“FREEDOM is the recognition of necessity,” said ecologist Garrett Hardin, quoting Hegel (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) in 1968. Building on Hegel’s ideas, Hardin, who was concerned about global overpopulation, emphasized, “Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all!”

To explain the destruction resulting from the inability to manage the interests of the many, Hardin introduced the concept of the tragedy of the commons,