By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. |
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. |
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons. |
Nothing ever goes away. |
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. |
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. |
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. |
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. |
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way. |
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. |
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. |
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. |
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. |
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology. |