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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.

Barry Commoner

In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
BARRY COMMONER

Different Teenager Way
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
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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
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 modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
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 gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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Gaps Needs Technology
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
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
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
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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Environmental Issues Links
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
BARRY COMMONER

Profound Technology War

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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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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