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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.


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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.



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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.



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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.



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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.



After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.





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