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Garret Hardin later had to admit that his conclusion in The Tragedy of the Commons was wrong: history does not prove that people will inevitably mismanage the Commons, rather the contrary. Gardin's thesis was just a Trojan horse for more capture of public lands by private, corporate ownership in the goal so succinctly captured by the WEF slogan: "You will own nothing and be happy." And of course, pay rent for everything from land to air to your technocrat overlords. Talk to any farmer and they will tell you how stupid they'd have to be to over-exploit their land. This typically happens when farmers are taken off the land and corporate agribusiness takes over, with its sole value being maximizing profits. The same applies to forestry: the larger logging corporations have become here in Canada, the worse and more harmful their practices have become. If instead we gave life leases to smaller portions of forest to family-based operations, it would be treated as a legacy to protect and manage wisely for their descendants. Small operators have already proven it.

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Here in the Cowichan Valley they are attacking farms through "Water Scarcity" and "Climate Catastrophe". There is an "Atmospheric River" bringing 300! mm of rain this week on the western exposures.

The Official Community Plans and climate remediation scams have been passed down through WEF/UN/ IPCC globalists to their national, provincial, and local minions and useful idiots.

The Epoch Times documentary "No Farmers, No Food" is an important record of the background and agenda.

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There's a good documentary from the BC interior near Kamloops where BC Resource Officers came in like storm troopers to shut down an entire farming valley, even seeking out the well pump houses and trying to shut them down. You know you're in trouble when "resource officers" arrive in bulletproof vests and other cop-like gear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J5LuFijhBc

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This is why I don't think anyone else considers Hardin to be on the left.

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