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

Barry Commoner

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
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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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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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Facts Vision War
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Environmental Issues Links
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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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Air Epa Method Progress
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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Irrational Reason Shirts
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

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

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