The Tragedy of the Commons

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Since it was introduced in the 60s, the Tragedy of the Commons, the idea that humans will inevitably ruin any resource we all share, has had sweeping effects on government and public attitudes on who owns the environment. Problem is, it was fictitious.

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0:32.9	Hey everybody, Chuck and Josh here, and I was recently a guest once again on one of my favorite
0:37.6	podcast is called The Puzzler with old pal and friend of the show A.J. Jacobs.
0:41.6	AJ gives really fun and funny word puzzles to guess like me, like Ken Jennings, like
0:46.0	Jack Shepard, and hopefully like Josh because he would be so great on this show.
0:49.5	Yeah, it's definitely on my to-do list.
0:52.2	Oh, you got to be honest. It's a lot of fun. It's sort of like wordle or connections, but for your ears.
0:56.4	And I think we should play everyone just a little clip.
0:58.5	It's a puzzle that I have to convert movie titles from the metric system back to their actual title.
1:03.8	Oh, wow.
1:04.4	From my second appearance on the puzzler right now.
1:07.2	Nice.
1:07.7	All right. So I'm going to give you a title of a movie, and you have to reconvert it to the imperial system.
1:15.9	All right.
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