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

Barry Commoner

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 environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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
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
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
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental
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
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
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
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

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