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Garrett Hardin

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
— Garrett Hardin wild
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
— Garrett Hardin world
Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
— Garrett Hardin art
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
— Garrett Hardin freedom
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
— Garrett Hardin art
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.
— Garrett Hardin war
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
— Garrett Hardin science
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
— Garrett Hardin future
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 it.
— Garrett Hardin joy
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.
— Garrett Hardin science
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.
— Garrett Hardin time
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.
— Garrett Hardin men
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.
— Garrett Hardin time
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
— Garrett Hardin logic
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.
— Garrett Hardin men
You cannot do only one thing.
— Garrett Hardin you
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.
— Garrett Hardin fear
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
— Garrett Hardin value
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
— Garrett Hardin men
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
— Garrett Hardin growth
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
— Garrett Hardin world
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
— Garrett Hardin people
The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
— Garrett Hardin
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 we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
— Garrett Hardin family
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.
— Garrett Hardin family

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