Horses produce the most horse manure, which will turn into horse manure powder after drying, corroding skin, clothes and so on. Horseshoe makes noise; The horse will die on the road, and it will be very troublesome if no one moves. . .
There is a book called "The Good Old Days, They were Terrible", which tells how bad all aspects of our lives were in the past. Modernization has brought us a lot of convenience, greener, more environmentally friendly and healthier.
From the time when one party hurts the other party to the time when the environment is polluted, the method of Coase's law is to understand these two problems from the perspective of resource competition. So whether the carriage is more environmentally friendly or the car is more environmentally friendly, we can also look at it from the perspective of resource competition. Competitive resources are environmental resources, which will be consumed after all, and are also the consumption of environmental resources. Whoever does well should be consumed.
Ecologists have found it necessary to introduce wolves into Yellowstone National Park. The question is how many wolves should be introduced? Everyone will start from their own cognitive point of view, keep fewer wolves and hope to keep animals in the park, and raise more wolves and hope to hunt.
Different people have different opinions. For example, when they hunt wolves in the park, they must hope that the more wolves, the better. If they hunt rabbits, they definitely want as few wolves as possible. Another example is the park manager. Of course, I hope the more wolves, the better, because the funds can be more. Ask environmentalists again. Of course, they want as many wolves as possible. The more wolves there are, the more primitive the environment is.
What should I do in the end? Finally, find a solution from the perspective of Coase's law. This is the person who keeps his mouth healthy. If he can prove that his animals were killed by wolves, the werewolf keeper must compensate them. In this way, people who keep wolves will know that there is a price to pay for keeping wolves, and they should be controlled within a certain range. We usually call this price KOS in payment, so balance is the most important thing.
Regarding environmental protection, sometimes the market itself can find a better way, and it will be counterproductive to use government compulsory means.
In the early 1980s, there was a book called Clean Coal and Dirty Air, which recorded a policy mistake of the government in implementing environmental protection. Coal pollution in the east is big but cheap, while coal pollution in the west is small but expensive. Workers in the west demand the government to improve environmental protection, so the government forces factories to buy expensive filters. After the factory paid for the filter, the cost increased, but it could not pay a higher price for the less polluted coal in the west, so it had to buy the coal in the heavily polluted east, which made the environmental pollution more serious.
Another question, is cloth napkins or paper napkins more environmentally friendly in high-end restaurants? There are four answers, in order of comprehensiveness:
Having said so much, it is actually telling us that environmental protection should be advocated, but it is not necessary to advocate it too much. What matters is balance.
The pollution damage of human behavior to the environment is mutual, and it is a kind of resource competition in itself. We can find a balance through Coase's consideration.
My answer is yes, garbage sorting is helpful to environmental protection.
If there is no sorting when throwing garbage, then environmental protection workers will spend a lot of time sorting garbage; And if the garbage is classified when it is thrown, then everyone who throws garbage only needs to pay a small cost.
Coase's law says that injuries are mutual, and the party with the lowest cost of avoiding injuries should bear the main responsibility, so it is natural to complete the classification work in the process of throwing garbage. This is actually a kind of competition for resources, and resources are the time resources for garbage classification. The lowest resource cost at this time is that everyone classifies separately.
If the garbage is not sorted when it is thrown, but the sanitation workers are sorted, then in the end, the sanitation workers will not have more time to do more complicated garbage disposal work, and at the same time, they will demand higher wages and the cost of sanitation workers will be high. The environmental sanitation bureau was the first to bear the pressure, but in the end it was actually shared with the residents.