Ecologist Garrett Hardin is dead (double suicide with his wife). He wrote many books and popularized the term “Tragedy of the Commons.” Hardin was a peculiar figure today, somewhat out of place, a Republican who supported Planned Parenthood, and an environmentalist who was also a race realist. If I had to compare him to anyone of more note, it would be Margaret Sanger, whose eugenicist views have been papered over for several generations by Planned Parenthood but which she is always flogged for by pro-life activists. In a similar manner environmentalists are sometimes attacked for being racists, often in connection to the ideas that were popularized by Hardin relating to immigration restriction.
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