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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Ethical Obligations in a Tragedy of the Commons
Beteiligte:
Johnson, Baylor L.
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2003
Erschienen in:
Environmental Values, 12 (2003) 3, Seite 271-287
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.3197/096327103129341324
ISSN:
0963-2719;
1752-7015
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Beschreibung:
When people use a resource without a co-ordinated plan the result is often a tragedy of the commons in which the resource is depleted. Many environmental resources display the characteristics of a developing tragedy of the commons. Many believe that each person is ethically obligated to reduce use of the commons to the sustainable level. I argue that this is mistaken. In a tragedy of the commons there is no reasonable expectation that individual, voluntary action will succeed. Our obligation is not fruitlessly to reduce individual use, but to support a collective agreement to reduce everyone's use to the sustainable level.