"We can never do merely one thing."

"Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons."


ecologist Garrett Hardin



Hardin was primarily concerned with "bioethical" issues such as overfishing and deforestation, but his work also brought attention to the personal-to-global effects of every decision and action (or inaction) -- think ripples in a pond, think Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum's "Chaos Theory" of the butterfly wings causing hurricanes... or think of The Fixx.