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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.

Barry Commoner

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
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
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
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Differences Feel Good People
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
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
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Entering Environmental Quality Simple

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