> It's interesting that getting people to cooperate to improve the commons is so hard As an Indian I attribute this to a combination of the bystander effect an

> It's interesting that getting people to cooperate to improve the commons is so hard As an Indian I attribute this to a combination of the bystander effect and broken windows theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory)... By their powers combined, all of us (even those among the 'educated class') turn into captain litterbug.