What does Garret Hardin’s essay The Tragedy of the Commons have to tell us about resource use?

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Commons

What does Garret Hardin’s essay The Tragedy of the Commons have to tell us about resource use? What is a commons? Can you think of two examples of a commons not listed in the textbook? Based on your reading of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969,(NEPA) can you think of alternative solutions to the dilemma describe in The Tragedy of the Commons? (Look carefully at the language used in the Purpose and Sec. 101 in the NEPA.)

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Environmental Discourse

List three varieties of environment discourse in the United States. What are the major assumptions that define each variety of discourse and to what do they turn to solve environmental problems? Identify an environmental problem and explain how one of the three groups might resolve it?