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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Barry Commoner

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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
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
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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Development Prevention Technology
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
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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Inheritance Law Technology

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

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