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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law 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
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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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Inheritance Law Technology
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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Doctors Teacher Views
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay

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