"World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole."
-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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."
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"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."
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