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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have...

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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a...

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

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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested inter...

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of cert...

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Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individua...

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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

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Garrett Hardin

Ecologist

Born: 1915-04-21

Died: 2003-09-14

Garrett James Hardin (21 April 1915 – 14 September 2003) was a leading and controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas who was most known for his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons. He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology, which states "You cannot do only one thing".More