Showing posts with label Commons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commons. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2014

Why we can't have nice things---"Disaster Assistance to New England fisherman edition"

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Why we can't have nice things---"Disaster Assistance Edition". Below are two articles on the same topic---Federal disaste...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

How do we keep the elephant from becoming extinct? Easy! Let people shoot them, eat them and sell the ivory. Get over your squimishness. The elephants NEED you to support this!!

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Below is a graphic (HT: Carpe Diem ) comparing the elephant population of Kenya and Zimbabwe from 1970 to 2011.  You can see they run counte...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

Tragedy of the Fishy's Part 2---Nice map showing the depletion of major North Atlantic fishing grounds...We can stop trying to Find Nemo now. He is gone...

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Not exactly sure how they got the data from 1900 to make this map....but there is no question that the major fishing areas of the North Atla...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

The US loses more ground in a measure of Economic Freedom--From Free to Mostly Free...I don't like the sound of that..

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 The Heritage Foundation  A highly regarded survey of economic freedom shows the US losing ground in economic freedom, by their metric...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Step right up and get your Lion tacos! What? Hmm...Maybe this is the BEST thing that has happened to them as a species.

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Is this the BEST thing that could happen to Lions as a species?  Apply what you know about " The Tragedy of the Commons " and priv...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

If you shovel snow from a public parking space, can you "save" that space for yourself? Show your work for full credit...

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Interesting how circumstances can change the way people think about public property.  Just because someone shoveled a space they feel entit...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

A common tragedy has been avoided in Mexico---they CAN see the forest for the trees!! And that is a good thing...

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Granting ownership of a resource to the people most vested in seeing it used efficiently will enhance the sustainability of that resource fo...
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