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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.

Barry Commoner

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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
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
If 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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Agriculture Answers Energy
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
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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Doctors Teacher Views
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Inheritance Law Technology
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem

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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