Actually, the
capitalist point of view is that the
government destroys the environment by
regulation and government
ownership of land. The basic argument is that it is easy to get away with polluting
land that is not privately owned because the
government is too big and slow to really stop it. Because it is public land, no one really takes
responsibility for it and there's no immediate
victim. Capitalism advocates
private ownership of land, in which case pollution would not be as big of a problem because it would be damaging
private property, and the owners of that property would be better able to take
legal action against the polluters than the
government.
That's the theory at least...