What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

Everything is connected to everything else.

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

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.

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.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

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