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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.

Barry Commoner

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
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
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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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Environmental Risk Running
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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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Gaps Needs Technology

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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