[news] "Tragedy of the commons" revisited

[Resist!ca]

"Way back in 1968, U.S. ecologist Garrett Hardin sketched the dilemma that today besets the Kyoto Protocol, the UN's global warming pact which takes effect on Wednesday. In a landmark essay, 'The Tragedy of the Commons,' Hardin evoked the case of common land where everyone has the right to graze their cattle."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/15/73113/5175