The phrase "avoid the tragedy of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the prevention of unfortunate events or outcomes in various contexts, such as social issues, personal decisions, or historical events.
Example: "We must take action to avoid the tragedy of homelessness in our community."
Alternatives: "prevent the disaster of" or "steer clear of the misfortune of".
"All it did was help people get off cocaine" and avoid "the tragedy of these pathetic babies coming into the world," Mr. Hood added.
The Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom studied situations in which users of a common-pool resource, such as a fishery ecosystem, are able to avoid the "tragedy of the commons," whereby public resources are overexploited to the eventual detriment of everyone involved.
Put differently, how individuals can put aside self-interested behavior and avoid the tragedy of the commons without the need to privatize the commons or centralize control of them.
It didn't take long for Zachary's parents to create The ZAC Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping other families avoid the tragedy of an unintentional drowning – especially in minority communities.
Such individually transferable quotas (ITQs) avoid the tragedy of the commons but run into other problems because the public basically abandons ownership of a natural resource for free; at least the question of compensation remains largely unresolved.
At the other extreme, to try to avoid the tragedy of amputation, health care providers should concentrate efforts on a patient with a risk score of >21, who has a 50% chance of an LEA.
With this pricing scheme, no individual user has an incentive to over-utilize shared resources, thereby avoiding the "tragedy of the commons" for the P2P network.
After describing a "wasted" morning that might make him a near-terminal case of chronic procrastination he writes: "And I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different". A bit more procrastination and we might have avoided the tragedy of Iraq.
Since then, as a result of her work, millions of children have avoided the tragedy of lead and mercury poisoning.
The U.S. and Europe "must do all we can to help the Macedonian people avoid the same tragedy of violence and warfare that has afflicted so many of their neighbors in southeast Europe," Powell said.
This fishing community is admirably and desperately trying to avoid the classic "tragedy of the commons" in order to preserve their livelihood.
