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[27 Sep 2005 | 9 Comments | ]

Garrett Hardin’s 1968 Science paper The Tragedy of the Commons introduced many to the problem implicit in open access to common-pool resources. I believe that every thinking person must understand the tragedy of the commons because living in a world which is getting congested, we have to know the causes of our problems if we have to have a chance at solving them.
Here is Hardin within in his book Living within Limits:
… Professional publicists know there is always a good living to be made by catering to the public’s …