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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.

Barry Commoner

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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Environmental Need Powerful
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
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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Gaps Needs Technology
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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental
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
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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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
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
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
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
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Profound Technology War
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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