Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
BARRY COMMONERIf environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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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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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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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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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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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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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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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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