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

Barry Commoner

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
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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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Environmental Suicidal Warning
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
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
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
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
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
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
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

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