Opinion | The Vaccine Debate Must Include Discussions Of 'The Common Good' | CT News Junkie Columnist Barth Keck asks the critical question about a bill that would give Connecticut's public health commissioner more latitude with vaccine standards: What about the common good?

#PublicHealth #Vaccines #TragedyOfTheCommons
The Vaccine Debate Must Include Discussions Of ‘The Common Good’
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The current vaccine debates – whether involving measles, COVID or, heaven forbid, polio – recall Garret Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons.” In a ...

#AlwaysMoreBullshit

This is the #faith in the USA. "Always more bullshit" #BullshitEverywhere "Bullshit Everywhere"

Donald Trump leads with ignorance, the entire USA population follows with ignorance. People follow Trump's leadership of ignorance. #FWakeTragedyCommon #TragedyOfTheCommons

#RFP31

#RealEconomics #Economics #PoliticalEconomy #Economy #ClassWar #Oligarchy #Technofeudalism #EnclosureofthePublicCommons #TragedyoftheCommons #Austerity #AusterityIsMurder

#Limitarianism

#WealthTax means tax the PRINCIPAL they hoard, not just the income or interest!

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Calvin: If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. Hobbes: How so? Calvin: Well, when you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

"They paved paradise to put up a parking lot..."
Only this time, it's in the sky. #TragedyOfTheCommons

#TragedyOfTheCommons

Ethercast White Lies or Evil? The Morality of Small Things [REM-01] https://ahmadhijazi.substack.com/p/ep-18-the-morality-of-small-things

How 'white' are white lies?
What would Kant say?

#morality #ethics #tragedyofthecommons

Ethercast / Episode 19: White Lies or Evil? The Morality of Small Things [REM-01]

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Anyway, that's my pitch @itvx.com - happy to work up those scripts and work out what the fuck the #Thunderbirds are supposed to do about those societal, #TragedyOfTheCommons type problems!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@pafurijaz/115991659475358114

Digital #TragedyOfTheCommons

Myth: The tragedy of the commons is inevitable - REPAiR project As the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists calls attention to the global diversity, importance, and governance of the world’s rangelands, the myth of the tragedy of the commons is partic...

“Most would agree that the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ thesis is flawed, logically inconsistent, and downright dangerous…

Yet it has taken on a life of its own as an enduring master myth.” - @amberhuff.bsky.social

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#tragedyofthecommons #rangelandmyths #IYRP2026

One Simple Instruction …
… and NO, I did not put that plate there.

#photography #signage #tragedyofthecommons #dirtydishes #coffeecafe #ididnotseethesign
#year2025 #canon7D #carnegiepa #carnegiecoffee

Scrambling To Survive — TIME FILIPINO FISHING FAMILIES CONFRONT THE WORLD’S CHANGING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SEA

“Scrambling To Survive” — Time
 #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise #FisheryDepletion #Mangroves #Adaptation #TragedyOfTheCommons

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Apropos of which, if we consider the non-exclusive #IP rights we all have to the information we collectively have created globally, its abuse by the big #AI players using our data to train its AI models, for their exclusive profit, is reminiscent of that historical crime when powerful […]

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Ist Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt? - Stimmt es, dass ...? | ARTE

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"Der verbreitete Gedanke, dass Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt ist, hat sich fest in den Köpfen der Menschen […]

Speaking for the San Francisco Bay Area, we've got what Sara describes: Cute old bungalows with mature gardens replaced by 'McMansions' taking up 90% of the lot + NIMBYs voting against any housing or transit for service workers needed = gridlock.
#TragedyOfTheCommons late capitalist edition?

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Morning, all,

#CERN and Tim Berners-Lee gave the #WWW to the world for free, to encourage and enable co-operation.

And yet private capital has, to a large extent, hijacked it. It's the #TragedyOfTheCommons all over again...

Worse still, an evil mastermind, Al GorIthms, is using it to addict […]

...BEHOLD....the "Preppers".....
#TragedyOfTheCommons #GiveThemaBase #NoKing

....LLM Gemini Knows....
#TragedyOfTheCommons #NoReptileKing

This looks so neat, Professor Nordman! I have an Elinor Ostrom book, but having an expert such as yourself unpack all of her incredible life's work would be very helpful.

I brought her book to an awesome park this summer, which was super appropriate 👍

#tragedyofthecommons

Magnus Heunicke så i nat modvillige lande i øjnene, da håb om plastikaftale brød sammen: 'Det er tragisk at være vidne til' Heller ikke denne gang lykkedes det verdens lande at blive enige om en aftale, der skal gøre noget ved de enorme problemer med plastikforurening.

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#tragedyofthecommons #fælledenstragedie

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

www.propublica.org/article/wate... #aquifers #climatechange #continentaldrying #evaporation #groundwater #groundwatermining #groundwaterloss #jayfamiglietti #lossofwater #ocean #precipitation #sanjoaquinvalley #sealevelrise #subsidence #tragedyofthecommons #waterscarcity

Tragedy of the Commons, Real Examples - Population Education It’s been a few years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic back in 2020. While the... Read more »

💥 The Tragedy of the Commons is happening every day around us. This blog delves into 5 real-world examples, from panic buying to groundwater depletion, where individual actions affect shared resources and what we can do about it.
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#EnvironmentalEd #TragedyOfTheCommons

Does having children make people #racist ? Private, #multicultural #schools ensure the #parents give a damn. Not just #status #generationalwealth #tragedyofthecommons #propertyvalue #property #gatedcommunity

#AttractionToFiction #AttractionToDonaldTrump

#WeThePeopleWorld we the people attraction to #liars deceivers is our #TragedyOfTheCommons #CommonGround attraction to bullshit.

That's what they want - then the for profit companies like Accuweather can take a cut of the people's money. #TragedyOfTheCommons

#MediaEcologyStandingUp #Busking
#PublicSpaces #TragedyOfTheCommons
#RCC1806E #FWakeBusking #FWakeTragedyCommon

High-traffic mall places "people need to earn money" rent-free. Selling food, selling products, selling music.

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„Verbraucher, das ist ihre Hoffnung, könnten dann bewusst ein Produkt kaufen, das nachhaltig produziert ist – dafür aber auch teurer wäre.“
Ain’t gonna happen. Hier kommt die Marktwirtschaft an ihre Grenzen. #TragedyOfTheCommons

Minnesota’s boundary waters are pristine. Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could pollute them forever A little-known provision would open thousands of nearby acres to a foreign mining company, risking acid drainage

public lands giveaway for the benefit of a foreign-owned mining corporation, land near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters national wilderness

alienation of a public good, in perpetuity to a Chilean company

#envhist #tragedyoftheCommons #industrialleaching #acidrain

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It’s the #TragedyoftheCommons all over again. It’s like a law of #physics. helpfulprofessor.com/tragedy-of-t...

Because it only matters when it's happening to their OWN kids. #tragedyofthecommons