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Filip Blaha

National Coordinator, Czech Republic

Students For Liberty

Filip Blaha currently serves as chairman of Czech Students For Liberty. He further develops his interest in a free society through his studies of economic analysis at Masaryk University in Brno and through his work at the Centre for Economic and Market Analysis (CETA), where he focuses on issues related to environmental protection, waste management, energy, and digitization – topics on which, among others, he likes to lecture and write articles.

Blog Posts

How the sharing economy protects the environment

November 9, 2022
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Environment

The environmental movement is heavily associated with state regulation. Of course, this is natural, with most environmentalists favoring big government.  But libertarians shouldn’t discount environmentalism. We spend too much time on the long-dead debate over the existence of climate change, which only adds water to the mill of our opponents. The way forward, then, is not through denial, but through the promotion of markets and innovation, including the sharing economy, which can solve the problem far more effectively. Fewer rooms mean fewer emissions An important part

How the profit motive can protect the environment

August 22, 2022
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Environmentalism

The pursuit of profit in the free market is often cited as the main cause of environmental disasters and poor environmental quality, leading to a lot of blame placed on entrepreneurs. Their greed and ignorance of social costs is supposedly the cause of deteriorating air quality and the environment.  However, it is not really set in stone that entrepreneurs, motivated by profit, devastate the environment. Indeed, the pursuit of profit can actually protect the environment. Change starts from the bottom Many people believe that we only have two options in managing natural