If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
BARRY COMMONERThe proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in 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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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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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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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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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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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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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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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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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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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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