Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • Tragedy of the Commons

  • Ideas & Concepts
  • By: iMinds
  • Narrated by: Luca James Lee
  • Length: 7 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.
Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Tragedy of the Commons

By: iMinds
Narrated by: Luca James Lee
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £1.99

Buy Now for £1.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Learn about the Tragedy of the Commons with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.The Tragedy of the Commons is a situation in which a jointly-owned resource is overused or destroyed because each person takes more than they would if the resource was privately owned. With each individual acting independently, the combined pressure on the resource exceeds what is in the interests of the community as a whole. The term was coined in 1967 by Garrett Hardin, a biologist from the University of California, in a famous article in the journal Science.

According to Hardin, there are some kinds of problems which society cannot resolve through technology, but which instead require a wholesale change in morality and behavior - what we might now call a cultural shift. Hardin used the example of global population growth, which he felt would eventually threaten our ability to survive as a species by placing too much pressure on the environment. Regardless of how advanced our technologies become, unrestrained population growth will ultimately result in widespread shortages of basic economic resources like land and water. Hardin’s insight has since been applied to many kinds of environmental problems, including over-fishing, over-irrigation, and pollution.

Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

iMinds offers 12 main categories; become a Generalist by increasing your knowledge of Business, Politics, People, History, Pop Culture, Mystery, Crime, Culture, Religion, Concepts, Science and Sport. Clean and concise, crisp and engaging, discover what you never knew you were missing.

iMinds is the knowledge solution for the information age cutting through the white noise to give you quick, accurate knowledge .. Perfect your dinner party conversation, impress your boss - an excellent way to discover topics of interest for the future.

©2009 iMinds Pty Ltd (P)2009 iMinds Pty Ltd
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Where Are We Heading? cover art
Peak Everything cover art
Climate Matters cover art
Nature's Fortune cover art
Ecocide cover art
Economics in Two Lessons cover art
A Blue New Deal cover art
The Agrarian Vision cover art
Reason in a Dark Time cover art
Think like a Commoner cover art
A Better Planet cover art
Brighter cover art
Sustainability cover art
Dark Age America cover art
Development cover art
The Plundered Planet cover art

Editor reviews

A busy person who seeks a broader cultural literacy would do well to check out iMinds’ series of ultra-short introductions to some of the scientific and historical issues all informed citizens should know. At under 10 minutes each, iMinds’ audiobooks are perfect for a commute or a walk on the treadmill.

In this instalment, narrator Luca James Lee dives into "The Tragedy of the Commons", a celebrated theory by economist Garrett Hardin. Using the problem of overgrazing livestock and unchecked human population growth, Hardin asked what problems could not be solved by technology and could only be solved by the much trickier task of moral and civic change. At once a mind-bender and an astute analysis, "The Tragedy of the Commons" is an irrefutably important idea.

Critic reviews

"I'm learning all sorts of stuff about stuff I didn't even know I didn't know. And it sticks. In a nutshell: wonderful." (Jonathon Margolis, Financial Times)

What listeners say about Tragedy of the Commons

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 0 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 0 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.