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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Barry Commoner

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
BARRY COMMONER

Environment Natural Pay
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.
BARRY COMMONER

Believe Environmentalism Law Together
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.
BARRY COMMONER

Profound Technology War
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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Age May Technology
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
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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Light Tunnels Way
In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Different Teenager Way
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 Earth Firefighter People
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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Environment Fads Lasts
No action is without its side effects.
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Action Effect Sides
All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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Clean Known Technology
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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Advice Die Information
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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Approach Impossible Zero
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Army Command Scientist
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
BARRY COMMONER

Environment Lunch Nature
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

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

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