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.
BARRY COMMONERAll of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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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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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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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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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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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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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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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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