Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
BARRY COMMONERAll of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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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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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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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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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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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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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 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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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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 can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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