It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
BARRY COMMONERIt 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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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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No action is without its side effects.
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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 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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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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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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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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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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