Actually more amusing is that the old Comintern bloc contains a multitude of environmental catastrophes - No Capitalism Needed - that also revolve around a kind of tragedy of the commons.
However, otherwise, to throw Dibble a bone, it is quite true that there has been recent literature around a more nuanced understanding of certain traditional commons systems (that meet certain criteria). Nevertheless, the idea that traditional systems are examples of good management is Noble Savage era tripe, there are plenty of examples (such as the American South West pre-contact) that suggest over exploitation of commons leading to collapse.
Anyway, markets and private ownership are not perfect - no human system is - and to help address inevitable failings, intelligent market regulation is a good thing.
I’m reasoning from your point, see. Because you reject this Jack Chick tract, you obviously don’t believe in God.
Belief in innate rights does not neccessarily entail believing a committee of UN bureaucrats has any idea what they are or any more right to define them than anyone else does.
No such implication intended. I don’t romanticize Communism at all. Abbhorent system.
You’ll get no argument from me. I agree completely.
No, I’m recognizing when defining something as TotC is actually an attempt to define the problem away. The problem with open sea fisheries isn’t that they’re a common resource. The problem is lack of enforcement of the regulations that do exist.