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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.

Barry Commoner

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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Agriculture Answers Energy
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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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Environmental Hazards Independent
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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Day Earth Firefighter People
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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Cooperatives Global Larger Planets
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Entering Environmental Quality Simple
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
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
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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