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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.

Barry Commoner

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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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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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Environmental Hazards Independent
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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.
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Inheritance Law Technology
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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Environmental Suicidal Warning
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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Development Prevention Technology
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
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Differences Feel Good People
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.

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