Garrett Hardin

Quotes by Garrett Hardin

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Ecologist · American · 1915–2003

American ecologist (1915–2003)

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“[I]f a pasture is run as a commons open to all, the right of each to use it is not matched by an operational responsibility to take care of it.”
— Garrett Hardin