Everything is connected to everything else.
BARRY COMMONERAfter 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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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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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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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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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.
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