More general examples (some alluded to by Hardin) of potential and actual tragedies include:
1. Uncontrolled human population growth leading to overpopulation.
2. Air, whether ambient air polluted by industrial emissions and cars among other sources of air pollution, or indoor air
3. Water – Water pollution, water crisis of over-extraction of groundwater and wasting water due to over irrigation
4. Forests – Frontier logging of old growth forest and slash and burn
5. Energy resources and climate – Environmental residue of mining and drilling, Burning of fossil fuels and consequential global warming
6. Animals – Habitat destruction and poaching leading to the Holocene mass extinction
7. Oceans – Overfishing
(Hardin, G (1968); I.A. Shiklomanov, (2000); Wilson, E.O., (2002); and Leakey, Richard and Roger Lewin, 1996)
C. Anukwonke. The Concept of Tragedy of the Commons: Issues and Applications: DOI - 10.13140/RG.2.1.4977.9362
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