Living_in_a_Lifeboat

Living in a Lifeboat In his 1974 paper titled “Living on a Lifeboat”, Garrett Hardin reduces growing populations and immigration to a metaphor of living in a lifeboat. The premise of the paper is that each country is like a lifeboat, only capable of handling a certain number of people. Once that capacity is reached, there runs a risk of upsetting the balance, and overturning the lifeboat, or society. If the lifeboat is already at capacity, then no more can be let on the boat, as well as no more can be born on the boat, until there occurs a death, creating a space for someone new. The United States is a lifeboat, and there are many people foundering in the ocean, wanting a chance to board our lifeboat, since it would yield a good, fruitful life. However, admitting many people would be detrimental to the health and success of the lifeboat. Of course, with this idea, there arises many ethical and moral issues, along with the practical. These can be looked at through many viewpoints, but the most favorable one is the viewpoint of oneself, and your own survival. Since Hardin proposes that the United lifeboat, people, while, idea, children, since, increasing, food, first, wisdom, thus, swift, seems, populations, parents, one, number, living, hardin, class, capacity, aboard, yes, world, whole, way, viewpoint, very, upper, until, united, titled, take, survive, survival