Garrett Hardin: Quotes about the world

Garrett Hardin was American ecologist. Explore interesting quotes on world.

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

Tragedy of the Commons, 1968.
Tragedy of the Commons (1968)

“The overall system of a sizeable community struggling to survive in a crowded world may be either socialism or privatism. Either system may work, more or less. But, except in non-critical areas of distribution, commonism cannot possibly work for very long.”

Filters Against Folly (1985)

“Even at the religious level the creationist view is a biased one. The only creation story they mention is the one in Genesis (in which there are actually two stories — the version in the first chapter being so different from that in the second chapter that biblical scholars believe they were written hundreds of years apart). Why do they not mention the belief of the Hindus that the world began with the creation of the cosmic egg? What about the Babylonians' belief that there was not a single creationist god but two cosmic parents?”

Naked Emperors : Essays of a Taboo-Stalker (1982)

“Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit -- in a world that is limited. 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. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”

Tragedy of the Commons, 1968.
Tragedy of the Commons (1968)