Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
BARRY COMMONERWorld War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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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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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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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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The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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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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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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