When I attended the Joni Adamson,”Rethinking the Commons” lecture, she discussed many topics.  Some of them were more in depth than others and some were very confusing.  Due to this variety of topics, I have chosen to write this blog about one topic that I felt most familiar and interested by.  The topic I chose was the issue of “who has access to the global commons”.   The specific example that she gave was that the Amazon forest is considered a “global common”.  She mentioned how many people in Northern America view the Amazon rainforest as the “lungs” of the planet.  While the people in Northern America and other more industrially developed countries are rather passionate about the conservation of the rainforest, this often pits them against the native people who reside in the Amazon.

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