Tag: the Tragedy
Overfishing our Oceans?!
Today we watched a good bit of the PBS documentary Empty Oceans, Empty Nets. Feel free to click around the movie web site if you want want to explore the issues further. What were the main points? 1. The Problem. Yes, we seem to be overfishing the oceans. In the last 4 years, numerous articles [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2011 under Mr. W, Scribe Post, Unit 11-Water Resources & Pollution.
Tags: fishing, oceans, the Tragedy, water
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The Tragedy of the Doves?
Well, the first test is behind us… I was sharing some info about hunting and “the commons” on the review day, and that got me thinking a bit more about the Tragedy of the Commons from the the first unit (see previous student post on The Tragedy of the Commons). As I shared with you, [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2010 under Mr. W, On My Mind Post, Unit 1-Intro to Env Sci.
Tags: hunting, the Tragedy
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Fishing Simulation/Tradgedy of the Commons
Friday, September 3rd: Today in class we did a fishing simulation. I have attached the instructions for the game. There were 16 fish for each group of 4 or 5 and each group represented a village. Each person could take as many fish as they wanted, but if they took less than 2 fish, their [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under NatalieB, Scribe Post, Unit 1-Intro to Env Sci.
Tags: fishing, the Tragedy
Comments: 2
