Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. – Garrett Hardin
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. – Garrett Hardin
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
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the worlds goods must steadily decrease. – Garrett Hardin