Greenies should love the free market

At present I am living in a relatively socialist country, namely Denmark. Sure enough, Denmark is a free-market economy where the government is put to place with a strict constitution and where the State is forced to take small steps to decrease individual freedom. Taxes are high and regulations many, but the free market is alive and doing well thanks to bounds put on the government.

A trendy thing among generally well-doing Danish city-people is buying "organic" food (food grown without use of artificial fertilizers, for example when growing grass or raising livestock). Organic food is expensive, but many Danish people buy it anyway. As a consequence, when demand is in place, supply comes flowing. Even the cheapest of supermarkets now present organic food-products on their shelves and compete in price with the more exclusive higher-priced stores that focus on the organic buying consumers.

This is what happens in a free market when there is demand for something. A couple of decades ago, organic food was hard to find and almost impossible to afford. Only the rich, well-to-do former-hippies could buy it. Now it is easy to find and easier to buy. The free market has supplied the anti-free market Leftist creed with the products of their choice for an affordable price.

The Greenies should, but don't, learn from this. If they only want organic food, they can simply buy organic food. If they want people to live in straw-houses and cut down on energy consumption, they can simply build straw-houses and use less energy. If they want the public schools to receive more funds, they can simply transfer money to the public school system. Their problems first become real problems when they ask the State to increase taxes and multiply regulations so that their will can be forced upon everyone else.

How would the market for organic food look like today if the State had actively moved into the subsizidition and production of organic food? Economic growth would have suffered, the average guy would have been made poorer, the market would have shrunken and organic food would have been less in supply and higher in price. The Greenies should really start to appreciate the free market! In the name of anti-free marketers wishes!