By 
Nicholas Amendolare
 | 
TED-Ed Original

What is the tragedy of the commons?

Is it possible that overfishing super germs and global warming are all caused by the same thing? In 1968 a man named Garrett Hardin sat down to write an essay about overpopulation. Within it he discovered a pattern of human behavior that explains some of history's biggest problems. Nicholas Amendolare describes the tragedy of the commons.

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