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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
Science

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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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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
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We see only what we have names for.
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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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The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'
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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 population problem has no technical solution it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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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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Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
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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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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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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 optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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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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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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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
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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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