Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics Summary

In Garrett Hardin’s article “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor” (1974), the author discusses idea that individuals can share resources as all humans are equal and the lifeboat idea promotes sharing of resources. He utilizes the same concept to insist that rich countries should not help neither support the poor countries. First of all, Hardin, a human ecology writer and philosopher, attended the University of Chicago and Stanford University and taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Moreover, Hardin’s Books include Filters against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent (1985) and Living within Limits: How Global Population Growth Threatens Widespread Social Disorder