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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Barry Commoner

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Environmental Risk Running
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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 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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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Environmental Hazards Independent
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
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Environmental Suicidal Warning
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use

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