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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.

Barry Commoner

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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Impact Technology War
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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Disease Environmental Pollution
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
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
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
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Environmental War Years
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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Differences Feel Good People
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
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
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 Hazards Independent
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
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
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Environment Natural Pay
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

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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