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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’

Barry Commoner

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
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
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Environment Lunch Nature
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Environmental Issues Links
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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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