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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, du

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. – 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. – Barry Commoner

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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. – Barry Commoner

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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

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It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it. – David R. Brower

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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. – Vivienne Westwood

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Ive used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, Ive still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. – Jimmy Carter

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In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the worlds goods must steadily decrease. – Garrett Hardin

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