Commoner's Laws of Ecology
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Commoner's Laws of Ecology
The Closing Circle- Barry Commoner
Everything is Connected to Everything Else
The First Law
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on vulnerable supplies of air, water, and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace:
preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say the love, we give our fragile craft.
Adlai Stevenson
The pollution problem is a consequence of population. It did not much matter how a lonely American frontiersman disposed of his waste.... But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded…Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.-Garrett Hardin, biologist.
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The causal chain of the deterioration [of the environment] is easily followed to its source. Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticide, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide-all can be traced easily to too many people. -- Paul R. Ehrlich, biologist
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