The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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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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Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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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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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve 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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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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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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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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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 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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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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