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
change
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.
-Garrett Hardin
education
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
environmental
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
-Garrett Hardin
environmental
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
-Garrett Hardin
environmental
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
environmental
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?
-Garrett Hardin
family
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
family
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?
-Garrett Hardin
fear
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.
-Garrett Hardin
freedom
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
-Garrett Hardin
freedom
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
-Garrett Hardin
future
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.
-Garrett Hardin
knowledge
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
-Garrett Hardin
positive
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
-Garrett Hardin
positive
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
power
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.
-Garrett Hardin
society
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
society
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?
-Garrett Hardin
trust
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