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Barry Commoner

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
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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 People Sick
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
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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

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