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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Barry Commoner

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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Child Children Economic Labor
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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
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
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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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Gaps Needs Technology
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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Environmental Need Powerful
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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
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
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts

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