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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

Barry Commoner

Everything is connected to everything else.
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Connected Else Everything
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
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Environmental Issues Links
Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Practice Problem Solve
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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Degradation Recycling Substance
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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Irrational Reason Shirts
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
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
The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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Apprentice Modern Technology

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