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

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
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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Environmental Suicidal Warning
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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Child Children Economic Labor
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
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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

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