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Garrett Hardin
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American ecologist (1915–2003)
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Garrett Hardin was an American ecologist, statistician, university teacher and microbiologist, born in Dallas on 21 April 1915. He was educated at the University of Chicago, Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, which later employed him.
His field of work covered ecology and human overpopulation, and his notable work is the tragedy of the commons. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, held a political ideology described as white nationalism, and had interests including abortion, nature conservation, creationism and eugenics. Hardin lived with post-polio syndrome and died by suicide, from intoxication, in Santa Barbara on 14 September 2003.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 21 Apr 1915
- Died
- 14 Sep 2003
- Works
- 43
Top works
- American Earth
- Science, conflict, and society
- 39 steps to biology: readings from Scientific American
- Population politics
- Biology, its principles and implications
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,160x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,416x
- The Tragedy of the Commons
· 1968 · cited 17,878x
- Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation
· 2011 · cited 14,055x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,848x
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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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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
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- tragedy of the commons
- Field of work
- human overpopulation
- Political ideology
- white nationalism
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- date of birth
- 1915-04-21
- date of death
- 2003-09-14
- manner of death
- Suicide
- name in native language
- Garrett Hardin
- cause of death
- intoxication
- interested in
- opposition to immigration
- medical condition
- post-polio syndrome
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