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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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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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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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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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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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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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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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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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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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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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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