Quotes of Garrett Hardin - somelinesforyou

“ We cannot bear very much reality, we are biased to protect our egos against the onslaught of unwelcome truths. ”

- Garrett Hardin

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

- Garrett Hardin

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

- Garrett Hardin

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

- Garrett Hardin

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

- Garrett Hardin

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

- 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. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ 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

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

- Garrett Hardin

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

- Garrett Hardin

“ 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

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

- Garrett Hardin

“ 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

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

- Garrett Hardin

“ In our day (though not in earlier times) technical solutions are always welcome. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning. ”

- Garrett Hardin

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

- 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. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ Incommensurables cannot be compared. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ To many, the word coercion implies arbitrary decisions of distant and irresponsible bureaucrats; but this is not a necessary part of its meaning. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ Incommensurables cannot be compared. ”

- Garrett Hardin

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

- Garrett Hardin

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Garrett Hardin

“ In our day (though not in earlier times) technical solutions are always welcome. ”

- Garrett Hardin
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