Sep 02 2009
Garrett Hardin?
Hey,
I was looking through the study guide and the reading, and I was wondering if someone could clear up or add some information regarding the following people’ s contributions to society:
Garrett Hardin: “Tragedy of the Commons” (which says that when an area is exploited the same way by every individual, then the area will be unsustainable.)
Ernst Haeckl: ?
Arthur B. Tansley: ?
Barry Commoner: Four Laws: 1) everything is connected to everything else; 2) everything goes somewhere; 3) everything goes somewhere else; 4) there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Lady Bird Johnson: 1st Lady who worked from the White House for the beautification of landscapes/conservation of natural resources
Ansel Adams: preserve the scenic value?
Thanks!
Aditi, you can find both of those scientists in the environmentalism article.
Earnst Haeckel was a German zoologist, a Darwinian, who coined the term “ecology” as “the many and various relations of plants and animals to each other and to their environment” in 1879.
Arthur B. Tansley studied the interconnectedness of communities called an “ecosystem” in 1935