The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
BARRY COMMONERIt is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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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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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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Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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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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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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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 pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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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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