Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
BARRY COMMONERThe first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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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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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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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.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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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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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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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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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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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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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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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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No action is without its side effects.
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