Reaction Paper- Reclaiming the Commons

Common pool resources denotes natural resources used by many individuals in common, such as fisheries, groundwater basins, and irrigation systems. Such resources have long been subject to overexploitation and misuse by individuals acting in their own best interests.

As they protest the police can do very little to stop them because they will yell about police brutality and many other things and so as they march the horde grows and get bigger and they destroy small businesses and many people ways of living and they do not care what they do and when they finally get their point they the devastation they leave in their wake is unbelievable they say they want to make america good again befor that can happen the people need to help and fix the problem because the damages done cost people thousands of dollars or even tens of thousands of dollars.

To begin with, peaceful and violent protests can spark the change, or get the attention of more supporters until something is resolved for the equality. The article, “Making a Visual Argument:Inequality and the Occupy Movement” shows one of the most influential movement, the occupy movement. Occupy Miami showed a man with a dollar taped to his mouth reading “occupy.” Then, during the occupy Portland demonstration a young college girl Elizabeth Nichols is pepper sprayed at point blank. These acts caught the eyes of the American people, and rose in popularity. The occupy movement also showed American’s that there is a problem of economic equality through the occupy at Miami and Portland

One of the strategies used by the activists was speeces. A speech is a form of communication in spoken language, made be a speaker before an audience for a given purpose. Another is marches. A march is to walk with regular and, measured tread, marches as soldiers on a parade; Advance in an organized body. Boycotts is another effective strategy they used. A boycott is to combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as means of intimidation or coercion. The last, most dangerous strategy they had was riots. A riot is a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a crowd or group of persons, as by a crowd, a government policy, ect. In the streets.

The activists feel like this disruptive protest is needed in order to disturb not only the public but to disturb politicians and people in high places. They feel like in this way they will grab the attention, sympathy, and support of citizens and will force politicians to face these issues and propose solutions to them like police reform and will also remind the police force and all other authorities that they are aware of these injustices and that they are never ignored (Mather).

First, these protests woke Americans up from complacency, and combined with other forms of social activism. They helped to show citizens, policymakers, and anyone listening that there could be a better way. That hope was not just an idea, but a better future was both necessary and possible. The are

There are many ways to protest and there are many outcomes of the protests. Marches, Sit-ins, and Boycotts are all very effective methods of protests. There are many reasons why these methods of protest are effective. These include the amount of people that are involved, the amount of attention they create, and by sending the companies broke. By using these protests, the effectiveness of them has shaped American history and the protests are still remembered today.

Protesting has existed for decades as an option to get your voice heard. The problem is it cannot always be justify because of the occasional

She also proposes a way to bring change to the world from this self-centered view and shareholders driven by money. Klein argues that one of the ways to solve climate change is to change our current capitalist and extractivist system by participating in social movements. I agree with her that social movements, including protests, petitions, and boycotts could force our government to change our current system and remake our economy. However, there should also be a change in our daily routine and dependency on high polluting materials and machinery. A change from a capitalist and extractivist system to a sustainability-oriented system, in attempts to stop exacerbating climate change. However, this would have to be done in an effective resilience against the rich, whom benefit economically from such systems and the public/majority that rely on natural

One claim is that corporations have been given unfair advantages over the American people. From being exempt from taxes to being able to bypass giving health insurance benefits to employees, there are many loopholes the government has created between themselves and the corporations. Both the OWS and the Tea Party seem to agree on this point. But are the corporations to blame for that? Sure, the American people are suffering from this greed, but the corporations are capitalizing from what is being given to them. And from what these protestors are stating, it appears that they would do the same too. Seeing the need for change throughout the United States, the” 99 % of Americans” are stepping up. They are determined to make a change in today’s society and refuse to let government cronyism and corporate greed lead to the further downfall of the economy and another depression. And although corporate greed is a major problem in our society, it is not always the case. Corporations do not always end up on top and many have gone bankrupt since over the last several years.

From the article of “Reclaiming the Commons” By Naomi Klein, Klein defines The Commons is “the spirit they share is a radical reclaiming of The Commons” (Klein, 2001, p.82). In other words, the common is a public space where people go. People can gather together to talk and have meetings. An example of the commons is “used to see fights as saving a nation, now I see it as saving democracy” (Klein, 2001, p.83). In other words, The Commons has to do with anything like the cultural, social, and natural materials. It is all public and not private to the society. The Commons implication is nothing is private in the society because everything becomes public for the society to know what is going on such as the news and media of other people. The significance

When parents around the world raise their children, it is common for them to pass on their political, social, and economic ideologies, and although there can be outliers it’s not nearly as common. For example, a child raised in a Catholic home is more likely to follow the Catholic faith than a child who is raised to be agnostic. And the reverse is also true, the child who is raised agnostic is most likely going to remain agnostic in their adult life, because that’s what their parents passed on to them. However, as Garrett Hardin explains in his essay “The Tragedy of the Commons,” “conscience is self-eliminating.” Although some readers may believe the proper interpretation of this is that people’s ideologies will naturally change over time, I disagree. I contend that what Hardin means is certain mindsets will die out based on the decision by parents to either pass on their ideology to their children, or not to. This is because if parents choose not to pass their beliefs onto

Throughout the years society has changed due to protest and still continues to change whether those changes are good or bad. However for the most part all played a part in the way society is today. It was not until I found myself sitting in class as my professor began lecturing about the many different protest movement of the past that I realized a lot has changed because of the protest of the past. He began talking about some of the principles along with the methods in each protest. He even talked about their goals and the many different outcomes. What caught my attention was the different principles and practices of each leader during their protest.

The tragedy of the commons and the problem of collective action are two key concepts in the world of political science. They act under the assumption that man is a rational being who will act in his own self interest. Humanity id broadly diverse meaning that each individual has their own ideas as to how society should run and how people should live.(heywood) This inevitably results in disagreement and this is where politics steps in. Aristotle described politics as the ‘master science’, ‘the activity through which human beings attempt to improve their lives and create the Good Society.’ Through the tragedy of the commons and the problem of collective action we can see how politics is essentially the ‘search for conflict resolution’

Few decades ago, clean water was “commons” (Hardin, 1968) to us. It was a natural resource shared by everyone and not owned by anyone. This “commons” was taken for granted to the extent that people exploit clean water without considering its finiteness. Resorts and factories dumped wastewater and ruined nearby rivers and oceans. People carelessly littered garbage and substituted the dirty water with diminishing clean water. They definitely benefited in terms of financial cost and comfort from their negligence. However, those individual interests ended up bringing severe water pollution, attacking our collective interest of public health and well-being. In this vein, water pollution is undeniably the “Tragedy of the Commons” (Hardin, 1968). Following these dire circumstances, water purification techniques and systems have been further developed and become widespread. Yet, the technical measurements have not quite fundamentally solved the problem. What is needed at this point is people’s will and practical action to improve the environment. However, merely hoping and encouraging people to do so are not enough. In order to have a steady support from people, we need a practical device for a “mutual coercion” (Hardin, 1968) to earn consent to coercion necessary to amend the situation. In this paper, I am going to address the technical and individual effort for water pollution and its limitation, and suggest a way to complement this limitation through a device on an institutional