The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
BARRY COMMONERFinally, 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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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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No action is without its side effects.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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