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Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

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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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Ecology
Overall
Minor
Minors
Economics

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In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
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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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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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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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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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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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We see only what we have names for.
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A finite world can support only a finite population therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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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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Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.
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Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.
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The population problem has no technical solution it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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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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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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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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