Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of human overpopulation. He is most known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons, in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment"
by Garrett Hardin • April 22, 1993 • History
"We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such start...
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