In his 1968 article 'The Tragedy of the Commons', the science professor Garrett Hardin used the word "tragedy" as Aristotle did:
'to refer to a dramatic outcome that is the inevitable but unplanned result of a character's actions. He called the destruction of the commons through overuse a tragedy not because it is sad, but because it is the inevitable result of shared use of the pasture. "Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all."'
Ian Angus argues that the evidence for this simply isn't there. (HT: Arts and Letters)
The US is leaving the Paris Agreement – what happens next?
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The world’s largest economy and second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases
will withdraw from the global climate pact, disrupting efforts to tackle
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