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Barry Commoner

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
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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Child Children Economic Labor
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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

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