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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 age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
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
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
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known 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
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 environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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Earth Day Environmental Survival

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