Tragedy of the commons explains resource depletion when individual interests overshadow collective needs. Exploitation examples include Amazon deforestation and fast fashion harming global ecosystems.

In 1929 Britain, the colonial architect, embarked on conclusive strategic control of Suez Canal trading route to the far East colonies of India, Pakistan and other Arab states. In order to ...

This can make rushing the losing move.” I think it’s more accurate to view the AI situation as a “tragedy of the commons.” That’s what ecologists and economists call a situation where ...

In 1968, American ecologist Garret Hardin coined the phrase “Tragedy of the Commons”. It describes the situation when shared environmental resources when overused and exploited and eventually ...

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Eventually the grass disappears and nobody can use it. That's the tragedy of the commons: When people over-use a common resource, without using voluntary restraint to help the entire community ...

Hardin argued that, when there is unchecked access to a shared but finite resource, individuals will put their self-interest ahead of the common good and thus create a ‘tragedy of the commons.’ ...