The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
BARRY COMMONERIf environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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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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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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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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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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