Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

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.

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

The favorite statistic is that the U.S. contains 6 to 7% of the world population but consumes more than half the world's resources and is responsible for that fraction of the total environmental pollution. But this statistic hides another vital fact: that not everyone in the U.S. is so affluent.

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