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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Human
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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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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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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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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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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
- Day
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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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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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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
- Environmental
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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.
- Economic
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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 from entering the environment.
- Child Labor
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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, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
- Need
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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 - 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
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
- Economic Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing ever goes away.
- Effects
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No action is without its side effects.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
- Environmental Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
- Environmentalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 to solve all of the problems together.
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature knows best.
- Free Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020