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Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American ecologist and microbiologist.He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, [1] [2] [3] which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment ...
Hardin's work is criticised as historically inaccurate in failing to account for the demographic transition, [191] and for failing to distinguish between common property and open access resources. [ 192 ] [ 193 ] Radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen claims the tragedy of the commons is used as propaganda for private ownership .
This represented the CC–PP Game for Hardin in which the incentive to create individual profit was greater than the cost of overgrazing the field since it was spread out between many individuals. In a more modern example of the CC–PP Game, Hardin attributes the desertification of the Sahel desert to "unmanaged access and overuse." [1]
Harris County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Garrett Hardin has been charged in the July 2022 death of Roderick Brooks, 47, who was Black. Hardin’s attorney, Justin Keiter, as well as lawyers for ...
Hardin's seminal work serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of unchecked growth. The "tragedy" he describes occurs when individual interests overwhelm and deplete shared resources, leading to ...
Lifeboat ethics is a metaphor for resource distribution proposed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in two articles published in 1974, building on his earlier 1968 article detailing "The tragedy of the commons". Hardin's 1974 metaphor describes a lifeboat bearing fifty people with room for ten more. The lifeboat is in an ocean surrounded by a ...
The suit says Sgt. Garrett Hardin had a history of problems that the Harris County sheriff should have addressed, including the injury of a man one week earlier.
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