From: John Hollingsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Herschel Hardin wrote about 'the tragedy of the commons' -- a theme which
>hyper-libertarian, free market zealots use to ground their claim that the
>only way forward for the environment was to privatize the water and air.
He
>was perhaps best known for his (in)famous contribution to debates of
>distributive ethics known as 'lifeboat ethics', i.e.you can only fit so
many
>people on Lifeboat Earth. Thus, any attempt to ameliorate the conditions
of
>those facing famine and death by starvation by redistribution would lead
>only to a prolonged a much worse crisis the next time.
This is self-evidently true. Feeding them WILL ultimately increase
starvation and death unless, as part of the deal, they are stopped
from reproducing.
>In my opinion, it is drivel.
It's Garrett Hardin, and perhaps you should read it again.
[ http://dieoff.org/page95.htm ]
I would be interested to know what exactly you see as "drivel".
>Millions have died because of the reality and nature of the economic system
>that currently exists. Why do you believe millions died because of Marx --
>forced collectivization of peasant agriculture in Russia? I don't
Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Jay
