The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.Barry Commoner
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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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.
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.
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When the Committee for Nuclear Information was organized in St. Louis in 1958, we brought scientists and civic-minded citizens together.
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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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