Garrett Hardin's Profile
Brief about Garrett Hardin: By info that we know Garrett Hardin was born at 1915-04-21. And also Garrett Hardin is American Environmentalist.
Some Garrett Hardin's quotes. Goto "Garrett Hardin's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Real, Since, TimeThe rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Tags: Cost, Less, ShareThe 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.
Tags: Family, Human, SocietyUsing 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.
Tags: Behavior, General, PublicYou cannot do only one thing.
Tags: CannotWhy 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.
Tags: Environmental, Public, WhyIndeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Tags: Earth, Positive, PrivateA finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
Tags: Equal, Growth, SupportIt is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Tags: Conscience, Control, RunNo one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Tags: Able, Environmental, MeansA coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Tags: Deny, Future, SacrificesContinuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
Tags: Continuity, Ecology, HeartIn a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
Tags: Environmental, Means, ShareOf course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
Tags: Growth, Might, PositiveRuin 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.
Tags: Best, Freedom, MenThe only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Tags: Affected, Majority, MutualThe optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
Tags: Less, Maximum, PopulationRelated topics
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