“Lifeboat Ethics”, the world that could be overpopulated, and the “Tragedy of the Commons” in order to persuade us in favor of his ideals. While he does have many good points in this Article, Hardin fails to elaborate on what he means by “Quality” immigrants and he does not ...
Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics
“In certain aspects, we have already exceeded the capacity of our land” (par.5). By demonstrating an intelligent tone and examining the morality of implementing a “Lifeboat Ethics” style of controlling the Earth’s population, Hardin makes effective use of each of the Ethos, Pathos and ...
Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor by Garrett Hardin, Psychology Today, September 1974 Environmentalists use the metaphor of the earth as a "spaceship" in trying to persuade countries, industries and people to stop wasting and polluting our natural resources. Since we a...
This determination for humanity to act within the strictures placed on itself by its own nature was what he called "lifeboat ethics." In order for the citizens of the rich countries to survive, many in the Third World would have to die. In this sense I characterize Hardin's sense of ...
This is the issue that is presented in the two essays - Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping The Poor,” and Peter Singer’s “What Should A Billionaire Give-and What Should You?” Garrett Hardin was an ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation. In ...