The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
BARRY COMMONERTechnologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point – the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically – and destructively – demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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