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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.

Barry Commoner

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 Quality Simple
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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Environmental Need Powerful
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 proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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 Energy
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
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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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Environmental Risk Running
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
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 Technology
The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning that we must discover the source of this suicidal drive and master it before it destroys the environment-and ourselves.
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Environmental Suicidal Warning

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