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In the years since “The Tragedy of the Commons” appeared, even a cursory glance around the landscape reveals that Hardin’s gloomy thesis has been disproven a thousand times.
I have often wondered at logging in National forests. First, if you log the forest in rotation, you will never achieve the old-growth forest that would be its eventual state. In that sense, logging prevents conservation of the natural environment. What you get instead is an artificially extended early stage forest. Second, if a private company makes any profit from the venture, then I am essentially paying taxes to a private company. My taxes set the forest aside from competitive development, and then enable a private company to profit by the value added to the forest by removing it from development and guaranteeing future growth without the need for purchase of the land. -It seems a losing proposition for me.