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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

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Profound Technology War
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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
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
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
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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 Teacher Views
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts

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