Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
BARRY COMMONERWorld War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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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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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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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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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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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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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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 every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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