The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
BARRY COMMONERThe AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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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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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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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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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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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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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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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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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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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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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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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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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.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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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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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 ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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