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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.

Barry Commoner

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
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
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
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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Differences Feel Good People
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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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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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