Garrett Hardin
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"Garrett James Hardin" was an United States/American ecologist who warned of the dangers of overpopulation. His exposition of the tragedy of the commons, in a famous 1968 paper in Science (journal)/Science, called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "You cannot do only one thing", which "modestly implies that there is at least one unwanted consequence".

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You can never do merely one thing.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.