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Garrett James Hardin

The Tragedy of the Commons

Garrett James HardinNonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968

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Essay Topics

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Describe how a small annual increase in a human population can lead to exponential growth in that population.

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What process limits the populations of plants and animals in the natural world? How do humans get around that limitation?

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Explain how individuals using an unregulated common resource can gradually overuse that resource until it collapses.

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