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.
BARRY COMMONERIf 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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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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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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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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 modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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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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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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No action is without its side effects.
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