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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Barry Commoner

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.
BARRY COMMONER

Differences Feel Good People
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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
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
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
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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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Environmental Hazards Independent
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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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Agriculture People Sick
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
BARRY COMMONER

Disease Environmental Pollution

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

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