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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

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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 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
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve

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