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.
BARRY COMMONERIn 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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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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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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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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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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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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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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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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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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