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29 quotes by Garrett Hardin

Garrett Hardin Garrett Hardin (1986) Born 21 April 1915 Dallas, Texas Died September 14, 2003(2003-09-14) (aged 88) Santa Barbara, California Fields Ecology Known for The Tragedy of the Commons (essay) Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation. His exposition of the tragedy of the commons, in a famous 1968 paper in Science, called attention to "the...
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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... →

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You cannot do only one thing.

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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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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

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Incommensurables cannot be compared.

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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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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... →

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them... →

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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property... →

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The 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... →

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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

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