I just want to add that tragedy of the commons is NOT most certainly true. It is if 'people could just take as they please', but that is not what people are as

I just want to add that tragedy of the commons is NOT most certainly true. It is if 'people could just take as they please', but that is not what people are asking for, and not what happens in practice. I will refer the following article to show how tragedy of the commons did not happen in common land in the last couple of centuries: http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enc...