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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
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
By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
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
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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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