The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. — Quoted

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“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”

Barry Commoner · Faith

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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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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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