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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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