Garrett Hardin
Garrett Hardin
Garrett James Hardinwas an American ecologist and philosopher 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 damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "You cannot do only one thing", which "modestly implies that there is at least one unwanted consequence"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth21 April 1915
CountryUnited States of America
Garrett Hardin quotes about
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?
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.
The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?
We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable