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Garrett Hardin
American
Environmentalist
Born:
Apr 21
,
1915
Died:
Sep 14
,
2003
Coercion
Commons
Environmental
Natural
Property
Values
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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
Best
Freedom
Destination
Men
Own
Society
Ruin
Rush
Pursuing
Toward
His
Which
Interest
Commons
Each
Believes
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett Hardin
Environmental
Wilderness
Enter
Able
No-One
Should
Means
Mechanical
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
Financial
Sometimes
Political
Political Power
Power
Recommendations
Threaten
Impact
Ecological
Moreover
Studies
Investments
Suppress
Practical
Principles
Surprising
Commerce
Vested
Vested Interests
Created
Interests
Should
Used
Hardly
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Garrett Hardin
Future
Obligation
Sacrifices
He
Individualist
Make
Deny
Any
The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
Garrett Hardin
Than
Optimum
Maximum
Then
Less
Population
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
Bible
Trust
Fear
Panicked
We Cannot
Morality
Disappearance
Leads
Decay
Cannot
Disintegration
Them
Ask
Certainty
Apparent
Fundamentalists
Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
Garrett Hardin
Freedom
Ruin
Commons
Brings
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
Good
Lie
Fire
Elsewhere
Out
Troubles
Real
Contradiction
Reason
Using
Fundamentalists
Pull
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
Values
Economics
Think
Must
Religious
Threatens
Ecology
Mere
Major
However
Opposition
Than
Held
Roots
Fundamental
Deeper
Widely
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
Garrett Hardin
Values
Seen
Attack
Inevitably
Subversion
Act
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
Natural
Values
Demanding
Nothing
Way
Defined
Solution
Morality
Only
Ideas
Sciences
May
Human
Little
Natural Sciences
Requires
Technical
Human Values
Techniques
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
Garrett Hardin
World
Must
Per
Steadily
Finite
Share
Goods
Means
Decrease
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
Man
Before
Releasing
Finds
Cost
Purifying
Rational
Share
He
His
Than
Commons
Them
Less
Wastes
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Garrett Hardin
Positive
Property
Our
Resources
Earth
Indeed
Favors
Particular
Concept
Exhausting
Private
Private Property
Pollution
Which
Us
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
Behavior
Unbearable
General
General Public
Because
Does
Metropolis
Conditions
Same
Frontier
Public
Commons
Cesspool
Using
Harm
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
Rights
Natural
Decision
Made
Rest
Human Rights
Society
Else
Must
Follows
Itself
Any
Human
Size
Anyone
Irrevocably
Anyone Else
Regard
Cannot
Declaration
Choice
Unit
Fundamental
Universal
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett Hardin
People
Kind
Recommend
Mutual
Mutually
Only
Majority
Affected
Agreed
Coercion
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