Quote by Garrett Hardin
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This

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

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else. – Garrett Hardin

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Family
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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

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Education
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. – Garrett Hardin

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Other Quotes from
environmental
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We wont have a society if we destroy the environment. – Margaret Mead

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environmental

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesnt pose a serious environmental issue. – John Hickenlooper

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environmental

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it. – Barry Commoner

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environmental

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? – Bruce Sterling

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environmental

Random Quotes

Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people. – Anne Lamott

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Change

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that youve scowled upon. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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smile

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. – Christopher Dawson

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Food

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it. – Jonathan Sacks

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Change