The tragedy of the global commons: dynamic aspects of a knowledge ecology and sociocultural entropy

Abstract

Contemporary misuse of resources is repeating on a massive scale in the global village "the tragedy of the commons" that once afflicted English villages. Why is the planet vandalized by diverse ecological degradations? In this simplified overview even small scale resource depletions are included to have a significant impact on primitive cultures, impelling migration, violent conflict and cultural extinction. Environmental protection to preserve and sustain dwindling resources has emerged as a modern concern. To discern an underlying dynamic for such an ideational and ecological entropy suggests the development of a model as a synthesis and meta-analytic approach (once envisaged as a vital cybernetic objective).