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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.


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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.



Everything is connected to everything else.

Everything is connected to everything else.



Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.



The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.



The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.



Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.



If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.



Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.



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.

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.



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.

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.





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Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.



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I guess the worst thing you feel in a fight is being out of shape.



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