In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
BARRY COMMONERThe 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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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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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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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 age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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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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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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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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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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