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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

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Day Earth Environmental Use
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
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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Differences Feel Good People
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
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
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
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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Gaps Needs Technology
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
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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Achievement Air Cities
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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Degradation Ecosystems Environmental
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
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
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
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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