Home The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin (1968) (table of contents) The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin, Science, 162(1968):1243-1248. At the end of a thoughtful article on the future of nuclear war, J.B. Wiesner and H.F. York concluded that: Both sides in the arms race areconfronted by the dilemma of steadily increasing military power and steadily decreasing national security.

Garrett Hardin Garrett Hardin is Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the author of numerous important books and articles on biology, ecology, and ethics. During the 1960s, he was know as Mr. Abortionist because of his championing of abortion in hundreds of speeches around the country. In 1959, he published the best-selling Nature and Man's ...