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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.

Barry Commoner

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
BARRY COMMONER

Advice Die Information
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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Differences Feel Good People
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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 Earth Firefighter People
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
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
By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
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 most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero

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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