Garrett Hardin

Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was a controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas who was most known for his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the commons. He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Ecology, which states "You cannot do only one thing."

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April 21 - 1915 - September 14 - 2003 - Ecologist - Dallas, Texas - Tragedy of the commons

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Hardin received a B.S. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1936 and a PhD in microbiology from Stanford University in 1941. He served as Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1963 until his retirement in 1978.

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Zoology - University of Chicago - Microbiology - Stanford University - University of California, Santa Barbara

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Hardin's last book The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia (1999), a warning about the threat of overpopulation to the Earth's sustainable economic future, called for coercive constraints on "unqualified reproductive rights" and argued that affirmative action is a form of racism.

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