Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
BARRY COMMONERWorld War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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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 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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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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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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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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