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

Barry Commoner

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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Environmental Risk Running
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager 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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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 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
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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
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
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem

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