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

Barry Commoner

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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 Vision War
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
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
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
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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Child Children Economic Labor
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War

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