Readings

• Garrett Hardin. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science 162: 1243-48. Accessed at sciencemag.org (in Canvas if you can’t access).
• Jared Diamond. 2008. What’s your consumption factor? Jan 2, New York Times.
• Paul Hawken (editor), 2017. Drawdown. NY: Penguin. Pp 76-82.
• Patrick Greenfield. 2020. Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale: report. Sept 9, The Guardian.

Optional:

• Alan Weisman. 2007. The World Without Us. NY: Picador (chapter 5, ‘ The Lost Menagerie’). In Canvas
• William Catton. 1998. Malthus: More relevant now than ever. Population Institute Canada.

Lecture pages

• Tragedy of the commons
• Have we overshot?
• Property (a response to Hardin’s ‘privatization’ solution)
• Americans and their stuff
• Outline

Video

• Story of Stuff
• A Crude Awakening (documentary), excerpt