Against Enclosure: Garrett Hardin's "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a House Built on Sand

So, yesterday, I made the tremendous sacrifice of reading “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin, so you don’t have to. Hardin is not the canny thinker that they believe he is, and reading the original “Tragedy of the Commons” article he published in Science on 13 December 1968 shows just how flawed his reasoning is – and how bankrupt future ideological edifices built atop it are.

Analysis, Political, Written by: CameronCameron SummersOctober 7, 2019The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin, Essentialism, eco-fascism, racism, malthusian thinking, classism, ExterminismComment