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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.

Barry Commoner

Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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
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
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
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
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
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
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Differences Feel Good People
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
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
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
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

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.

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