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"Another expression of scarcity was the ‘tragedy of the commons’ that was popularised by Garrett Hardin, a prominent biologist (11). Hardin acknowledged his intellectual debt to William Forster Lloyd (1794-1852), an obscure British economist who originated the idea in a pamphlet in 1833. Lloyd began with the idea of a common pasture on which villagers could graze their cattle. At first there was no problem, since the land area was ample to support a relatively small number of cattle. But as the number of cattle grew larger it became impossible for the land to support them all. Hardin used this metaphor to illustrate the broader need for limits on economic growth, and this idea has become widely accepted by environmentalists."
This sort of thinking leads to loss of freedom and control.
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This sort of thinking leads to loss of freedom and control.
***Baloney. The farmers who were overgrazing their cattle on the common areas lost freedom and control. If that area had been divided out as privately owned, the farmers would have had freedom and control over their own property and there would have been no "tragedy of the commons".