Garrett Hardin Population Quotations

If our goal is to maximize population it is obvious what we must do: We must make the work calories per person approach as close to zero as possible.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

One simple fact proves that none has: there is no prosperous population in the world today that has, and has had for some time, a growth rate of zero.