Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
BARRY COMMONERAir pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
-
-
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
BARRY COMMONER -
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
BARRY COMMONER -
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
BARRY COMMONER -
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
BARRY COMMONER -
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
BARRY 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 COMMONER -
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
BARRY COMMONER -
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
BARRY COMMONER -
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.
BARRY COMMONER -
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
BARRY COMMONER -
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
BARRY COMMONER -
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
BARRY COMMONER -
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.
BARRY COMMONER -
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
BARRY COMMONER -
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
BARRY COMMONER