All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
BARRY COMMONER
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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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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve 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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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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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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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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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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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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No action is without its side effects.
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