Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Nature knows best.
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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 age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
No action is without its side effects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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.
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
