Why are ecologists and envi... by Garrett Hardin, an American Environmentalist

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“Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.”

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Name: Garrett Hardin

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Apr 21, 1915

Date of Death: Sep 14, 2003

Profession: Environmentalist

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

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