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The population problem has no technical solution it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

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Garrett Hardin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1915
Born: April 21
Died: 2003
Died: September 14
Biologist
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Ecologist
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University Teacher
Dallas
Texas
Garrett James Hardin
Garrett J. Hardin
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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 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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(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)
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We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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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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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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The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
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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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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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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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We see only what we have names for.
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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 optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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