A spaceship metaphor to describe earth would be that “no single person or institution has the right to destroy, waste, or use more than a fair share of its resources.” Hardin argues that the earth is not a spaceship because there is no “captain” for the earth or one controlling entity. Hardin describes the earth as being divided into rich countries and poor countries while rich countries are the on the lifeboat and poor countries are in the ocean struggling to survive and hoping to get on the lifeboat. Hardin asks the question, “How do you pick who gets on the boat”. If you let too many people onto the lifeboat, the resources might run out, diseases might spread, and the lifeboat sinks. Help a few people, guilt and the constant need to guard against people boarding arises. This problem of who gets help and who doesn’t get help leads to the need of population control. Maybe there are just too many …show more content…
Instead he’s advocating that more can be done to help people in poorer countries. He gives an example of how a lot more money is spent of questionable things such as the Anglo-French Concorde project which was projected to cost £440,000,000, while Britain to that date, had only given £14,750,000 to the East Bengal refugees. In addition, Hardin’s argument doesn’t prove that Singer is wrong because Singer accepts that giving and helping is important but controlling population growth is important as well. Singer says that “I accept that the earth cannot support indefinitely a population rising at the present rate… The conclusion that should be drawn is that the best means of preventing famine, in the long run, is population control”. This shows that Singer and Hardin agree on a few