{"id":1740,"date":"2019-02-15T10:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=1740"},"modified":"2019-02-15T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:59:11","slug":"tragedy-of-the-commons","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/glossary\/tragedy-of-the-commons","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy of the Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>tragedy of the commons<\/b> is a term used in <a title=\"Social science\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_science\">social science<\/a> to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action. The concept and phrase originated in an essay written in 1833 by the British economist <a title=\"William Forster Lloyd\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Forster_Lloyd\">William Forster Lloyd<\/a>, who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on <a title=\"Common land\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_land\">common land<\/a> (also known as a &#8220;common&#8221;) in <a title=\"Great Britain\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Britain\">Great Britain<\/a> and <a title=\"Ireland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\">Ireland<\/a>. The concept became widely known over a century later due to an article written by the American ecologist and philosopher <a title=\"Garrett Hardin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garrett_Hardin\">Garrett Hardin<\/a> in 1968. In this modern economic context, <a title=\"Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commons\">commons<\/a> is taken to mean any shared and unregulated resource such as <a title=\"Carbon dioxide\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_dioxide#In_the_Earth's_atmosphere\">atmosphere<\/a>, <a title=\"Great Pacific garbage patch\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch\">oceans<\/a>, <a title=\"River\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River\">rivers<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Fish stocks\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fish_stocks\">fish stocks<\/a>, or even an office refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tragedy_of_the_commons for more<\/p>\n<div style=text-align:right;><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/glossary\/tragedy-of-the-commons\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"glossary-cat":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":"","slider":"","featured":"","small-featured":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action. The concept and phrase originated in an essay written in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd, who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on common land (also known as a &#8220;common&#8221;) in Great Britain and Ireland. 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