To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to disaster, for once radioactive elements have been deposited at sea they are irretrievable.… - Rachel Carson

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth's vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight. Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species-man-acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.

here the tailoring-the screening of basic truth is done, not to suit a party line-but to accommodate to the short-term gain-to serve the gods of profit and production.