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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Barry Commoner

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 nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
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 environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution

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