The challenge of Governance: Upscaling from Local to Global; Moving from Excess to Balance
In this economically and technologically hyper-connected world, all too many political challenges fall through the global institutional cracks, causing short-term harm and risking a
tragedy of the commons. When many individuals share the use of a common limited resource, like the grazing
common of a medieval village, if each acts independently in his own interest by increasing the number of cattle that he grazes on the green, the villagers will eventually deplete their shared resource, even though it is in no-one's interest for this to happen.
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