The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. Garrett Hardin More Quotes by Garrett Hardin More Quotes From Garrett Hardin Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence. Garrett Hardin ecological ecology differentiation In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult. Garrett Hardin abortion zero fall A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. Garrett Hardin deny obligation sacrifice What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population? Garrett Hardin daily-life increase population It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. Garrett Hardin mistake running thinking 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 environmental impact political (Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability) Garrett Hardin reliability technology humans We see only what we have names for. Garrett Hardin names To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it. Garrett Hardin agree enjoy coercion Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species Garrett Hardin hubris potency dangerous Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity Garrett Hardin capacity Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't. Garrett Hardin religious believe book The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed. Garrett Hardin morality atheism states You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended. Garrett Hardin taken change law The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them. Garrett Hardin waste cost men Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally. Garrett Hardin problem ifs The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. Garrett Hardin injustice responsibility coercion Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. Garrett Hardin pollution favors earth 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. Garrett Hardin real fire lying 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 decay morality certainty
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