Editor Notes

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of the greatest leaders of the African race, wrote this in 1923: “I saw the injustice done to my race because it was Black and I became dissatisfied on that account.

In 1968, an ecologist from Texas, Garrett Hardin, published what is considered the classic paper on the dilemma of individual gain versus community gain. Published in the journal Science, Hardin’s paper, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” describes a scenario in which individuals acting alone in their own self-interest ultimately destroy a shared resource.