The "Commons" Hardin Talks About in "The Tragedy of the Commons

question 3

Multiple Choice

The "commons" Hardin talks about in "The Tragedy of the Commons" is

• A) the student union in his university, where all students congregate but there is little interaction across racial and ethnic lines, hence the "tragedy".
• B) the many public executions and lynchings that took place in town squares during the era of Jim Crow (between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement).
• C) almost anything that can be ruined by individuals pursuing their own self interest, heedless of the costs this has on the things we all share or have "in common".
• D) the land available to everyone in pre-Industrial England where wood could be gathered and animals could be grazed-land that was taken away by rich and powerful elites, hence the "tragedy".

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