Nature and Man's Fate
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| - | '''Garrett James Hardin''' (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American [[ecologist]] and [[philosopher]] who warned of the dangers of [[human overpopulation]]. His exposition of the [[tragedy of the commons]], entitled "[[The Tragedy of the Commons]]", published in 1968 in ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable." | + | '[[Nature and Man's Fate]]'' (1965) is a book by [[Garrett Hardin]]. |
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| - | * [[Bioethics]] | + | |
| - | * [[Commonize costs–privatize profits game]] | + | |
| - | * [[Earth system science]] | + | |
| - | * [[Human overpopulation]] | + | |
| - | * [[Lifeboat ethics]] | + | |
| - | * [[Multiculturalism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Ratchet effect]] | + | |
| - | * [[Taboo]] | + | |
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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.
