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 COMMONERIt 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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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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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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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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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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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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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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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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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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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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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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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