If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
BARRY COMMONER
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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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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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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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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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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