Re:The Silence of the Bugs
by on_and_off on Sunday May 27, 2018 @03:02AM
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It is very frightening that as a society, we are mostly unable to plan against the tragedy of the commons, especially for global scale problems.
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Re:The Silence of the Bugs
by joe_the_user on Sunday May 27, 2018 @05:52PM
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While we're certainly seeing the rather horrible destruction of human kind's common heritage, I don't the "tragedy of the commons" model/metaphor [1 ]is at all adequate for describing this situation, which is driven by uniquely powerful and influential forces within our society rather than mere atomistic uncaring of the great masses (which is a factor but not the "driving factor").