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

Barry Commoner

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
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
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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
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 proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Environment Lunch Nature
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph

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

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