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

Barry Commoner

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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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Child Children Economic Labor
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
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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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Gaps Needs Technology
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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

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