American government has proven that socialism is environmentally disastrous for the United States.

The keys to ecological recovery under water are property rights. All freedom is founded on private property.

It makes more sense for an eco captialist to borrow an ecology cliche' and say "I treasure Florida’s environment."

Private property and aquaculture farming will produce bigger and better conchs, sponges and sea turtles and more of them. The abundance and prosperity that inures to farming on private land will inure to all seafood and products.

Instead of socialist restrictions, Florida waters need capitalist expansions. The best environment is a capitalist environment. Mother Nature is a capitalist.

The color of a healthy environment and the color of money are the same. Libertarians are the true greens.

Fight the government’s antidisestablishmentarianism.

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net