In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
BARRY COMMONERAs 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.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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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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Everything is connected to everything else.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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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.
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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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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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