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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
BARRY COMMONER

Environmental Quality Growth Strategy
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
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Environment Lunch Nature
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Action Environmental Problem
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
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
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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
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
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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 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
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
Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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Difficult Growing Simple Triumph

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

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