[GuinansEyebrows]

The tragedy of the commons.

Also, you have a scary view of humans' place within the world.

[all2]

Responsibility is a scary thing. It means we have the opportunity to do well or to do poorly. And if we do poorly, we bear the consequences.

[GuinansEyebrows]

that sounds nice and neat to say, but it doesn't really bear weight when you insert that into the world we actually live in. who is "we" in this? i'm not DuPont dumping chemicals in a river. i'm not mining for rare earth minerals. i'm not nestle trying to privatize water. so i'm not that "we".

[peterhadlaw]

The point is, whatever it is, it's not the person I responded to. Unless that was Mr. DuPont himself dumping chemicals in nature and the commenter left that out strategically.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Unless that was Mr. DuPont himself dumping chemicals in nature and the commenter left that out strategically

NPS is stretched on resources. They don't set up permits because it's fun, but because something needs to be conserved.