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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

Barry Commoner

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
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
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 environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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.
BARRY COMMONER

Achievement Air Cities
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph
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 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

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

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