Nature and Man's Fate  

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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 ongeveer constant gehouden door een cybernetisch systeem waarin het belangrijkste feedbackelement aan de bovengrens ziekte was. De massa-ziekten - pokken, cholera, tyfus, pest, enz. - zijn , door de ecologen bestempeld als 'dichtheid-afhankelijke factoren', waarvan de effectiviteit bij het verminderen van de populatie een machtsfunctie is van de dichtheid van de populatie. Geen enkele bevolkingstoename kon uit de hand lopen zolang de massa-ziekten niet waren overwonnen, wat betekent die man hoefde niet te oordelen over de mens, om te beslissen wie een dekking op het feest van de Natuur moet hebben en wie niet. " --Nature and Man's Fate (1965) door Garrett Hardin





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