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Right, As I often say, tragedy of commons will turn out to be our great filter. Not just at individual level but every level up including city, state & nations.
by DesiLurker 4y ago
Right, As I often say, tragedy of commons will turn out to be our great filter. Not just at individual level but every level up including city, state & nations. It works great for when the problems faced are aligned with individual short term best interests not so well when collective action is needed.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoIt’s not just tragedy of the commons, it’s also a lack of collective will to not keep borrowing from the future and kicking the can. Debt, the biome, economic systems depending on never ending growth and an ever growing population pyramid. There is no incentive to think long term and preserve for tomorrow. This will catch up to us eventually, and ignorance will be plead.
- mistrial9 4y agoregulated and science-based Forestry seems to have destroyed thousands of years of forest growth in less than a hundred years of English command, here in California. Nothing about it was 'commons' .. Secondly, the largest polluter of the Pacific Ocean has been the US Navy, on shore and off.. also fully 'not commons' Let's ignore the politics and look with a science lense at what is really going on?
- DesiLurker 4y agobut Politics IS what is going on here. we can fix climate change with some effort. we can also fix biodiversity loss & most social issues with some restructuring. the problem is that those who stand to lose are the ones politicizing this to ensure that a consensus does not arise. Read 'Dark Money' by Jane Mayer if you have doubts. In light of so much manipulation I think its rather Naive to say that 'I dont wanna get political', No lets get political because the science is settled.