I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
BARRY COMMONERThe 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 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 concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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No action is without its side effects.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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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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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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