The Tragedy of the Commons

"Much of man's world is treated as a "commons" wherein individuals have the right to freely consume its resources and return their wastes. The 'logic of the commons' ultimately produces its ruin as well as the demise of those who depend upon it for survival. The commons relationship between people and their environment was noted by Garrett Hardin in a 1968 paper published in the journal SCIENCE."

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The Tragedy of the Commons