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.Garrett Hardin
Society does not need more children but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.
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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 only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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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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