Tuesday, July 19, 2022
The road to the end
In law, people talk about the "problem of the commons." In short, it means that if a resource is commonly available to all, people will maximize their own gain to the detriment of the whole-- they will exhaust the resource. Sometimes, this was described in terms of a town that share grazing land. To make it work long-term, no one person could over-graze it.
The Earth is the ultimate problem of the commons. Few nations are willing to give away they advantages they gain by creating climate change, so it there is destruction of the resource. 100 degrees in England? Get used to it. No water in Lake Powell? Well... we could have seen that coming.
And there seems to be no real leadership to resolve the problem.
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I feel your pain on today's post. The news is depressing, and people like Manchin and H. Walker make me scream at the TV and newspaper. But there's also hope, which is why we keep working for change. I've been sitting in a conservation biology conference all week and there's a lot going on with many folks working on the issues of commons, climate change, and conservation.
Time to head to a presentation on the genomics of the endangered Kerner Blue Butterfly -- life in the fast lane!
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Time to head to a presentation on the genomics of the endangered Kerner Blue Butterfly -- life in the fast lane!
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