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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

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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 signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
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
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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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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Environmental Suicidal Warning
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
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
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets

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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