Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. – Garrett Hardin
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. – Garrett Hardin
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. – Garrett Hardin
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. – Garrett Hardin