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A Tragédia dos Comuns: Compreendendo a Importância da Sustentabilidade
Em 1833, William Foster Lloyd observou algo fascinante sobre as pastagens comuns – aquelas sem dono, que podem ser utilizadas por todos. Ele percebeu que essas pastagens estavam em condições consideravelmente piores do que aquelas que tinham um dono. Por quê? Simplesmente porque o interesse próprio de curto prazo das pessoas que as utilizavam fazia com que consumissem recursos em excesso, e a longo prazo, todos sofriam.
A Tragédia dos Comuns: Um Exemplo Prático
George se perguntou se deveria comprar outro animal e decidiu que sim, pois assim ganharia mais dinheiro. Ele sabia que estava sobrecarregando a pastagem, mas não se importava, queria o dinheiro extra. O problema é que todos fizeram a mesma coisa e, no final, a pastagem foi brutalmente sobrecarregada e, portanto, tornou-se inutilizável. Algumas pessoas tiveram lucros a curto prazo, mas, a longo prazo, todos perderam. No caso das pastagens que tinham um dono, isso não acontecia, pois era do melhor interesse dos proprietários explorar sua propriedade de forma sustentável.
Aplicações Atuais da Tragédia dos Comuns
Situações semelhantes ocorrem com frequência, como no caso das áreas de pesca, como os Grandes Bancos de Newfoundland, que costumavam abrigar uma grande população de bacalhau há cerca de 50 anos. No entanto, a tecnologia permitiu que as pessoas pescassem muito mais peixes do que antes, o que levou ao colapso da população de peixes e, consequentemente, da indústria pesqueira nos anos 90, que talvez nunca se recupere.
Da mesma forma, os seres humanos estão poluindo os oceanos e a atmosfera da Terra, gerando engarrafamentos durante o horário de pico. Aqui está a tragédia dos comuns: a falta de cuidado com os recursos compartilhados que resulta em prejuízos para todos.
Adotando a Sustentabilidade para um Futuro Melhor
É crucial que aprendamos com esses exemplos e adotemos práticas sustentáveis em todas as áreas de nossas vidas. Devemos agir com responsabilidade em relação aos recursos naturais e ao meio ambiente, garantindo que possam ser utilizados de forma equitativa pelas gerações futuras.
Portanto, é fundamental que promovamos a conscientização e a educação sobre a importância da sustentabilidade. Somente assim poderemos evitar futuras tragédias dos comuns e garantir um futuro saudável e próspero para o nosso planeta e para todos os seres que nele habitam.
FAQ
O que é a tragédia dos comuns?
A tragédia dos comuns é um termo que descreve a exploração insustentável de recursos compartilhados, levando ao seu esgotamento e prejuízos para todos os envolvidos.
Como evitar a tragédia dos comuns?
Evitar a tragédia dos comuns requer a adoção de práticas sustentáveis, conscientização e educação sobre a importância de cuidar dos recursos compartilhados de forma equitativa.
Conclusão
A tragédia dos comuns é um conceito crucial para entender os desafios enfrentados em relação à sustentabilidade e ao uso responsável dos recursos compartilhados. Ao reconhecer os padrões de comportamento que levam a esse tipo de tragédia, as sociedades podem adotar medidas para evitar impactos negativos a longo prazo. Ao promover a conscientização e a educação, é possível garantir um futuro saudável e equitativo para todos.
Fonte: YouTube
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'Extracting' market-possibilities is the tragedy. Not the Commons itselve. The tragedy-story was used to make privatisation possible. There is a lot of documentation in `Flanders and other countries that commons had clever regulation against 'overexploitation'. http://bollier.org/blog/eight-points-reference-commoning
Unless the common space was collectively managed and the cows where collectively owned. Also, historical evidence?
I want another cow!
Excellent short overview.
Wow, this is great. Thank you so much for your help!
It isn't based on empirical data , this isn't science tragedy of the commons is a religion
Except this has been proven not to be a real thing. In reality people aren't dumb economic animals and will naturally realize this risk, talk to each other, and collectively manage their resources.
Wow, was doing homework for an ethics class on an article and was completely confused. This video summed it up so efficiently. Thanks!
I wanna know who drew those fuckn cows my god
Just don't eat cows, fish or any other animals.
a big problem with the tragedy of the commons is that it assumes that the open access resource that is called the commons in this thought experiment is completely unregulated and that the users of this land are not in communication. this situation is possible with the prominent example of fishing that is used in this video, but is uncommon to say the least. any regulation or management of the commons would make the tragedy of the commons fall apart.
very obsolete information! Jacque Fresco’s resource based economy is indeed the future coming!
Forster, not Foster.
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Important to note that in the thought experiment the pasture is collectively owned but the cattle are not. Common resources are consumed to feed privately owned capital. The tragedy of capitalism, no?
So we have a problem. What is the solution? If one person decides not to be selfish, someone will take their place.
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The tragedy of the commons is a cool concept and all, but did you ever hear the tragedy of darth plagueis the wise?
Nice article debunking the concept and decrying its author as racist and a eugenecist out now in Scientific American.
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The tradgedy of the commons has been commonly disputed by current reseachers and scholars of human- and political ecology. They mean it is only valid so far as the growth imperative is holding. See for example "tradgedy of the commodity" (Clausen et al. 2015). Commons have been the most common (haha) way of managing land for most of human history. Many of these resources were not depeleted due to strong cultural institutions making measured exploitation a part of cultural hemogeny. See for example "ecologies of the heart" (Andersson 1996) and "rethinking envrionmental history" (Hornborg et al. 2007)
google "the tragedy of the commons debunked"
What a load of shite
41 commies watched this
The tragedy of the commons is bullshit.
https://youtu.be/mQ55wQAyBys
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Hardin's tragedy of the common uses environmental scarcity to justify racial discrimination. We should stop propagating his flawed theory. Just google critique of tragedy of common
This video is too simplistic. The farmers you are referring to are more likely big corporations
more like 1 minute + 30 secs!
GULP
Its wild to me that this neoliberal garbage still makes the rounds in popular discourse to this day. Hardin was a white supremacist who had a specific Malthusian agenda that he used his thought experiment about the commons to promote. Elinor Ostrom, disproved Hardin’s thought experiment in the 90s with empirical evidence through her direct study of actually existing commons. She found that collective management of shared resources are quite common, and are extremely resilient to both economic and ecological forces. They are only every break up through political enclosure by the state. Her work was so well received she won a Nobel prize for it. We have to stop taking debunked bullshit like Hardin’s work seriously.
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Thanks. Great summary !
You sound like Coyote Peterson
The tragedy of the commons is a phenomenon where resources that are commonly owned
and accessible to everyone can be quickly depleted and ultimately become unusable due
to the short-term self-interest of individuals. This was first observed by William Foster
Lloyd in 1833 in the context of common pastures. When individuals act based on their
own self-interest, they consume too many resources, leading to depletion of the resource,
and ultimately causing harm to everyone in the long run. This situation occurs frequently
in modern times, including with fishing grounds and environmental pollution. This tragedy
can be prevented if there is a system of ownership that incentivizes sustainable
exploitation of resources.
https://youtu.be/HG4Y8bgUwQ0
except a fool and his money are soon parted and everyone who has ever existed or ever will exist is a fool, whether they own property or not. this means absolutely no one cares about sustainability because such a thing is impossible.
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