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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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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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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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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 technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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