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Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.
Garrett Hardin
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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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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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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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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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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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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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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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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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Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
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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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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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The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
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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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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 optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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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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We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.
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