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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.

Barry Commoner

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.
BARRY COMMONER

Environmental Need Powerful
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
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
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.
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Profound Technology War
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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 AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
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
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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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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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