In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

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

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival.