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

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
BARRY COMMONER

Disease Environmental Pollution
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
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
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
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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Agriculture People Sick
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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
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

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