The law locks up the man or womanWho steals the goose from off the commonBut leaves the greater villain looseWho steals the common from the gooseAnd geese will still a common lackTill they go and claim it back!—Seventeenth-century folk song protestingenclosure of commons in England In the environmental jurisprudence of modern democracies, two doctrines often…
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