Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
BARRY COMMONER
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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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 signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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 modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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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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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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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 AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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