The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

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

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

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