Garrett Hardin

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In the two stories "Lifeboat Ethics" and "A Modest Proposal" the topic of distribution of resources is brought up. Hardin, who has a more realistic mindset believes that the resources should be given to the people that will benefit him and the rest of the society. Hardin thinks that if the poor are already in trouble, then that is their loss and they can not get any better. It seems very harsh but he discussing his thoughts on the idea of the World Food Bank. He says that the food bank won't neccesarilly fix the world starvation but may cause other parts of the world that aren't struggling for food to suffer.

Hardin and Benjamin have many more differences in their essays than similarities in my opinion. Benjamin’s views on zero population growth, can sound ridiculous to some, but a strategy similar to this has been enforced in China since the 1970s. Hardin’s theory is to give people a better life to lower the birth rate. People in poor nations have higher birth rates to compensate for higher death rates. So, giving a better life would lower death rates and therefore lower birth rates. Our nation, despite our greatness, is not a self-sufficient one. Benjamin points out how our country is dependent on others for oil and other minerals. U.S manufacturers are now more than 40 percent dependent on imports of many commodity and rare earth metals (Perry, Mark). There are quite a few countries that dependent on the U.S. economically as well. The countries that benefit the most from economic ties with the U.S., and which therefore can be said to be most dependent upon the U.S. economically, are Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, China, and Israel, as well as the Bahamas and several Caribbean countries (Flom, Peter). Hardin holds Third World nations responsible for their own starvation and

Population and resource control is, and will be for quite some time, a very controversial subject. In Garrett Hardin’s paper “Lifeboat Ethics”, he makes the case against helping the underprivileged with a ‘World Foodbank’. He uses some statistics that are strung together with rhetoric masquerading as logic. In doing so, his argument falls short. To make the reader understand the extent of the current population crisis, he depends on the audience to experience guilt.

Garrett Hardin, biologist from Stanford, used the metaphor of Earth being a “spaceship” persuading other countries, industries and people to stop polluting and washing natural resources of the world. He illustrates that the “spaceship” is represented by the wealthy countries, and the natural resources are represented as the poorer countries of the world. The wealthy people of the world have all the resources they need to survive and more, while other hand the poorer countries are unfortunate. Their rations are broken up into smaller and smaller portions because of their growing population and it lessens the resources to everyone of that country. Hardin's argument is based on sharing. He proposes that the bigger countries should share what

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

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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.

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.

Ok so Hardin from the lifeboat ethics his main argument was about the overpopulation and he warn others about the population dangers. For example if in a place and if there is double the population that could be a problem. How because if there is too many people then we will have to built more houses and especially get more resources since there is gonna be a lot of people that are not gonna be as far so when this happens you are gonna have to share the resources now resources could be anything but one of them is food so if there is people starving and people starving around the corner then you will probably get your food stolen or there can even be riots or people killing each other over food. So pretty much there would be chaos all around

In 1974, Human Ecology Professor Garrett Hardin published his work Lifeboat Ethics: a Case against Helping the Poor. Throughout his essay Hardin uses rhetoric to defend his stance on how helping the poor doesn’t help anyone in the long run. He believes that aiding the poor actually hurts everyone globally. Hardin breaks his essay down between two major topics: food aid and immigration. Hardin argues that if rich counties provide food to poor ones, the poor countries will slowly drain the entire system and deplete all of the surplus food; and he also argues that if we were to allow open immigration to wealthy countries from poor counties we would ruin the environment because we would put an additional strain on the land to produce food and in order to increase food production we would need to clear other land, eliminating other resources we need. In order to back his argument Hardin uses the rhetorical devices logos and ethos.

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.

The consideration of preserving life with humanity requires a foundational ability to meet with adequately supplying enough resources to sustain continued support of essential supplies to provide for humanity’s needs. Undoubtedly, food and shelter encompasses a key part therein, as well as somehow maintaining a healthy form of living. What would it take to accurately assess everything is essentially what “The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin” (The Garrett Hardin Society, 2015, title) attempt has to cover in thoughtful analogy utilizing some commonsense mixed with a socialist view.

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

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