Historically, people also cut down most of the forests in the Mediterranean for firewood and shipbuilding without even attempting to balance the process, causing major problems for their descendants. Most of this activity predated modern capitalism by millennia.
Historically and currently, people polluted common waters and air with all sorts of agricultural and industrial runoff. Heck, someone around me has been feeding their home fireplace with plastic right now and fifty other families have to smell the acrid smoke.
Historically and currently, people overfished oceanic stocks to total depletion in certain seas.
Historically and currently, people dumped their refuse somewhere behind their village or city, creating rotting heaps of trash.
I don't see anything made up about the tragedy of the commons.
And a lot of those things you list are not tragedy of the commons as stated, but a consequences of the very thing that Hardin was defending - the enclosure of the commons and privatisation. Because privatisation and capitalism both encourage competition, and unsustainable behaviour towards common resources. This is why we see agricultural and industrial runoffs, oceanic stock depletion etc. Historical communities tend to have tools and practices that prevent all of that stuff from happening, practices that have been put aside with colonialism, enclosure and markets ...
Historically and currently, people polluted common waters and air with all sorts of agricultural and industrial runoff. Heck, someone around me has been feeding their home fireplace with plastic right now and fifty other families have to smell the acrid smoke.
Historically and currently, people overfished oceanic stocks to total depletion in certain seas.
Historically and currently, people dumped their refuse somewhere behind their village or city, creating rotting heaps of trash.
I don't see anything made up about the tragedy of the commons.