I think the tragedy of the commons is also partly caused by a feeling of helplessness combined with the (partially true) belief that things are already so bad and the amount we each add, individually, is so small, that it hardly matters whether each of us adds to the problem or not and so we choose the short-term benefits over the long-term benefits because it seems (it feels as though) no matter what we do, the end result will be the same.
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