The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
BARRY COMMONEREverything is connected to everything else.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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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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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve 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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Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
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The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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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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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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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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