Garrett Hardin - Human Quotes

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Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

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(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

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The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

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