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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic…
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point…
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is…
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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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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of…
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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…
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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…
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By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy,…
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it…
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The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has…
— Eric Alterman
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working…
— Susan Sontag
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We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries,…
— Adolf Hitler
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing…
— John Holdren
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I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that,…
— John Miller
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing…
— Pope Francis
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If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of…
— Unknown Author
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I had an economic system imposed on me.
— Lauryn Hill
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And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going…
— Bill O'Reilly
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