Maximum Quote by Garrett Hardin Download Open image “The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.” — Garrett Hardin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Maximum Optimum Population
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“The optimum population,” said Mustapha Mond, “is modelled on the iceberg—eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
As long as there is no control of population, the population explosion will make it so easy for politicians to dominate. — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself. — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask,… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.” — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
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