Nature and Man's Fate
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- | "In the days before [[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur]] [[World population|man's population]] was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a cybernetic system in which the principal feedback element at the upper limit was [[disease]]. The crowd-diseases — [[smallpox]], [[cholera]], [[Typhoid fever|typhoid]], [[plague]], etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "density-dependent factors," whose effectiveness in reducing [[population]] is a power function of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --''[[Nature and Man's Fate]]'' (1965) by [[Garrett Hardin]] | + | "In the days before [[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur]] [[World population|man's population]] was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a [[cybernetic]] system in which the principal [[feedback]] element at the upper limit was [[disease]]. The [[crowd]]-diseases — [[smallpox]], [[cholera]], [[Typhoid fever|typhoid]], [[plague]], etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "[[density-dependent factors]]," whose effectiveness in reducing [[population]] is a [[power function]] of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --''[[Nature and Man's Fate]]'' (1965) by [[Garrett Hardin]] |
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+ | ==Dutch translation of population density excerpt== | ||
+ | "In de dagen vóór Pasteur werd de wereldbevolking van generatie op generatie min of meer op peil gehouden door een cybernetisch systeem waarin het belangrijkste feedbackelement aan de bovengrens ziekte was. De massa-ziekten - pokken, cholera, tyfus, pest, enz. - worden door de ecologen bestempeld als 'dichtheid-afhankelijke factoren', waarvan de effectiviteit bij het afnemen van de bevolking een machtsfunctie is van de dichtheid van de bevolking. Geen enkele bevolkingstoename kon uit de hand lopen zolang de massa-ziekten niet waren overwonnen, wat betekent dat een mens nooit hoefde te oordelen over een ander mens om te beslissen wie mag aanschuiven bij het feest van de Natuur en wie niet." --[[Nature and Man's Fate]] (1965) door Garrett Hardin | ||
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"In the days before Pasteur man's population was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a cybernetic system in which the principal feedback element at the upper limit was disease. The crowd-diseases — smallpox, cholera, typhoid, plague, etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "density-dependent factors," whose effectiveness in reducing population is a power function of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --Nature and Man's Fate (1965) by Garrett Hardin |
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Nature and Man's Fate (1965) is a book by Garrett Hardin.
Dutch translation of population density excerpt
"In de dagen vóór Pasteur werd de wereldbevolking van generatie op generatie min of meer op peil gehouden door een cybernetisch systeem waarin het belangrijkste feedbackelement aan de bovengrens ziekte was. De massa-ziekten - pokken, cholera, tyfus, pest, enz. - worden door de ecologen bestempeld als 'dichtheid-afhankelijke factoren', waarvan de effectiviteit bij het afnemen van de bevolking een machtsfunctie is van de dichtheid van de bevolking. Geen enkele bevolkingstoename kon uit de hand lopen zolang de massa-ziekten niet waren overwonnen, wat betekent dat een mens nooit hoefde te oordelen over een ander mens om te beslissen wie mag aanschuiven bij het feest van de Natuur en wie niet." --Nature and Man's Fate (1965) door Garrett Hardin