PSY435H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Certified Wood, Spruce Budworm, David Suzuki Foundation
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Good news for a change: how everyday people are helping the planet. After time, they plant more trees, saplings, etc. The ones they plant are considered to be owned by them. In this system, the main forest is shared among them, but certain trees are owned by individuals: people slowly take away and replenish leaving more for later generations. Attempts to take home more than your fair share would be met with anger from neighbours in the village. In this system, everyone has a right to useful material from a primary forest, but only within certain limits. In many countries, forests are owned by the government. It is assumed that they will use it to carry out our best wishes. Though they may end up selling it to logging companies: tragedy of the commons in this sense refers to the fact that when land is shared among many people, they can use it how they will.
