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@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
2026-01-24 08:58:11

Looking at "THE PARCHED EARTH OF COOPERATION: HOW
TO SOLVE THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS IN
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
GOVERNANCE", thinking:
Too bad we have no world governance really, so regulation does not work out. The second approach, privatization, actually *caused* a lot of tragedy-of-the-commons issues; see wastewater, climate change, labor exploitation, inflation, shortages, wealth distribution and all the corresponding collateral damage (non-exhausti…

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-03-21 08:49:31

RE: kolektiva.social/@Hex/11626154
The idea behind this comes from the intro to Ostrom's Governing the Commons. She points out that the Tragedy of the Commons happens when actors can be modeled as prisoners with no coordination. By increasing communication, we can create opportunities to shift away from the tragedy. Today, the climate crisis is very much a grand Tragedy of the Commons problem. A solution would be to build a (bottom up) coordinated carbon budget, and a community like described could be a low effort first step towards that.