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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.
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Inheritance Law Technology
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
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
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
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology
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
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
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
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
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
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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Profound Technology War
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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

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