>The reasons goats are proliferating are as much about nurture as nature, Mr. >Marin said by telephone from Bergen. When the country shifted from a planned >socialist economy to a market economy and a parliamentary democracy, it >largely retreated from supporting the livestock industry, leading herders to >increase the size of the goat herd to finance rising expenses, he said.<
The end of collective management and the encouragement of individualism (the shift "from a planned socialist economy to a market economy") encourages the classic "tragedy of the commons." Contrary to NC theory, this tragedy is not inherent in human organization, as E. Ostrow has pointed out. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
