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The extreme forms of Libertarianism or Anarchy are only possible if everyone engages in good faith. They have no built-in protections against bad actors. Someone wants to divert a river for any reason? Sucks to be downstream.
Anarchism can. Anarchism is not the stupid "no rules" thing the media portrays. It's a lack of hierarchy, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have government, rules, and protections. In fact, I think any Anarchist would agree they're required or else people can be exploited and lose their freedom, or things like your example can happen. We should just do it in a more cooperative form, not with a ruling class making the rules for us peasants.
How can rules be enforced without a heirarchy of privilege? What stops someone from saying "I don't consent to being told what to do"?
To use a real world example of anarchism in action, shopping carts in a parking lot. I'm doubtful anyone has said "you have to return your shopping cart to a cart return" but the generally people do return their shopping carts. There's also people in vests that come around and clean up the parking lot of loose shopping carts. Sometimes people might offer to pass off a cart they just finished using to someone else, or maybe even snag and extra errant cart on their way to cart return. There's no heirarchy, no authority on high dictating the rules, just people doing their thing and generally following the rules but there is someone who is paid to make sure things get cleaned up when the inevitability of stupidity happens.