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This paper focuses on a quite different situation: the role of common forests in an industrialized country. The Swedish common forests have survived for more than one hundred years; no deforestation has been observed and the total amount of biomass is increasing.

it means not only a radically different structure of the economy, but a change in who runs American industry. And this is what the current political order is fighting to the death.

More political than commons related, but connected to the question of energy and resource usage and power.

The industry training had left not a single gram of salt in my body. I was itching to get into the metro so that I could take refuge from the sun's appalling heat. Metro came on time but was loaded with people as if it wasn't a metro but DTC bus of Delhi.

"In this seven-part series of articles on each environmental impact of US militarism, scientist and author Patricia Hynes provides an overview of modern, military pollution and the use of natural resources with a central focus on the US military superpower, a power without precedent or competitor. From Superfund and former nuclear weapons sites in the US to Vieques, Agent Orange, depleted uranium - particularly in Iraq - biowarfare research and the use of fossil fuels in routine military training and wars, Hynes examines the war machine as the true tragedy of the commons."