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Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.
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(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)
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Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.
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Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.
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Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.
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The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.
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The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
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In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
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What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?
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The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.
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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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[One must show the greatest respect towards] any thing that increases exponentially, no matter how small.
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Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
April 21, 1915
Died:
September 14, 2003
(aged 88)
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