Garrett Hardin

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5 total works indexed

1. AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility

   · 2009 · cited 22,527x

2. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 19,320x

3. The Tragedy of the Commons

   · 1968 · cited 17,687x

4. Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

   · 2011 · cited 13,750x

5. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,054x

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Quotes

• “The class of "No technical solution problems" has members. My thesis is that the "population problem," as conventionally conceived, is a member of this class.”
• “A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.”
• “Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit -- in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”
• “Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?”
• “The overall system of a sizeable community struggling to survive in a crowded world may be either socialism or privatism. Either system may work, more or less. But, except in non-critical areas of distribution, commonism cannot possibly work for very long.”
• “Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.”

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Key dates

Born

21 April 1915

Died

14 September 2003

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Garrett

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Dallas

Place of death

Santa Barbara

Occupation

microbiologist

Educated at

University of California, Santa Barbara

Employer

University of California, Santa Barbara

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

tragedy of the commons

Field of work

human overpopulation

Political ideology

white nationalism

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