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...his challenges to widely held assumptions are bound to stir the reader's thoughts... --Scientific American Garrett Hardin has once again turned his delightful brilliance loose on the purpose and effectiveness of government in a democracy, the protection of each from all and all from each. No one feeds the intellectual fires of ecology's role in government better than Hardin. Rich in history, ethics, etymology, Hardin specializes in breaking the manacles of history, phrase and thought that seem to condemn us to the cheapening of people and the impoverishment of habitat through growth in human numbers. Hardin offers an exciting glimpse of ourselves at the moment and shows us all that history need not flow inevitably to chaos. --G.M. Woodwell, Director, Woods Hole Research Center Sure to stimulate debate. --Booklist A learned, witty, and controversial book evaluating contemporary ethical assumptions regarding population planning and world population growth. --Library Journal With clear logic and imaginative insight, Garrett Hardin has again given us a strong helping hand in the unending task of overcoming denial of the tough issues in population, economics, and ethics. --Herman E. Daly, Professor School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

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Garrett Hardin is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The founder of the field of human ecology, he is the author of the seminal essay ""The Tragedy of the Commons,"" which has been reprinted in over 100 anthologies, and the book Living Within Limits (Oxford), which won the 1993 Award in Science from the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He lives in Santa Barbara.

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