The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
BARRY COMMONER
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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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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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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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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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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No action is without its side effects.
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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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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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