Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons 2) The Tragedy of the Commons is an economics theory by Garrett Hardin‚ which he believes that the depletion of a shared resource by individuals‚ acting independently and rationally according to each person’s self-interest‚ will affect the group’s long-term interests by depleting what is known as the common resource. This article has evoked a lot of strong emotions in myself mostly fear due to what basically Hardin is telling us is the past affects the future
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population. There are too few people living in an area to use resources to their full potential. An example of an underpopulated country would be Canada. It does not consume too many resources and has few inhabitants in comparison with its size. b) Overpopulation is the state of a country‚ which has exceeded the number of inhabitants it can sustain (optimum population). In overpopulated countries‚ resources are used unsustainably. For example‚ if everyone lived how the average North American‚ we would
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Population control is a practice used to control the number of people that inhabit the earth; altering the rate of growth. Generally implemented due to: ◦ Increased poverty levels ◦ Religious reasons ◦ Environmental concerns ◦ Overpopulation Natural forms of control: ◦ Economic ◦ Environmental ◦ Social How do countries control population growth and why? • China – One Child Policy • India‚ Iran‚ & Singapore – Government sponsored family planning programs • United
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been a J-shaped growth. This can also be expressed as an exponential growth. A big question that can only be answered in time is how this population growth will slow down or stop. The planet can only handle so many humans before the effects of overpopulation send the environment into an unrecoverable tailspin of degradation. “The human population reached 6.1 billion in 2000. The United Nations projects that world population for the year 2050 could range from 7.9 billion to 10.9 billion‚ depending
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dowry and women repression‚ lack of proper distribution of wealth‚ divorce‚ mental illness‚ mentally disability problem‚ lack of security‚ drug addition‚ lack of sound health‚ etc. we will briefly discuss these problems. 1) Population problems Overpopulation is not simply a function of the number or density o the individuals but rather the number of individuals compared to the resources (i.e. food production ) they need to survive. In other words‚ it is the ratio of population divided by resources
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living conditions for many based upon water resource depletion‚ discharge of raw sewage and solid waste disposal. 11) Elevated crime rate due to drug cartels and increased theft by people stealing resources to survive. I strongly believe that overpopulation is very bad for a country that is struggling to become a
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more than 6 billion. The human population grow sharply since the end of the black plague in 1300s. Various censuses have projected that in the next 30 years the population will go up by more than 3 billion. No matter it concluded the outcome of overpopulation is a disputed subject or note‚ but it is a fact that more cities will continue to grow‚ waste and pollution will be on the rise‚ and natural resources will continue to be depleted. Example of Effecting Factor Here is an example of
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sasedfxPopulation Growth and Economic Development Population Growth and Economic Development ople . The world’s population surpassed 6 billion threshold in the late twentieth century ‚ reaching 6‚616 billion in 2007 . In just 12 years ‚ world population has increased by 1 billion ( from 1987-1999 ) ‚ is the shortest period in human history to add 1 billion people and 1 billion in the next 13 years will be achieved . World welcomes 7 billion citizens on 31/10/2011 past . A number of UN study
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Reconsider Lifeboat Ethics In his article “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor‚” Garret Hardin argues that rich nations should not help poor nations by providing limited resources. He presents that the rich nations are morally obligated to protect their limited because sharing will only lead to catastrophe‚ squander and overloading the environment. He claims that poor nations should learn from the “hard way” independently and control the population by the crude way if they want to
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“ANTI-RH BILL AKO! THAT’S WHY I SAY LIFE IS SIMPLER THEN” Surely‚ the proposed law spreads around nice words such as responsibility‚ healthcare‚ freedom‚ choice‚ development‚ rights‚ equality‚ couples‚ etc. Yet‚ it is nothing but an attempt to remove God from our government and society. When I told a friend that lines‚ he answered: “grabe naman kasi kayo‚ masyado kayong overreacting‚ masyado nyong ginagawang literal ang mga sciptures. sa sobrang pagkaliteral‚ yung mga sentiments na rinerelease nila
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