GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Resource Depletion, Oil Sands, Overgrazing
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Ggrb21: lecture 10 the tragedy of the commons. So the benefit stream is available to anyone (free-for-all) The commons or common property: commons are cultural and natural resources which all members of a society can supposedly access including air, water, fish among others, two features: Control of access: the physical nature of the resource is such that controlling access by potential users may be costly, and in the extreme, virtually impossible : migrating fish and wildlife, the global atmosphere, 2. The problem according to hardin: the pollution problem is a consequence of population. It did not much matter how a lonely. Flowing water purifies itself every ten miles, my grandfather used to say, and the myth was near enough to the true when he was a boy, for there were not too many people. But as population became denser, the natural, chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
