Garrett Hardin, American ecologist, author, and academic (died 2003)

Garrett Hardin

American ecologist (1915–2003)

Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist and microbiologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage…