Tragedy of the Commons
Storyboard Text
- These are my sheep on the land that the town people and I share
- All the grass is gone, there are too many sheep for this land. This has caused a tragedy.
- My land
- My land
- My land
- My land
- The town doesn't have any private land, they all own this land together to allow their sheeps to graze.
- The population has grown, which caused the sheep population to also grow. Due to this, the grazing got too out of hand and the grass is now all gone.
- Yea
- Yea
- We want private land
- Yes!
- Due to the sheep grazing and leaving no grass, a solution we came up with was give each family their own land. Instead of sharing the land we are going to make it private now.
- There were other ways that the people could have solved the problem before having to have private land. They could have given each family a limit on how many sheep they were able to have.
- Only 2 sheep per family
- The private land was the outcome of the enclosure movement of the 17th century.
- The 17th Century. The black lines each represent each families parcel of land.
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