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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

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Environment Lunch Nature
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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Agriculture People Sick
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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
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
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
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
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
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
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
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology

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