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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
BARRY COMMONER

Disease Environmental Pollution
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May 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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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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Doctors Teacher Views
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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known 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 arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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Agriculture People Sick
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

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