World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
BARRY COMMONERThe AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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 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 proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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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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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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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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Everything is connected to everything else.
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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