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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

Barry Commoner

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
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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Gaps Needs Technology
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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Air Epa Method Progress
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
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
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
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 ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

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