3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin 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?
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin 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.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin 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.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world’s goods must steadily decrease.
3 December 2020 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.
