Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B
by marssaxman on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:53AM
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> Terrible people can be absolutely correct.
The author of this article agrees with you, and says so; I was rather more interested in the latter half of the article, in which he explains why "the facts are not on Hardin's side".
> Would I be correct in my read of your take that you don't believe the tragedy of the commons exists?
The privatization of the commons seems to me the much greater tragedy, leading to large-scale exploitation and irresponsible environmental degradation. From what I see, distributed networks of human-scale communities tend to manage shared resources in a sustainable way; to fuck things up on a grand scale, you need centralized power and a managerial distance from consequences.
The author of this article agrees with you, and says so; I was rather more interested in the latter half of the article, in which he explains why "the facts are not on Hardin's side".
> Would I be correct in my read of your take that you don't believe the tragedy of the commons exists?
The privatization of the commons seems to me the much greater tragedy, leading to large-scale exploitation and irresponsible environmental degradation. From what I see, distributed networks of human-scale communities tend to manage shared resources in a sustainable way; to fuck things up on a grand scale, you need centralized power and a managerial distance from consequences.