Quotes by Garrett Hardin

Garrett Hardin

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Humans

Reliability

Technology

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Deny

Obligation

Sacrifice

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

Growth

Support

Zero

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.

Ideas

May

Technique

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

Subversion

Values

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

Calling

Population

Rights

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.

Fire

Lying

Real

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

Conservatism

Ecology

Heart

Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

Differentiation

Ecological

Ecology

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

Ecology

Economics

Minors

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Abortion

Accepting

Action

Agree

Agriculture

Animal

Art

Atheism

Atheist

Attitude

Baby

Behavior

Believe

Blessing

Book

Calling

Capacity

Certainty

Change

Children

Choices

Coercion

Compare

Conservatism

Cost

Cures

Daily Life

Dangerous

Decay

Decision

Deny

Determined

Differentiation

Discovery

Doe

Dog

Dramatic

Earth

Ecological

Ecology

Economics

Enjoy

Environmental

Environmentalist

Essence

Experts

Fall

Favors

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Quotes by Garrett Hardin

Garrett Hardin

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

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