Author Question: The Tragedy of the Commons occurs because a. there are so few commons left in the world. b. the ... (Read 85 times)

ec501234 · **on:** Sep 4, 2018

The Tragedy of the Commons occurs because

a. there are so few commons left in the world.
b. the ocean, our largest commons, is increasingly owned by individual states.
c. people tend to overuse a commons.
d. people protect the commons, and this leads to the overuse of private areas.
e. too much attention is being paid to commons rather than more important issues.

Question 2

Referencing malaria, the CDC estimates that

a. between 350 and 500 million people get the disease every year.
b. over 10 million people die annually from the disease.
c. it is the most deadly disease in Africa and South America.
d. fewer people get malaria than contract sickle-cell disease.
e. it a major threat to the United States.