Humans tend to take their resources for advantage and use them only to the benefit of themselves; which more times than not, leads to the depletion or extinction of said resource. Dr.Seuss’ The Lorax is a great fictional example of this issue. A non-fictional example would be Easter Island. In both cases, humans have completely exhausted at least one resource becausethey’ve used it to benefit their own lives. These resources have been used up solely because humans are only in it for themselves, they are either oblivious to what they’re doing or they refuse to believe it’s harmful, and if humans do realize that what they’re doing is harmful, the only solution requires them to sacrifice something important to them; which is unlikely to happen given the
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Humans are also negligent and oblivious to what they do that harmfully affects the environment. For instance, in The Lorax, the Once-ler claims to only doing good and neglects the fact that he’s tearing down an entire forest simply because he believes that because it is just him, how much damage could he really do? There were so many trees, how could “cutting down a few” reallly damage anything? That is the true tragedy of the commons as described by Garrett Hardin. The islanders of Easter Island, on the other hand, were completely oblivious. “The island’s population was too small, too primitive and too isolated.”(Trachtman, Paul. “The Secrets of Easter Island.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Mar. 2002, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-secrets-of-easter-island-59989046/.) They did not realize how their actions had affected the environment until it was too late. Although they were able to create incredible pieces of art, that doesn’t distract from the fact that they were left
Humans are also negligent and oblivious to what they do that harmfully affects the environment. For instance, in The Lorax, the Once-ler claims to only doing good and neglects the fact that he’s tearing down an entire forest simply because he believes that because it is just him, how much damage could he really do? There were so many trees, how could “cutting down a few” reallly damage anything? That is the true tragedy of the commons as described by Garrett Hardin. The islanders of Easter Island, on the other hand, were completely oblivious. “The island’s population was too small, too primitive and too isolated.”(Trachtman, Paul. “The Secrets of Easter Island.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Mar. 2002, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-secrets-of-easter-island-59989046/.) They did not realize how their actions had affected the environment until it was too late. Although they were able to create incredible pieces of art, that doesn’t distract from the fact that they were left