"In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world’s goods must steadily decrease."
― Garrett Hardin
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Environmental
― Garrett Hardin
More From Garrett Hardin
- "Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Environmental
- "If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts."― David Suzuki
- "I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn’t realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left."― Vivienne Westwood
- "All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies."― David Attenborough