Best Garrett Hardin Quotes
- Incommensurables cannot be compared. Compared
- Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. Course
- 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… All
- The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected. Affected
- The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. Inspirational
- The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. Arrangements
- 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… Agree
- 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… Change
- 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… Chestnuts
- 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… Apparent
- 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… Agriculture
- 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… Commerce
- 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… Any
- But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. Became
- 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… Bases
- 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
- 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… Behavior