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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.

Barry Commoner

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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 Need Powerful
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
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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Gaps Needs Technology
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
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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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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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Profound Technology War
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
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
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

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