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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Barry Commoner

Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

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