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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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In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
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The population problem has no technical solution it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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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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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
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Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.
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We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.
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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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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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A finite world can support only a finite population therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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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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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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Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms skyhooks. Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.
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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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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
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Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity
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The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
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