Garrett Hardin S Tragedy Of The Commons
Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons
2) The Tragedy of the Commons is an economics theory by Garrett Hardin, which he believes that the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each person’s self-interest, will affect the group’s long-term interests by depleting what is known as the common resource. This article has evoked a lot of strong emotions in myself mostly fear due to what basically Hardin is telling us is the past affects the future. In my opinion, and I believe Hardin would agree with me we are quickly over-populating the earth “our commons” therefore, making our common resources such as fossil fuels, land and water limited, eventually getting to the point were there is none or a very short supply of these common resources. This instills fear because we need those resources in order to survive and keep “our commons” running in the way in which in needs to in order for us to survive.
3) Short Section A: Page number: 1 Column number: 3 Paragraph begins with: However, given an infinite source of energy, population growth still produces an inescapable problem. Discussion: After reading this paragraph in Hardin’s article, I began to have the feeling of fear. From reading this paragraph, I believe Hardin is trying to say that population growth will produce and currently does produce a problem of our shared energy sources such as food, water and natural fossil fuels and if we continue to overpopulate eventually
We’ll find ourselves in an inescapable problem, because we will have ran out of those energy sources or they will become very limited and maybe restricted.
Short Section B: Page number: 1 Column number: 2 Paragraph begins with: A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. Discussion: This is another fearful statement by, Hardin because here I believe Hardin is talking about Darwin’s, “survival of the fittest.” That eventually
2) The Tragedy of the Commons is an economics theory by Garrett Hardin, which he believes that the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each person’s self-interest, will affect the group’s long-term interests by depleting what is known as the common resource. This article has evoked a lot of strong emotions in myself mostly fear due to what basically Hardin is telling us is the past affects the future. In my opinion, and I believe Hardin would agree with me we are quickly over-populating the earth “our commons” therefore, making our common resources such as fossil fuels, land and water limited, eventually getting to the point were there is none or a very short supply of these common resources. This instills fear because we need those resources in order to survive and keep “our commons” running in the way in which in needs to in order for us to survive.
3) Short Section A: Page number: 1 Column number: 3 Paragraph begins with: However, given an infinite source of energy, population growth still produces an inescapable problem. Discussion: After reading this paragraph in Hardin’s article, I began to have the feeling of fear. From reading this paragraph, I believe Hardin is trying to say that population growth will produce and currently does produce a problem of our shared energy sources such as food, water and natural fossil fuels and if we continue to overpopulate eventually
We’ll find ourselves in an inescapable problem, because we will have ran out of those energy sources or they will become very limited and maybe restricted.
Short Section B: Page number: 1 Column number: 2 Paragraph begins with: A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. Discussion: This is another fearful statement by, Hardin because here I believe Hardin is talking about Darwin’s, “survival of the fittest.” That eventually