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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

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
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
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
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
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
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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Agriculture People Sick
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
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
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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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Earth Day Environmental Survival
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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Development Prevention Technology

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