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

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by a taboo.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

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

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

The mathematics of biological reproduction is logically identical with the mathematics of usury. Money earns interest, animals have babies. In

You cannot do only one thing.

We see only what we have names for.

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

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.