As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
BARRY COMMONERIn certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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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.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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No action is without its side effects.
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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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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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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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