The tragedy of the commons - agricultural soils and water resources within the United States of America, Russian Federation and Poland
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2008
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1689-8052
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Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
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Much of the world’s population considers the earth’s natural resources,
which include the air, water and soil, as if they are free to use. This often
results in the attitude that they are to a large extent unlimited or at least
they do not need to worry about their immediate supply. These are often
referred to as the ‘commons’, resources that are shared by people or
groups of people. Hardin in 1968 discussed this topic and points out that
the commons can be abused in at least two ways; we can take too much
out of the common good for example people grazing too many animals
on public pastures or by adding more pollutants to a common than the
common can recycle i.e. too many chemicals to the air or water. Much
of the world’s population has grown up in lands where the natural resources were very large in proportion to the population and thus got use
to the concept of the ecosystem recycling and disposing of the pollutants.
In some countries the demands of time and energy just for existence
is so great that the people have no time to worry about the diminishing
quality and capacity of the natural resources base to absorb the abuse
and renew itself, resulting in abuse of the commons
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Studia Prawnicze. Rozprawy i materiały 2008, nr 1, s. 116-135.