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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.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Basis Constantly Education Generations Inexorable Knowledge Natural Refreshed Requires Succession Tendency Thing Wrong Wrong Thing

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Agriculture Been Commons Discovery Estate Invention Logic Long Long Time Perhaps Private Private Property Property Real Real Estate Since Time Understood Way

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

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Concept Earth Exhausting Favors Indeed Our Particular Pollution Positive Private Private Property Property Resources Us Which

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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Became Biological Calling Chemical Natural Overloaded Population Processes Property Property Rights Recycling Rights

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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Because Behavior Cesspool Commons Conditions Does Frontier General General Public Harm Metropolis Public Same Unbearable Using

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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

Topics: Appeal Breeding Conscience Control Long Long Run Mankind Mistake Run Think

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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

~Garrett Hardin

Topics: Arrangements Coercion Create Produce Responsibility Social Some Sort

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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

~Garrett Hardin

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: April 21st, 1915

Died: September 14th, 2003

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