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You cannot do only one thing. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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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

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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

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

— Garrett Hardin

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

— 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

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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

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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

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— 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

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