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"We fail to mandate economic sanity," writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neglected problem of overpopulation, making a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in and manage our world. Our world itself, he writes, is in the dilemma of the lifeboat: it can only hold a certain number of people before it sinks--not everyone can be saved. The old idea of progress and limitless growth misses the point that the earth (and each part of it) has a limited carrying capacity; sentimentality should not cloud our ability to take necessary steps to limit population. But Hardin refutes the notion that goodwill and voluntary restraints will be enough. Instead, nations where population is growing must suffer the consequences alone. Too often, he writes, we operate on the faulty principle of shared costs matched with private profits. In Hardin's famous essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," he showed how a village common pasture suffers from overgrazing because each villager puts as many cattle on it as possible--since the costs of grazing are shared by everyone, but the profits go to the individual. The metaphor applies to global ecology, he argues, making a powerful case for closed borders and an end to immigration from poor nations to rich ones. "The production of human beings is the result of very localized human actions; corrective action must be local....Globalizing the 'population problem' would only ensure that it would never be solved." Hardin does not shrink from the startling implications of his argument, as he criticizes the shipment of food to overpopulated regions and asserts that coercion in population control is inevitable. But he also proposes a free flow of information across boundaries, to allow each state to help itself. "The time-honored practice of pollute and move on is no longer acceptable," Hardin tells us. We now fill the globe, and we have no where else to go. In this powerful book, one of our leading ecological philosophers points out the hard choices we must make--and the solutions we have been afraid to consider.
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Spaceship economics and other interesting concepts........2007-07-02
The problem of population is one of regulating human behavior. He explains several concepts:
1- Cowboy vs spaceship economics.
2- The Malthus demostat.
3- Exponential growth at a small rate and the carrying capacity of Planet Earth
4- Our world is finite
5- There will never be a perpetual motion machine
A great thinker on ecology and human population.
A marvellous book distinguished by Hardin's superb clarity of thought.......2007-06-20
1st edition, reissued (1995), 311 pages
This is another of the twenty books that Charlie Munger recommends in the 2nd edition of Poor Charlie's Almanack (which I cannot recommend more highly). When a very widely read and highly effective thinker like Munger gets to eighty years old and recommends a list of just twenty books, I think one would be justified in expecting all of them to be pretty good.
Even so, as I make my way through his list I find myself pleasantly surprised at just how good some of them are. The clarity of thought Hardin demonstrates in this book is simply superb.
There is an important difference comparing this book to most others. Because so much of his subject matter (the subtitle is: `Ecology, Economics and Population Taboos') is smeared over by taboo and emotion, Hardin appears to have decided that in order to deal with this problem he also needs to demonstrate how to think properly.
Thus it is really two books in one: a manual on how to think effectively and a treatise on his chosen subject. For example, he hammers home the importance of default positions to provide the foundation for critical judgement (in economics: there's no such thing as a free lunch; in psychology: reward determines behaviour; in ecology: and then what?).
I am left with a feeling of gratitude towards both Munger and Hardin - without either of whom I would not have read this marvellous book.
With this book you can have a whole education career .......2006-10-29
I must first say I have not finished reading the book. Part of the reason its that I always start again while Im half way through.
This books educates you, in the highest sense of the word, and I am not talking about having to make your mind up about any stand in population control that may be in direct confrontation with your religious beliefs. This book is not about that.
It educates because it teaches you logical thinking, fallacies, numerative, narrative and ecological thinking, history of economic thought, of philosophy of progress. All in chunk-bit sizes, so I would say that even with a university degree, this book has made re-think, re-explore and adequate my thought to a multiple of tools I have not used in a long time.
Its most profound method, which I have not seen in de Bono and the like, is how to address critical issues by:
- Chosing the right words (Rhethoric has been the most overused tool)
- Chosing the right numbers (Please read What the Numbers Tell)
- Chosing the right system of growth (if you decide to do something, see the consequences please!!!)
By reading history, you can see all type of blunders that have resulted form not using in balance the following tools. History? take a look around you, we are not better of than our forefathers eventhough now we can have this tools to guide us.
Since this is a book that teaches how to think, I can clearly see now how it can be so underrated and not be required reading at all levels. Maybe, because the theme of population is brought on, and due to the taboos we have about it, as well as our hopes, etc. this can overcloud the relevance as an educational tool.
Demostat vs. Thermostat and Other Numerate, and Ecology Insights.......2006-07-20
Though the main emphasis is on the population sustaining aspects of our environment and planet, one would miss other economical, numerate, and ecological insights that the sharp mind of Garrett Hardin provides with all of his writing. As a follow-up (in my mind) to Filters of Folly, Hardin again demonstrates his sharp insights on a multitude of endeavors that just don't relate to population. Some anecdotes include economic discussions on scale factors, human nature of foxes and hedgehogs, compound interests as the eighth wonder, Islamic thoughts on usury, law of diminishing returns, one can never merly do one thing, and etc..
Whether you consider yourself an Economist, Ecologist, Environmentalist, or just your average Autodidact, one can can surely benefit from Hardin's thoughts.
