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

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

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

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.

All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.