Tragedy Of Commons: Elaborating On The Population Problem

Garret Hardin, a well known philosopher/scientist, in 1968, writes an article, Tragedy of Commons, elaborating on the population problem. Tragedy of the Commons is an economic problem in which every individual tries to reap the greatest benefit from a source. What many people don’t understand is that everyone cant get a profit off one good, because of this every individual who consumes an additional unit directly harms others who can no longer enjoy the economic growth/benefit. The Tragedy of Commons reminds me so much of imperialism and colonization. Many philosophers implicate that America is a melting pot, because of the different cultures, traditions and ethnic groups. Because of when America was discovered and every country wanted to colonize and increase their economic growth, America has many different cultures, traditions and ethnic groups. The Tragedy of Commons social class's dilemma's fabricate on people's short term selfish interests and their common goods. Hardin's key assumptions were bio physically finite, overpopulation is an example of the Tragedy of Commons, the commons system for breeding, but the problem to all of these assumptions is gaining people's consent of coercion. Long after Hardin publishes this article “Tragedy of Commons”, Beryl L. Crowe, well respected scientist, looks over the Tragedy of Commons and revises it. Beryl L. Crowe's revisited copy dissent and consent with some of Hardin's point. Garret Hardin questioned the correlation between military and

Beryl belief included not just technical but political solutions and she didn’t think that morality was needed in this situation as much . Instead of just using natural science like Hardin did , Crowe also believed that our society needed two insular scientific communities: natural and social. Crowe believed that she should avoid the psychological and professional aspects of the