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

Barry Commoner

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Profound Technology War
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 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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
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
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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Development Prevention Technology
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Art Law Medicine

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