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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

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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 technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
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 AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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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Development Prevention Technology
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
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

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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