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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

Barry Commoner

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
BARRY COMMONER

Earth Day Environmental Survival
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
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 environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
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
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.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Art Law Medicine
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

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