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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Barry Commoner

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Profound Technology War
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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Child Children Economic Labor
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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Earth Day Environmental Survival
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Agriculture Answers Energy
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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Environmental Need Powerful
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

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