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

Barry Commoner

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
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
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
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
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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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Environmental Suicidal Warning
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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Environmental Hazards Independent

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

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