Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
Garrett HardinIndeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Garrett HardinThe only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.
Garrett HardinThe three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?
Garrett Hardin