What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

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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 Firefighter
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental Years
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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Environmental
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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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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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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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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 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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.

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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Environmentalism Together
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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Tunnels Way
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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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.

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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.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’

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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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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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