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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
- Independent
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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 for the hazards.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
- Child Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020