• LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Yes. Stealing. From the taxpayers that maintain that forest. From the public who owns the property.

    Stealing is exactly right. Because while everyone can breathe air, there isn’t enough of that forest to go around if everyone lived like this.

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          5 months ago

          No it’s not.

          The tragedy of the commons is when too many people use a public resource in a way that is unsustainable. For example, air is not privatized but air pollution impacts everyone who checks notes uses air.

          That’s not to say there aren’t solutions to the Tragedy of the Commons problem and resources cannot be made publicly available, but systems need to be created to manage common resources.