The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
BARRY COMMONERWorld War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
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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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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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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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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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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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