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

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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 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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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
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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance

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