When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
BARRY COMMONER
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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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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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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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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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Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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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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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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 age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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