Garrett Hardin

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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

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freedom

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

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future

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.

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knowledge

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

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positive

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

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positive

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.

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power

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.

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society

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

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society

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?

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