Garrett Hardin Quotes
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science, vol. 162, no. 3859, 1968, p. 1247.
The British Prime Minster was supporting the partition of India so there would be an independent Muslim Pakistan which India had the power to do before they granted independence, Nehru told him that this would be against the wishes of the majority Hindus of India and therefore Attlee should reconsider. But to not have a Muslim independent state would mean compelling the Muslims to be in a unified country which they opposed. So while Nehru's point was well taken, there was no way that Attlee could do anything that would not involve compulsion of at least one of the two major factions in India, and as things would turn out, both sides felt compelled and limited their cooperation with each other and the British.
Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of human overpopulation. He is most known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons, in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable.":112 He is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist, whose publications were "frank in their racism and quasi-fascist ethnonationalism".
