Although the EPA restrictions impacted public infrastructure the current root cause of poor air quality in Fbks isn’t highways or inversions. The root cause is individual people who don’t care about their neighbors’ and their own health. Over the years Fairbanks has stopped functioning as a community and been replaced by clusters of selfish islands. EPA can’t fix that. #TragedyOfTheCommons #sorry https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/01/07/epa-plans-to-lift-air-pollution-sanctions-that-paused-fairbanks-construction-projects/?emci=e85fee1c-6fcd-ef11-88d0-0022482a9d92&emdi=4bce624f-d1cd-ef11-88d0-0022482a9d92&ceid=571388

Why humanity continously fails to address climate change, from a game theory perspective.

Source: https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/sustainability/sustainability-04-01776/article_deploy/sustainability-04-01776.pdf?version=1424776899

@Radical_EgoCom Moreover, extreme capitalists in the US turn the environment into a #TragedyOfTheCommons by dumping a disproportional amount of carbon into the atmosphere with their #SuperYachts #PrivateJets and only pay a max 37% in taxes.

The #TragedyOfTheCommons is commons-holders getting strongarmed or conned into letting a stranger steal the commons.

Something I noticed when I lived in #Singapore was that some things are heavily subsidized to the point of being essentially free, but almost nothing is ever *entirely* free. MRT and bus fares, for example, are very cheap. An hour-long, cross-island trip across 20+ stops on the MRT metro costs SGD $2.13 today, or about USD $1.50 (even less for students or people with various concession passes). Last time I was there, this practice of charging some tiny amount for something that is basically free is used pretty often. Basic medicine is free under a socialized healthcare system, but everyone is charged a couple of bucks per prescription anyway.

I suspect this is a psychological trick to prevent a #tragedyOfTheCommons. The perceived difference between $0 and $1 is HUGE, because the latter is no longer “free”, and therefore scarce. Charging even a tiny amount probably helps to prevent systemic abuse.

The argument that small jurisdictions shouldn't enact expensive measures to combat climate change because their contributions to the global pollution load are so small they'll have little to no effect, has just been struck a blow by a court in Montana. I wrote about what that means for the #TragedyOfTheCommons, especially as it relates to #ClimateChange, the #environment, and #Canada

https://open.substack.com/pub/inksmudge/p/a-victory-for-the-fight-against-climate?r=1r23uw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Reminder that the "#TragedyOfTheCommons" is an ahistorical capitalist just-so story. It never had any basis in fact.
https://ecology.iww.org/texts/IanAngus/The%20Myth%20of%20the%20Tragedy%20of%20the%20Commons

In hindsight, "shitpostery" was a better word than "shitposting," but we killed it dead like the dodo and now here we are, living in a slightly less colorful world. #TragedyOfTheCommons #shitpostitude #TheyCantTakeThatAwayFromMe

In the mid-1990s (much longer ago than I always feel it should be) I was taught that the Tragedy of the commons was largely based on a misreading and an over-simplification and that Elinor Ostrom's work was much more important, and yet somehow it persists.

A good overview thread:

#TragedyOfTheCommons

https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/109449321659418326

There is no such thing as the tragedy of the commons: a thread.

The oldest published reference to the idea is in a lecture by an early political economist at Oxford, William Foster Lloyd, in 1832 titled "On the Checks to Population." Lloyd first articulated the argument that many of us have been taught as an inevitable and immutable fact of economic life: that any resource owned in common will be exploited to the point of ruin.

"Why are the cattle on a common so puny and stunted? Why is the common itself so hare-worn, and cropped so differently from the adjoining inclosures? No inequality, in respect of natural or acquired fertility, will account for the phenomenon."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1972412

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