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Hardin’s oversimplification of population growth

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Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons put forward underdeveloped arguments that continue to be reflected in simplistic debates about the drivers and implications of demographic dynamics. It’s time to embrace the complexity that Hardin lacked in order to develop better-informed policy.

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  1. CU Population Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA

    Lori M. Hunter

  2. Department of Political Science, UW Center for Environmental Politics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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Hunter, L.M., Prakash, A. Hardin’s oversimplification of population growth. Nat Sustain 2, 78–79 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0230-5

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