Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics Analysis

In Garrett Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics” he explains that the world we live in is unequal and becoming increasingly poor. He tries to explain that if the poor isn’t controlled then the Earth will become overpopulated and unrestrained. I believe that Hardin’s writing of “Lifeboat Ethics” is effective and persuasive. His writing is persuasive because with every action to fix the poorness of our world he has a counter, Hardin uses numbers and percentages to show how the population increases of poor countries versus rich ones, and he also paints pictures in people’s heads very well. Two thirds of the population of earth is poor. Poor countries reproduce quicker than the rich ones making the poor people of the world multiply faster than the rich. Rich countries such as America have been trying to help by donating resources, offering immigration and using their money to help provide for poorer countries. Hardin believes that we shouldn’t just
When he starts he explains how if the world were a lifeboat there would be a third of the population on it and the rest swimming in the ocean. The lifeboat doesn’t have enough to fit the entire ocean of people, just a few. So the people on the lifeboat can let a few on by choice, let them all on, or leave them all. More than likely the lifeboat would choose to leave them because they want to ensure their own safety. Thus explains our world. Garrett Hardin had some great ideas for helping the world with the issue of the poor. People shouldn’t give things to other people, because nothing is free in life. Nations and the people in those Nations need to learn how to help themselves more than receive help from others. They need to save money and resources in case of a disaster, and they need to fix their own issues, with minimum help from others. Make your own decisions. Using these ideas people, and countries can succeed in