The best way to protect the environment is to deter polluters with restitution.
If those who polluted had to clean up their messes, they wouldn’t make them in the first place.
Cleaning up pollution is much more time-consuming and expensive than prevention.
Unfortunately, the world’s greatest polluter, the US military, is not bound by this principle.
Usually, our military claims sovereign immunity, which basically says the sovereign, government, is exempt from its own rules.
Sovereign immunity violates the second principle of nonaggression and protects government polluters, who would be more careful if they were required to right their wrongs.
