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.
BARRY COMMONERNothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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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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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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No action is without its side effects.
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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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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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