Environmentalists about taxes on air and water

    Environmental movements in defense of nature, animals, and habitats always lack funds. Funds are needed for the development and strengthening of the managerial apparatus and the remuneration of those who already see in this idea of ​​a struggle for the habitat a tidbit of the ecological niche where services are located to satisfy the needs of man and society in a clean environment.

    Ecology is one of the promising areas of servicing the needs of society, in which money has not yet learned to withdraw for centralized development. If with material needs in the process of commodity exchange everything fell into place for a long time, then here monetary relations still almost didn't smell. Yes, they learned to withdraw money from the owners of the land, because the land provided primary material wealth. But the basic position of states in the right to resources always included ownership of water and forests and, obviously, airspace over this grace. There was only one step left - among the whole society with sufficient incomes, to begin to cultivate a respectful attitude to the use of water-air state property, as, for example, they are now trying to establish the situation with intellectual property.

    After all, there is no difference: both are the basic needs of man and society. A person needs high-quality information and he is ready to pay for it - a person needs high-quality air, and why can't we persuade him to think that he will pay for it? Information, as practice shows, is also difficult to keep from spreading like air, therefore, we must admit, we can’t deprive a person of the opportunity to breathe (compare: use information), but we can start to educate society so that its individual members feel guilty if they do not pay for the good of breath used.

    The fact that the share of the author’s income among the total income of information traders (and information-based pleasures, it’s the same thing) did not exceed 1% did not bother anyone, because all the workers in the sphere knew where and for whom the main money should go - on them, the workers themselves. Thanks to a successful combination of technologies, in the field of intellectual property there was something to pay for - supposedly for the production of carriers, the organization of concerts or the organization of work of scientists. Among them, these incomes, superprofits arose, explained by the uniqueness of property and royalties, which was partly true. Yes, they needed this truth in order to gain a foothold in incomes and take lobbying positions in the mentality of all countries. What should ecologists do? Now they need, openly and not ashamed, declare your right to a part of the income from used air and clean water. After all, they will manage this part of state property prescribed in the Constitution, therefore they have the right to receive income from taxes on basic resources.

    We suggest starting with a small one, with a few rubles a year for each breathing person, but in order to strengthen the awareness of responsibility for the need for such deductions in society. A little time will pass, and we, ecologists, will have stable incomes, albeit not the same as intellectual jugglers now have. But we are still ahead.

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