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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

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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Environmental Suicidal Warning
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
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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Inheritance Law Technology
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Art Law Medicine
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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Environmental Need Powerful
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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Animal Law Nature
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
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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Development Prevention Technology
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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Air Epa Method Progress
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental Thinking Understanding

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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