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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 Meaningful
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.

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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Entering Environmental Simple
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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Growing Simple Triumph
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

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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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Medicine
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Command Scientist
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental Years
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.

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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Shirts
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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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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Doctors Views
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Environmental
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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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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Gaps Needs
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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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
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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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
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
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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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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Agriculture Answers
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

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