"By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth."
― Barry Commoner
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Environmental
― Barry Commoner
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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."
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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."
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- "Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught."― Victoria Principal
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- "I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history."― Jared Diamond