I’ve been on the road in California all week so it’s been difficult to post, but I’d like to share this wonderful presentation by Elinor Ostrom at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Elinor won the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and I’ve long been a tremendous fan of her work. Take a look:
Watch another terrific talk by Elinor entitled, “Beyond The Tragedy of the Commons” here.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
She has some good ideas. Now, if only more people would listen.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I haven’t been at a fast enough connection to listen to it and was hoping a longer blog discussion would follow with some ideas.
Guy’s observation is a good one. This is an important issue, more important than the new atheist issue. How come people, including me, are drawn to something so marginally important when the biosphere is at stake? Maybe people will have to miss more meals, here in the developed countries before this gets our distracted attention.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I agree with Anthony’. This is much more important than the atheist issue. It really goes to the heart of questions like why we don’t succeed with global warming or how to deal with the water problems that will arise because we failed on global warming. Still, just look at reactons: this is the 3rd comment here vs. several times more for Chris’s post re: Dawkins.
In fact, as the originator of a group named ecoecon at the Green Change site, I have referenced this post to get more people to read this, and view the video. Let’s hope it works.