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

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

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.

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

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

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