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Todd Suomela

Quilligan's "Failed Metaphysics Behind Private Property" | David Bollier - 1 views

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    "Many people don't recognise that the commons is not just a thing - a physical element of nature or a resource like the Internet - but a distinct metaphysics and epistemology that challenges some deeply rooted premises of contemporary politics and policy. James Quilligan probes this territory with a thoughtful piece in the latest issue of Kosmos magazine. In particular, he explores the "social nature of property"and how its individual, atomistic nature in liberal political philosophy is responsible for "its catastrophic impact on the commons.""
Todd Suomela

OnTheCommons.org » Private Property and the Power of Magical Thinking - 0 views

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    All the talk about rights-based fishing and IFQs is a red herring that throws all of us off the track of what is important. IFQs do not work because they are rights, or because they are property rights…. IFQs work because they involve an assigned catch, as opposed to having catch be determined competitively. (Vermont Law Review, Spring 2004, p. 659) It is apparently irresistible for people, even trained scientists, to misunderstand ITQs as a triumph of the market and privatization. ITQs play into the grand narrative that private property rights promote good stewardship of a resource. Remember the so-called "tragedy of the commons" story? That parable holds that if you give people private property rights in the commons - if only your privatize the collective resource! - people won't over-exploit it. "Tragedy" can be averted. The mythology insists that the commons can be responsibly managed only if it is duly privatized.
Todd Suomela

Commons Law Project - 0 views

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    "If Planet Earth is to survive in the coming decades as we know it, we must find new ways to protect our planet from the unsustainable growth imperatives of neoliberal economics and politics. This will require a new architecture of "green governance"―laws, public policies, and social practices that can honor human rights and commons-based management of natural resources large and small"
Todd Suomela

War and the Tragedy of the Commons | Truthout - 0 views

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    "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."
Fredric Markus

Protected classes: sexuality - 9 views

Fredric Markus wrote: > Now we are blessed - and cursed - with great change in these matters. The academic world has come around to an understanding that situational understandings of "normal" are...

Fredric Markus

The beauty of locality is in the eye of the beholder. - 11 views

Plunging right in to the relative merits of local production: When the City of Minneapolis was keen to clearcut everything on Nicollet Island at the end of the 1960s, we Islanders were an inventi...

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