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.
BARRY COMMONERIt is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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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 AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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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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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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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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No action is without its side effects.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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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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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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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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