{"id":2064,"date":"2012-10-16T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2014-10-06T07:12:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:12:27","slug":"fresh-thinking-for-the-tragedy-of-the-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/fresh-thinking-for-the-tragedy-of-the-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Thinking for The Tragedy of the Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long Systems Thinking World discussion, started by Helene Finidori, to respond to UN Chairman Ban ki-moon’s\u00a0<\/em>Call for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival… How to make this happen?<\/a>\u00a0. produced a great many complex and well reasoned views, 7800 of them! From that extensive collection she has evolved her sense of the group’s thinking in her <\/em>Systems Thinking and ‘Commons-Sense’ <\/a>and other interesting products in the works and from others too.<\/p>\n

Recently\u00a0Horst G Ludwig said in effect, it’s all just impossible. \u00a0He said it in a way, from really understanding the self-conflicts within most solutions, that prompted this rather clear\u00a0statement\u00a0of one of the exceptions we’ve been discussing, that others commented on liking a lot.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Horst \u2013 I think you\u2019re missing some of the options, to say \u201cAs long as UN seeks to save the monetarian-economic system nothing can be done.<\/em>\u201d \u00a0\u00a0What I\u2019d agree with you on is that \u201cThe problem is that we are living in idiocratic worlds\u2026\u201d. \u00a0 Living by ideologies not connected to reality is clearly a failure of ideas, but it does not mean that no fresh thinking is possible.<\/p>\n

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Over-investing in the commons till it’s\u00a0barren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At least one alternate way to end the destructive use of money that exploits people and the earth seems to take only fresh thinking.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, the tragedy of the commons is that the commons can\u2019t remain bountiful if you over-invest in exploiting it, like using your cattle to multiply the cattle grazing on the village green, in the example Harding gave.<\/p>\n

So, for our earth as a commons to remain profitable for investment, something needs to limit the growth of the investments for exploiting it.\u00a0 It would protect both the value of the investments and the value work, by forestalling an otherwise inevitable tragedy of our ever growing \u2018husbandry\u2019 of investments grazing on \u201cthe commons\u201d till it\u2019s barren.<\/p>\n

A little fresh thinking also seems to offer reasonable and practical ways to do it.\u00a0\u00a0 One is to use policy to require investment funds to change business models when the total level of investment in the commons is putting strains on the commons.\u00a0\u00a0 A practical way to do that financially is to regulate investment funds as endowments.\u00a0 That would require them to increasingly use their proceeds for relieving the strains on the commons till they are reversed.\u00a0 The \u201cthermostat\u201d feature of that approach provides a self-regulation mechanism, for establishing a new financial commons.\u00a0 It\u2019s done *not<\/strong>* by changing the nature of money but by a change in our idea of what money is for, that would be profitable for all.<\/p>\n

It would interrupt the boundless \u201cinvestment husbandry\u201d by calling on investors to devote their earnings to caring for the commons, from which they are earning.\u00a0 That would be instead using their earnings to keep multiply their investments and \u00a0burdens on the commons, till the commons is so over-stressed that the earth and our lives become barren and generate no profit.<\/p>\n

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JLH<\/p>\n

Try searching the web<\/a><\/span><\/strong> or searching on Synapse9<\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/span>for\u00a0other mentions of “the commons” or”commons sense”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The long Systems Thinking World discussion, started by Helene Finidori, to respond to UN Chairman Ban ki-moon’s\u00a0Call for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival… How to make this happen?\u00a0. produced a great many complex and well reasoned views, 7800 of them! From that extensive collection she has evolved her sense … Continue reading Fresh Thinking for The Tragedy of the Commons<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-among-best-2","category-mail","category-econn","category-whattodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}