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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

Barry Commoner

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Profound Technology War
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 age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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
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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Achievement Air Cities
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
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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Agriculture People Sick
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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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Doctors Teacher Views
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

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