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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

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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Facts Vision War
By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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Agriculture Answers Energy
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
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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Doctors Teacher Views
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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Environmental Need Powerful
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
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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

Inheritance Law Technology
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Environmental Risk Running
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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Environment Lunch Nature

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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