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Garrett Hardin

American

April 21, 1915

Environmentalist

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You cannot do only one thing.

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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

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

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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.

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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.

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

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