Barry Commoner on medicine
Barry Commoner51 quotes“Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.”
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Everything is connected to everything else.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner By adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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