The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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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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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is connected to everything else.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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No action is without its side effects.
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