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The real tragedy is the enclosure of common land | blogjou

Ben Rawlence

The Treeline

p. 17
14 Nov 2023

The real tragedy is the enclosure of common land


The so-called tragedy of the commons (that humans cannot be trusted to manage a common resource sensibly) might be a problem for individualistic societies unable to restrain pollution and over-exploitation, but as a histrocial explanatio for the British landscape it doesn’t hold except perhaps as a retrospective ideological justification for the real tragedy to follow: the enclosure of common land.