[P2P-F] Fwd: New From Pluto Press - Nature for Sale: The Commons versus Commodities

[Örsan]

I think this is exactly the point that brings p2p and commons together: imagining billions of us would do a little or as much as we could to produce and/or protect the commons, the results would be giant like wikipedia or similar experiences. can be good to think of various levels and translevel implications in terms of solving porblems of governance and contuniation. 

On 19 jul. 2013, at 19:24, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the tragedy of the commons is also
> partly caused by a feeling of helplessness
> combined with the (partially true) belief
> that things are already so bad and the
> amount we each add, individually, is so
> small, that it hardly matters whether each
> of us adds to the problem or not and so
> we choose the short-term benefits over
> the long-term benefits because it seems
> (it feels as though) no matter what we do,
> the end result will be the same.
> 
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