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Pollution: Infinite Room to Pollute:
“If the Earth was flat-- out to infinity-- there’d be infinite room to pollute. You just get rid of it. It goes to infinity. That’s been the practical idea up to now. And if it went to infinity there’d be an infinite amount of resources to replace the resources we’ve exhausted. That’s been our experience in the past. Let’s be practical. Let’s get down to Earth! That’s the way it is. . . . And then look at the extraordinary editorial in yesterday’s N.Y. Times quoting Maurice Stans, the Secretary of Commerce, saying let’s go slow on environmental controls: if it gets in the way of making money, we can’t afford it. I think it is a most ghastly demonstration of the magnitude to which humans are really entrapped by shortsightedness and selfishness. Now I don’t think ill of any of my fellow men. Each one has his own evolutionary pattern, but I am intent, wherever I can, to free my fellow men of the entrapment in ignorance and shortsightedness. . .”
