The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don’t put something in the ecology, it’s not there.
Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production – in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation – essential as they are, make people sick and die.