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

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

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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.

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