A biography for Garrett Hardinhasn’t been written yet.
“You cannot do only one thing.”
“Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.”
“Incommensurables cannot be compared.”
“Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.”
“Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.”
“A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.”
“But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.”
“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.”
“Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.”
“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?”