What Climate Activist Christina Figueres says to promote COP 27: "If we keep abusing Nature, it will collapse taking us with it. We need a new mindset. For the last 50 years an ill fated paradigm has shaped Western Thought and Action and that ill fated paradigm is The book by Garret Hardin, "The Tragedy Of The Commons" Where we humans operate according to our own self interest that depletes our shared resources. What we see in the climate change tragedy of our time is that the climate change tragedy of our time is a creation of The Tragedy of the Commons. CRITICAL COMMENTARY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTALISM OF GARRETT HARDIN BY PROFESSOR MATTO MILDENBERGER, UC SANTA BARBARA Hardin saw all humans as selfish herders: we worry that our neighbors’ cattle will graze the best grass. So, we send more of our cows out to consume that grass first. We take it first, before someone else steals our share. This creates a vicious cycle of environmental degradation that Hardin described as the “tragedy of the commons.”, i.e., competition among humans for nature’s best products is destructive. In that context it is relevant that Hardin subscribed to EUGENICS as well as to human overpopulation. He also promoted what he called LIFEBOAT ETHICS which holds that since global resources are finite, the rich should throw the poor overboard to keep their boat above water. It is not a good idea for the rich to help the poor. Hardin’s works are filled with fear-mongering proclaiming that freedom to breed is intolerable. He wrote that it is better for children of improvident parents to starve to death. He also writes that if we love the truth we must openly deny the validity of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He favors a fascism because of its ability to remove the unwanted gene pools consistent with eugenicism. On the matter of race he wrote that that only racially homogenous societies survive and prosper. Neo-Nazis cite Hardin to justify their position. Hardin lobbied Congress against sending food aid to poor nations, because he believed their populations were threatening Earth’s carrying capacity and so only the best should be allowed to survive. With regard to the commons, early pastures were well regulated by local institutions an even in the wild, humans understood the mutual gains from cooperation. There was no destructive competition for grazing in the commons. Many global commons sustain through community institutions and cooperation. Humans have created a diversity of institutions to manage and share our shared environment. Of course, humans can deplete finite resources. This often happens when we lack appropriate institutions to manage them. We must reject his pernicious ideas on both scientific and moral grounds. Are we really prepared to follow Hardin and say there are only so many lead pipes we can replace? Only so many bodies that should be protected from cancer-causing pollutants? Only so many children whose futures matter? This is particularly important when we deal with climate change. The climate crisis is not a tragedy of the commons. The culprit is not our individual impulses to consume fossil fuels to the ruin of all. And the solution is not to let small islands in Chesapeake Bay or whole countries in the Pacific sink into the past, without a seat on our planetary lifeboat. Let’s stop the mindless invocation of Hardin. Let’s stop saying that we are all to blame because we all overuse shared resources. Let’s stop championing policies that privilege environmental protection for some human beings at the expense of others. And let’s replace Hardin’s flawed metaphor with an inclusive vision for humanity based on democratic governance and cooperation. WHAT YOU WON’T FIND IN THE MEDIA IS THAT GARRETT HARDIN, GOD OF ENVIRONMENTALISM, WAS A SIGNIFICANT ACTIVIST IN FAILED ECO WACKO ANTI HUMAN DOOMOLOGY SUCH AS THE POPULATION BOMB, THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT, AND THE ILLOGICAL SEPARATION OF HUMANS AND NATURE, THAT PECULIAR WEIRDNESS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM THAT BEGINS WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT HUMANS ARE NOT PART OF NATURE BUT SPACE INVADERS THAT THREATEN OTHERWISE PRISTINE NATURE AS SEEN FOR EXAMPLE IN THE BAMBI PRINCIPLE OF ENVIRONMENTLISM, THE HARDIN PRINCIPLE OF CLIMATE ACTIVISM, AND GENESIS OF THE BIBLE. LINK TO BAMBI: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/11/15/the-bambi-principle/ SO WHAT WE FIND IN THE CLIMATE ACTIVISM OF THE UN THAT HAD SAID THAT IT COULD SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS WITH A COP JUST AS THEY HAD DONE IN THE OZONE ISSUE BUT WHAT WE SEE AFTER 26 COPS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IS THAT CLIMATE ACTION IS AN ENDLESS GAME OF COPS AND MUCHO DINERO ALL ENDING UP IN THE POCKETS OF UN BUREAUCRATS. OUR PROBLEM IS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE. OUR PROBLEM IS THE UN. THE SOLUTION IS TO GET RID OF IT AND START OVER.