The traditions of private property ownership since the Renaissance have been adjusted by the restraint that the owner may not do harm to others through the use of his property. Every state in the Union, as a result, has zoning laws at the state or county level, and some smaller divisions such as planned communities go so far as to outlaw aesthetic offense be defining acceptable color schemes.

There is nothing about private property that justifies -- for example -- burning rubber tires in a lot near a nursery school, or near a populated office center. On the larger scale, private ownership fdoes not justify massive carbon emission if it is demonstrably harmful to the environment.

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Don't be specious.

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