Garrett Hardin Population

Throughout history there have been many examples of tragedy of the commons. Tragedy of the commons is when people in a certain area over exploit a common resource which leads toa higher problem. Tragedy of the commons normally happens when people get greedy and get more than they really need. For example, if one farmer is public grazing area were to add a cow over the limit the field can sustain it won’t do much damage but if the other farmers also add another cow to the field it could end up harming it to the point where it is no longer usable.This comes to show that if even a single person becomes greedy it could ruin so many things for other people. Ideas will be pulled out from Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons” to be used in this essay.

This paper can be an excellent source for anyone researching into how to fight overpopulation. Hardin provides several other viewpoints that show he did not selectively choose evidence or distort it. Hardin proceeds from point to point logically which allowed the reader to comprehend the main idea effortlessly. The author glided to how the people of poor

Greater populations will take its toll on the environment and rich nations giving poorer nations food, allowing their population to grow unchecked will lower the standard of living of those that are already there and in the end will have a negative effect. Hardin then presents a good alternative to just giving poorer nations food free. He cites the ancient Chinese proverb: "Give a man a fish and he will ear for a day; teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his days." This idea has already been put to use by people developing "miracle wheat", which is wheat that offer bigger harvests and greater resistance to crop damage.

While appealing to humanitarian causes, this plan can lead to what Hardin calls “the tragedy of the commons”. Because the resources are equally distributed with equal access, no one person is in control. This can lead to abusing and overexploiting the resources. A real-world example of this theory is the World Food Bank. The World Food Bank was a suggestion that rich countries donate food to the bank and in an emergency any country could withdraw from it. Hardin argues that such a bank would perpetuate the cycle of world hunger and it would deplete the world of its natural resources, only making the problem

At first Hardin’s ethics seem rude and selfish, but as you continue reading he makes it clear this may be the only way to save our world and have it become a better place. For instance, "on the average poor countries undergo a 2.5 percent increase in population each year; rich countries, about 0.8 percent. If the poor countries received no food from the out side, the rate of their population growth […]" (Hardin 4). Hardin continues his piece explaining why rich countries should not help poorer countries that are in need. He believes a poor country that needs support needs to learn the hard way, even if that means losing resources or people. His words like "rich countries", "no food" shows the use of a metaphor that Hardin is able to paint a visual illustration of his argument to his audience. This helps influence and persuade his readers because they are able to grasp the whole concept of Hardin’s argument. Hardin also spoke in his essay using the repetition of the words "we" and "us" is a language factor that persuades the audience to accept Hardin’s ideas because it implicates that he and his audience is of equal status. Here, the ethics he reveals in his essay have good reasoning. Helping someone in need has always been a moral in someone’s life. But now, Hardin proposes a new ethic, "lifeboat ethics". Singer, on the other hand, often refers to the fact that nearly one-third of Americans spend their income on luxuries that they “desire” instead of donating the

The understanding of Cultural Competency is the beginning of many topics of discussion within today’s society. A broad definition of cultural competency would be one that described in its entirety a specific set of behaviors. These behaviors come in many forms, such as behavior, actions, beliefs, and our religions. Cultural competency would be acknowledging those behaviors even when they are not the same as one another (2014, July 10).

Garrett Hardin was an ecologist who recognized the damage that humans have caused to communal resources, such as ocean waters and the atmosphere, in his 1968 essay The Tragedy of the Commons.

Define culture: Culture refers to beliefs, values and norms of a group of people from a particular ethnic or cultural background. Even though each culture has their unique characters, but there are elements common to all human cultures. By definition, this is what we call “cultural universal”. For instance, fear of supernaturals, food, clothing, money, education etc. There are ethnocentric people, who believe that their culture or ethnic group is superior to all others. The Nazi Germany back in 1931 wanted to transmit the idea that the German race were of a superior race than all races around the globe. More often than not this kind of cultural globalization can create conflict and tension among nations.

In the article “ Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”, Garrett Hardin (1974) argues that wealthy people should not be responsible for the poor and that the consequences of feeding the poor are detrimental to the environment and to the society as a whole. Hardin was a well known philosopher and ecologist. He earned his bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1936 and also earned his doctorate degree in microbiology from Stanford University in 1941 (Garrett Hardin, n.d.). The main issue that he tackled was human overpopulation and one of the books that he wrote that analyzed this issue was called ‘How Global Population Growth Threatens Widespread Social Disorder’(1992). Because the author has a sufficient

Carrying Capacity in the dictionary is defined as “the maximum, equilibrium number of organisms of a particular species that can be supported indefinitely in a given environment.” There are two theories about population growth and our species carrying capacity. They are called the Malthusian and Marxist theories. Malthusian discusses a linear relationship between population and food. That population has exponentially grown since the industrial revolution and food/housing only grows linearly since we only have a limited amount. Marxist discusses an exponential relationship that both grow exponentially due to technology. Marxist so far has been right and due to technology we have been able to sustain our population. Leopold also has a theory as he said “health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal.”(258) Marxist theory would be wrong compared to Leopold’s theory because technology has created pollution and pollution has interrupted the cycle for many ecosystems no longer allowing for self-renewal. Pushing our species past it’s carrying

Now the animals have to compete with the humans for food and space but as time passes by the humans begin to dominate food and space for example they pollute the fish’s river ad began using the bear cubs as footballs. This eventually caused the animals to move out of the area. This was analogous to Hardin key assumption that if there are more people in the finite world then each person will get less since we cannot maximize the carry capacity of an ecosystem and satisfy every person’s

Garrett Hardin, talks about population control, which is a big situation in many cases. He asks many questions, if it is morally right to change the way, society works. He talks about mostly about breeding rights. He questions, if those who over breeding are pushing their community to extinction. If a population over populates, the more demand they need for shelter, food and money. Which in some essentials, cannot work because of the area they are in. The more populated the more will starve and die. It is great to have more people in the world, but to put people at risk isn’t a question. Therefore, there must be control to keep issues from going out of hand.

He says that if the poor can always draw on a World Food Bank in times of need, their population can continue to grow unchecked. This isn’t a necessary valid statement. Also, saying if the poor can always draw on a World Food Bank in times of need, the World Food Bank will have fewer resources, meaning he doesn’t think that sharing the resources would turn out to be a terrible thing. Hardin thinks that the poor will take and give nothing in return, which is not true. As from the article, the poor will give by being cheap labor.

In The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin proposes that the problem of population exists in a pool of problems without a technical solution. In particular, he notes that the infinitude of space fails to be a solution to the problem of over population. He strikes down opposition to this argument swiftly, citing one of his other publications as a defense. I take issue with this negative claim and explore ways in which the over-population problem as it pertains to modern humanity could be solved in the long term via inter-planetary colonization. In particular, I cite SpaceX's work toward colonizing Mars as the basis for the inductive argument that such colonization will allow humanity access to an effectively infinite amount of land and resources.

Garrett Hardin was a controversial ecologist who believed that overpopulation was going to bring a downfall to a world of limited resources. Each nation was compared to a lifeboat with the rich being inside the boat and the poor in the water, drowning (Hardin, 561). He wrote the “Lifeboat Ethics” in 1974 when Ethiopia was having a starvation problem. Hardin’s opinion about the situation was that sending aid to Ethiopia was only making the problem worse and by feeding the people would aid overpopulation; the root to the problem. Hardin’s thesis developed from the notion that the rich should do nothing to help the poor. He believed that one