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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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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Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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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 environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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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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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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