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

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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
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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
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Differences Feel Good People
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

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

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