Garrett Hardin (1915–2003)
Auteur van Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
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Garrett Hardin, an American scientist and prominent human ecologist, was born in Dallas, Texas. A victim of polio as a child, Hardin and his family moved around to various cities in the midwest before finally settling in Chicago, where he attended the University of Chicago, receiving a degree in toon meer zoology in 1936. At Chicago, Hardin was greatly influenced by several prominent teachers, including geologist J. Harlan Bretz, ecologist W. C. Allee, and philosopher-educator Mortimer Adler. He was given a full professorship at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1957 and later was also appointed professor of human ecology. Shortly after going to Santa Barbara, Hardin revised the school's biology curriculum and wrote a popular college textbook, Biology:Its Human Implications (1949) (revised in 1966 as Biology: Its Principles and Implications). At the same time, his interest shifted increasingly to genetics and evolution. In 1960 Hardin began teaching a course in human ecology, which examined the problem of population pressures on the earth's environment. He directly confronted the ethical implications of the problem, openly advocating legalizing abortion---then, as now, a highly charged and controversial topic. He lectured widely in the 1960s urging this cause, a campaign that helped pave the way for the later Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade (1973). In a widely publicized article in Science magazine in 1968, Hardin insisted that the control of population growth and pollution was essential to human survival and thus required worldwide limits on the individual's freedom to reproduce and to degrade the environment. He expounded these views in greater detail in a later work, Exploring New Ethics for Survival (1972). (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van Garrett Hardin
Filters Against Folly: How To Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent (1985) 116 exemplaren
Population, Evolution, and Birth Control: A Collage of Controversial Ideas (1969) — Redacteur — 47 exemplaren
Science and Controversy; Population, a Case Study 2 exemplaren
Science and Controversy Population 1 exemplaar
Population Evolution Birth Control 1 exemplaar
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The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Medewerker — 178 exemplaren
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- Hardin, Garrett
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- Hardin, Garrett James
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- 1915-04-21
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- 2003-09-14
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- ecologist
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Science, Conflict and Society: Readings from… door Garrett Hardin
A really interesting book. My copy is very old but THI principles such as overuse of pesticides, overpopulation with animal communities etc still seem very valid. Three stars
what are the words, what are the numbers, then what?
Hardin was an influential ecologist who expounded on "the tragedy of the commons" originally in 1968. He explains that in detail here and expands on the implications for us. As another reviewer pointed out, the book is more than 30 years old but it's still relevant and timely. Highly recommended.
Hardin is a neo-Malthusian that, like all Malthusians, was fond of using convoluted reasoning and half-truths to promote his cynical worldview while trying to reduce the human condition to a math problem. His work has always appealed to the misanthropic nihilism prevalent in the environmental movement. However, this particular work is far more comprehensive in its thinking than his earlier works Hardin brings up a lot of good points, like debunking human exceptionalism which is extant in both traditional religious thinking as well as modern environmentalism and this book gets you thinking "big picture" more than most. Like all Malthusian thought though the book is overly cynical and gives little credence to human ingenuity, adaptability, behavioral changes and technological discoveries that cannot be foreseen.… (meer)
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