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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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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Environmental Need Powerful
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Art Law Medicine
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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Environmental Suicidal Warning
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
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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Air Epa Method Progress
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
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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Environmental Hazards Independent
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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Development Prevention Technology
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

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