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Environmental Coercion

Environmental Coercion Huacachina Coercion is physical enforcement of one's own will on others against the wishes of the people. In this post, what I would like to explore is the notion of environmental coercion and its legitimacy. Environmental coercion is coercing someone with the use of the surrounding environment. As a side note, I would like to mention that environmental coercion has no association with environmentalism. Friedrich Hayek argues that environmental coercion is a real coercion like any other. As an example, he lets us imagine an oasis in a desert, and this oasis owned by [...]