Stone Soup
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"Stone Soup" is a European folk story in which hungry strangers convince the people of a town to each share a small amount of their food in order to make a meal. In varying traditions, the stone has b
In the folk story, a pot that initially contains only a stone has other ingredients added to it.
Tragedy of the commons
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The tragedy of the commons is the idea that when a resource is shared and can benefit the individual at a cost to the community, it is rational for the individual to overuse the resource, even though
Stone Soup
…Allegory of the long spoons – Parable about heaven and hell Tragedy of the commons – Overuse of a shared resource, the inverse of the Stone Soup story Purple hat therapy…
Industrial pollution is one of the consequences of operators ignoring their effect on the shared environment.
Cows on Selsley Common, England. Lloyd used shared grazing of common land as an illustration of where abuse of rights could occur.
Effect of over grazing
Clearing rainforest for agriculture in southern Mexico