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.
BARRY COMMONERThe proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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 AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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