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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.

Barry Commoner

No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
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 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
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
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
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
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

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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