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

Barry Commoner

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
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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Development Prevention Technology
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Environmental Issues Links
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
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
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
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Inheritance Law Technology

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