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Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

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Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)
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More than half a century has passed since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in Science in 1968. In that influential article, he argued that human greed and short-term thinking would drive societies toward collapse. Hardin illustrated his argument with the well-known example of herders sharing a pasture: each herder would receive all the income from adding another animal, while the cost of consuming the grass would be shared by all. The path toward pasture depletion was therefor

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