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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Barry Commoner

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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
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
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
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Differences Feel Good People
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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Earth Day Environmental Survival
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
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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything

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