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You cannot do only one thing.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Cannot One Thing Only Only One Thing Thing You

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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

Topics: Contradiction Elsewhere Fire Fundamentalists Good Lie Out Pull Real Reason Troubles Using

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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

Topics: Apparent Ask Bible Cannot Certainty Decay Disappearance Disintegration Family Fear Fundamentalists Leads Morality Panicked Them Trust We Cannot

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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

Topics: Deeper Ecology Economics Fundamental Held However Major Mere Must Opposition Religious Roots Than Think Threatens Values Widely I Think

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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Act Attack Inevitably Seen Values

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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Change Defined Demanding Human Human Values Ideas Little May Morality Natural Nothing Only Requires Sciences Solution Technical Techniques Values Way

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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Decrease Finite Goods Means Must Per Share Steadily World

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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Less Maximum Optimum Population Than Then

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Incommensurables cannot be compared.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Cannot Compared

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

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Below Course Evidence Growth Might Optimum Population Positive Rate Taken

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: April 21st, 1915

Died: September 14th, 2003

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