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Garrett Hardin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1915
Born: April 21
Died: 2003
Died: September 14
Biologist
Demographer
Ecologist
Statistician
University Teacher
Dallas
Texas
Garrett James Hardin
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Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.
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Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.
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A finite world can support only a finite population therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'
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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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We see only what we have names for.
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