The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
BARRY COMMONERSeen 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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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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No action is without its side effects.
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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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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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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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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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Everything is connected to everything else.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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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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