“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
Author: Garrett Hardin
Category: environmental
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“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
Author: Garrett Hardin
Category: environmental
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“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
Author: Garrett Hardin
Category: knowledge
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“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
Author: Garrett Hardin
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“Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”
— Garrett Hardin
Author: Garrett Hardin
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“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.”
— Garrett Hardin
Author: Garrett Hardin
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“Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.”
— Garrett Hardin
Author: Garrett Hardin
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“Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.”
— Garrett Hardin
Author: Garrett Hardin
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“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
Author: Garrett Hardin
Category: education
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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
Author: Garrett Hardin
Category: freedom
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