Interesting take: —“Property rights are for farmers and human rights are for m

Interesting take:

—“Property rights are for farmers and human rights are for migrants (hunters). But when it comes to advanced economies these are both reflex propositions in response to possibilities of defection and the tragedy of the commons.

The problem we have today is past even managing the despoiling of commons. The ecosystem has become a people-system. And the main problem with this system is that people can occupy every niche but they don’t eat each other.

This state of affairs is unnatural/unsustainable. Because more and more effort is called for from everyone in a kind of hysteria. And there is no proper instinctual response in place.”— Brian Barr

(CD: edited as best I could. I can’t quite decompose it. But there is something interesting implied by the failure of the information system he’s referring to.)