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• The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
• Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic…
• What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point…
• When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
• Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is…
• Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.…
• We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of…
• In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible…
• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in…
• By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy,…
• 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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