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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.

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Inheritance Law Technology
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Agriculture Answers Energy
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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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts

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