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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.

Barry Commoner

In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
BARRY COMMONER

Different Teenager Way
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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Agriculture People Sick
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
BARRY COMMONER

Doctors Teacher Views
By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
BARRY COMMONER

Age May Technology
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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Development Prevention Technology
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
BARRY COMMONER

Environment Fads Lasts
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use

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