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

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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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Earth Day Environmental
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Command Scientist
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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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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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May
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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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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Environmentalism Together
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Crisis Environmental Signal
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 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
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Way
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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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
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Environmental
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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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 Economic
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

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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 Firefighter
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.

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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Shirts
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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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
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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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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Epa Method

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