“Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.”

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

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.

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.

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

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.

The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

No action is without its side effects.

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.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

Have you ever played a video game that didn’t have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills.

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.

There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.