SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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when humans overuse a natural resource
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when the short-term, positive effects go to the individual, while the long-term, negative effects are spread out to the group
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when humans act selfishly, thinking of the own interest
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when plants and animals compete for space, resources, and/or food
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Detailed explanation-1: -What Is the Tragedy of the Commons? The tragedy of the commons refers to a situation in which individuals with access to a public resource (also called a common) act in their own interest and, in doing so, ultimately deplete the resource.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ‘tragedy of the commons’ refers to the situation when individuals, acting rationally in their own self-interest, nonetheless act irrationally as a collective group by irreparably depleting a resource that is owned in common. The current climate change crisis is an example of ‘the tragedy’ on a global scale.
Detailed explanation-3: -In economics, the Tragedy of the Commons is a scenario in game theory. It’s a situation where a commonly shared resource is over-exploited because the users of the resource do not have a private incentive to maintain it. But, if nobody maintains the resource, everyone is made worse off than if it had been maintained.
Detailed explanation-4: -First posited in 1968 by American ecologist Garret Hardin, the Tragedy of the Commons describes a situation where shared environmental resources are overused and exploited, and eventually depleted, posing risks to everyone involved.