Garrett Hardin and the Freedom of Limits.......2005-08-22
This book is essential reading. As someone lucky enough to have called Garrett Hardin my friend, I was once with him at one of his book signings in Santa Barbara, California. As two rather prosperous looking young women rushed by his display table, one said to the other: "`Limits'--I don't like it!" After which Hardin turned to me with a twinkle in his eye and said, "You see, she just summarized my whole problem." But one of the things that Professor Hardin is still teaching us, through his books and his students, is that once we accept the fact that the world has real ecological limits--for example, we stop assuming that we can cram a quarter-billion people into America, or that affordable substitutes for finite resources like oil and topsoil will be generated magically by the marketplace--the quality of our lives will actually improve. It is something like the little boy who has many scattered ambitions, from cowboy to Superman, upon reaching maturity being able to focus in on the adventure of passionately pursuing life's real possibilities. In his own life Hardin was anything but grim. Garrett Hardin just wanted to help our society grow up and, as said in Corinthians, put away childish things.
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Get your hands on the hottest tool for bringing the most sensitive workplace diversity issues out in the open. Still Talkin' Diversity is a great way to examine up-close issues frequently ignored by other diversity training—and an even greater way to promote acceptance, understanding, and accommodation of all differences in the workplace.
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Three recombinant soybean cysteine proteinase inhibitors (rSCPIs), L1, R1 and N2, were assessed for their potential to inhibit the growth and development of three major agricultural crop pests known to utilize digestive cysteine proteinases: Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, WCR), Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata, CPB) and cowpea weevil (Callosobruchus maculatus, CW). In vitro experiments showed that cysteine proteinase activities in the crude gut extracts of the WCR, CPB, and CW were inhibited to various degrees by the three rSCPIs. Of the three rSCPIs tested, N2 was most effective in inhibiting the crude gut extract of WCR, CPB, and CW (50% inhibition at 5x10^-^8, 5x10^-^8, and 3x10^-^7 M, respectively). The L1 was the least potent of the three CPIs tested, with 50% inhibition at 5x10^-^6 M of the crude gut extracts of WCR. Results of in vivo experiments conducted to assess the effect of the three rSCPIs on the vital growth parameters of WCR, CPB and CW were consistent with results of the in vitro experiments.
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This book resulted from a SETAC-sponsored conference that offered scientists, regulators, and risk managers an opportunity to help define ecological risk assessment (ERA) guidelines based on scientific principles and to refine field and laboratory methods to be responsive to the needs of risk assessors. These peer-reviewed and -critiqued proceedings review the emerging federal and state guidelines, offer suggestions for risk managers, and detail scientific approaches to conduct ERAs that have been used successfully in terrestrial and aquatic environments.
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47 Holy Grails—or, the Last Instruction Book You'll
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The X-Factor. The Gate. Golf-O-Metrics and Square-to-Square, Tour Tempo and the Pinch. For every golfer, at every level, hope springs eternal—that there's a secret or two out there that will take your game to an entirely new level.
Well here they are—forty-seven revolutionary keys to playing golf extremely well. Culled from teachers, players, pioneers, scientists, savants, and obsessives, George Peper's
The Secret of Golf addresses every aspect of the game, from mechanics to what's inside the golfer's head. Includes hundreds of instructional photographs and diagrams.
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very entertaining for golf nuts .......2007-06-10
if you read this book in one sitting and then go to the golf course for a round , you might not break 120 . however , if you read selected chapters and then try to apply the lessons you might make some real progress on your game . this book is not for beginners . this book is a compendium of " secrets " , some of which just might work , but it is no substitute for a good lesson from a qualified professional who can analyze your swing .
Highly Enjoyable Read .......2007-04-09
I was surprised at this book. It reads easy but not over simplified. A book you will want to lend to your friends.
Hints to improve your game.......2006-02-19
I enjoyed what this book had to offer. Rich with history and techniques. I liked the chapter on "Morrison's Secret" good photographs. Besides picking out the right type of clubs to use for your game, this book offers insight to the skill of the game. I still may fall apart in the back 9 , but this book helped me understand more about the game.
No shortage of secrets here.......2005-11-08
A terrific book, full of informative tips and instruction. Find the secret that works for you. If you can't find something here to help your game, then your game may just be beyond help.
This book is great if you're serious about golf........2005-10-19
And who isn't? I've been reading Golf and Golf Digest for years. Many times I've come across a tip that seemed ingenious or well-suited to my ill-arched swing and, of course, would be frustrated when, months later, I'd try to recall which issue a particular tip published and could never seem to remember. The Secret of Golf solves the problem of wishing you had a collection of the best tips and techniques introduced in the past 50 or so years. I found the photos to be cleanly demonstrative and the illustrations to be direct and easy to follow. Whether or not I'm able to implement the tips is another issue. I recommend this book!
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BradyGames' Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal Official Strategy Guide includes the following:
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When help was needed.......2007-05-08
My son was thrilled to learn the secrets of this game and be able to finally win. I think these type of guides are good so that the kids playing the game don't get discouraged and upset that they cannot get past an area, or know what to do.
gift.......2007-03-22
i got it as a gift and they havn't complained and it was shipped really fast so yay party
Great Game, Great Stragety Guide.......2005-07-22
This guide doesn't just help you beat the game, but gives you tips, maps, weapon description, armour description, a ship accessory list, and, of course, a whole behind the scences look at how the game was made. I actually got the stragety after I beat the game, and when I used it, I discovered all the secret unlocks and places that i did'nt even know exisited. This guide is defenitly worth the money!
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