Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
BARRY COMMONEREnvironmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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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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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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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 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 environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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 concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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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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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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No action is without its side effects.
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