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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
Garrett J. Hardin
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
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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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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
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Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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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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You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.
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In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
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The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.
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The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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