Garrett Hardin

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. ”

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? ”

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort. ”

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights. ”

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ”

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality. ”

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart. ”

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. ”

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. ”

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. ”