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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Barry Commoner

In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental
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
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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
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
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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding

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