The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
BARRY COMMONERThe environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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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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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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No action is without its side effects.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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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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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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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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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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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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