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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

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

Environmental Thinking Understanding
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
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
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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Environmental Hazards Independent
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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

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