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Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

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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 finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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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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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
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Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity
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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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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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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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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
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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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The population problem has no technical solution it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
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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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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
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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 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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(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)
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