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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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Environmental Hazards Independent
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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

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