Are exponential population growth, consumer economics, and climate change the...

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shahbarak

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...ultimate "tragedy of the Commons? Individually and as nations we fight to protect what we "own". But what are we doing to protect the Commons nobody owns (unless privatized) but on which life itself depends - clean air, water, sustainable food, and assurance of peace. It's apparently not safe to leave it to politicians?
 
air, water, food and military protection are local to a country.
There are areas where smaller countries do compete over the same river, but UN takes care of them most of the time.

The only truly common thing is climate. The resolution will be that Western countries will cut own emissions of CO2, then pay Chinese to to cut theirs.
 
In modern countries the concept of "National Parks" is the beginning of a new awareness of Common property. It does require a somewhat democratic country for the people to feel that it is their common, or public, property. It is also in those countries where unrestrained population growth decreases. It can only be trusted to those politicians who can be fired through the democratic process.
The tragedy of Commons happened because it was set up for commercial use, which always leads to abuse. There are state parks in the US which allow commercial use, and the people are trying to stop that now. If the people of the Earth could see their planet as common property, not a corporate resource, then the same tragedy could be averted.

Short answer=Yes.
 
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