Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology as a whole.
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.
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.
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.
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
The environmental crisis is a global problem and only global action will resolve it.
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.
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline – which prevented it from entering the environment.
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.
By adopting the control strategy the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
