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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Barry Commoner

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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
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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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem

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