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"The underlying problem is that we didn't evolve to avoid population
bottlenecks -- we evolved to profit by them.

Garrett Hardin wrote The Tragedy of the Commons back on the 60's. In the 40
years since it was written, millions (my guess) of students and researchers
have read and cited that paper. Nevertheless, the destruction of the
commons continues apace... We have no "avoid population bottlenecks" genes.

Evolution theory and history tell us that we will do nothing to avoid the
bottleneck and then fight to the death over the last of the resources".

Jay Hanson
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