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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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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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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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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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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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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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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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