"No technical solution problems", tick-tack-toe + morality
The prestigious scientific journal,
Science has just completed a four-week series of special editions addressing different aspects of the
State of the Planet.
These editions have addressed
Population + Biodiversity,
Fisheries, Soils, and Food Security,
Freshwater Resources + the Energy Picture and
Air Quality + Climate Change.
Next week a related special issue that will commemorate the
35th anniversary of the publication of the late Garrett Hardin's classic essay, "
The Tragedy of the Commons."
This essay should be well worth a look as
Hardin's paper asks whether it is possible to achieve philosopher
Jeremy Bentham's goal of "
the greatest good for the greatest number".
Hardin also discusses the need to consider the
rules of any game before attempting to
achieve a particular outcome, and to think about the
changes in human behaviour, based on
morality, required to
solve problems which do not have technical/technological solutions.
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