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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Barry Commoner

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 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 Energy
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
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
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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Environmental Hazards Independent
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Environmental Risk Running

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