A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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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.
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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
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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.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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