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It is very frightening that as a society, we are mostly unable to plan against the tragedy of the commons, especially for global scale problems.
by on_and_off 8y ago
It is very frightening that as a society, we are mostly unable to plan against the tragedy of the commons, especially for global scale problems.
- joe_the_user 8y agoWhile we're certainly seeing the rather horrible destruction of human kind's common heritage, I don't the "tragedy of the commons" model/metaphor [1 ]is at all adequate for describing this situation, which is driven by uniquely powerful and influential forces within our society rather than mere atomistic uncaring of the great masses (which is a factor but not the "driving factor"). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons