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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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

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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

BARRY COMMONER

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Agriculture Answers
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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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
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Growing Simple Triumph
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Medicine
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.

BARRY COMMONER

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.
BARRY COMMONER

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

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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Tunnels Way
No action is without its side effects.

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No action is without its side effects.
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Sides
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.

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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Fads Lasts
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Known
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Command Scientist
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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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 Views
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Larger Planets
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental Years
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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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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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

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