Occupation: Biologist Birth: May 28, 1917 Death: September 30, 2012
If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one..
Everything is connected to everything else..
Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away..
Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as ru….
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them..
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential….
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art..
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, a….
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think..
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exc….
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it..
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and soci….
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it..
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented ….
Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult….
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of….
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over..
Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'.