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“Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.”

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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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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

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

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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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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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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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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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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done…

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The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out…

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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and…

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The environmental crisis is a sign that the ecosphere is now so heavily strained that its continued stability is threatened. It is a warning…

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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic…

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With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one…

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

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I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others…

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Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all…

Voltairine de Cleyre

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The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The…

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The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with…

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The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before…

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The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover…

Frances Fox Piven

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In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

May Sarton

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The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans…

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When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity…

Chokwe Lumumba

A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be…

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