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Garrett Hardin

Born: April 21, 1915

Died: September 14, 2003

Nationality: American

Occupation: Environmentalist

Biography: Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation and whose concept of the tragedy of the commons brought attention to the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment. He was best known for his elaboration of this theme in his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons.

Garrett Hardin

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

- Garrett Hardin

Source/Notes: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle (1972 edition), Viking Adult
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“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

Source/Notes: The Immigration dilemma: avoiding the tragedy of the commons (1995 edition), F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform
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“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

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

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

- Garrett Hardin

Source/Notes: The Immigration dilemma: avoiding the tragedy of the commons (1995 edition), F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform
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Garrett Hardin

“The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.”

- Garrett Hardin

Source/Notes: The Immigration dilemma: avoiding the tragedy of the commons (1995 edition), F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform
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“The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.”

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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 releasing them.”

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

- Garrett Hardin

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“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

Source/Notes: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle (1972 edition), Viking Adult
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“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

Source/Notes: The Immigration dilemma: avoiding the tragedy of the commons (1995 edition), F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform
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Garrett Hardin

“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 metropolis is unbearable.”

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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 is always alarming.”

- Garrett Hardin

Source/Notes: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker (1982 edition), Course Technology Ptr
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“You cannot do only one thing.”

- Garrett Hardin

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