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

Barry Commoner

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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Development Prevention Technology
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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Inheritance Law Technology
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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Environmental Risk Running
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
The 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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Agriculture People Sick
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
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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Environmental Meaningful Powerful Quality
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
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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Facts Vision War
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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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Believe Environmentalism Law Together
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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Air Epa Method Progress
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
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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Profound Technology War
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
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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Child Children Economic Labor

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