“Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.” HumansEarthMovingExploitationProgression Book:Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos Source: Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
“Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.” EarthParticularConceptsResourcesPropertyFavorsPollutionExhaustingPrivate Property Book:The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons Source: The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons
“The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.” IfsShouldMeanLongEndsAbleEarthMotherSoundPowerfulEnvironmentAchievementSightSmellWildernessExquisiteVigorousGood HealthMother EarthSave Mother Earth Author:Garrett Hardin