Tragedy of the commons explains resource depletion when individual interests overshadow collective needs. Exploitation examples include Amazon deforestation and fast fashion harming global ecosystems.

Fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories abound. If you want to understand the crazy, mixed-up, 21st century information ecosystem, think about it as what is called a “tragedy of the commons.

Humanity needs to start addressing the growing space junk problem now, before it gets out of hand, scientists stress. Earth orbit is getting more and more crowded, with both active satellites and ...

One phrase that doesn’t seem to be used enough in the context of the COP26 summit and climate change is “the tragedy of the commons” (30 October, p 8). This describes a scenario that is a standard ...

First principles of thermodynamics imply that metabolic pathways are faced with a trade-off between the rate and yield of ATP production. Simple evolutionary models argue that this trade-off generates ...

At the risk of sounding Chicken Little-like, we hypothesize that the Internet is heading toward a “tragedy of the commons”. The tragedy of the commons plays out when a collective system is destroyed ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Fifty years ago, in December, 1968, Garrett ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! MARCH 3, 2005 Digital Future: Copyright Issues Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder ...