CORRECTION:
overgrazing by the common people did NOT occur.
sorry.
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"In a landmark essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Hardin evoked the case
of common land where everyone has the right to graze their cattle.
Even if the land becomes overgrazed, people will continue to put their
animals on the damaged fields and even add to their herd, said Hardin.
The reasoning
Global warming: "tragedy of the commons" revisited
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=2/14/2005&Cat=7&Num=1
PARIS, (AFP) - Way back in 1968, U.S. ecologist Garrett Hardin sketched
the dilemma that today besets the Kyoto Protocol, the UN's global warming
pact which takes effect on Wedne
