Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

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

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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in...

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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time,...

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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession...

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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it...

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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for...

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

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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what...

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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest...

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts...

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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling...

You cannot do only one thing.

You cannot do only one thing.

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The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the...

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions,...

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions,...

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges...

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit...

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.