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Garrett Hardin Quotes

American - Environmentalist | April 21, 1915 - September 14, 2003

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.

Power Environmental Impact Political

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Growth Support World Equal Zero

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Heart Ecology Conservatism Continuity

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.

Freedom Best Men Destination Society

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

Rights Recycling Property Population

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Environmental Wilderness Mechanical

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Freedom Ruin Commons Brings

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.

Change Ideas Solution Values Nothing

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

World Share Must Finite Means Goods

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 constantly refreshed.

Education Knowledge Wrong Wrong Thing

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Positive Earth Pollution Resources

You cannot do only one thing.

You Cannot One Thing Only Thing

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