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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

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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
History
Colonize
Earth
Progression
Human
Exploitation
Humans
Produced
Throughout
Destroy
Move
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