Everything is connected to everything else.
BARRY COMMONER
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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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.
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Air 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.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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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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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts – even widely known ones – that were outside their limited field of vision.
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The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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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 modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.
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