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Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
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 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
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
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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 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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
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 Law Technology
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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