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People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

— Garrett Hardin

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

Filters Against Folly (1985)

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Tragedy of the Commons (1968)

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

The Immigration Dilemma (1995)

The class of "No technical solution problems" has members. My thesis is that the "population problem," as conventionally conceived, is a member of this class.

Tragedy of the Commons (1968)

[I]f a pasture is run as a commons open to all, the right of each to use it is not matched by an operational responsibility to take care of it.

The Immigration Dilemma (1995)

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If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.

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