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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

Barry Commoner

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
BARRY COMMONER

Advice Die Information
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.
BARRY COMMONER

Agriculture Answers Energy
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
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
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
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
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides

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