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

Barry Commoner

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
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
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
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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Environmental Need Powerful
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Art Law Medicine
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental

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