Barry Commoner on command
Barry Commoner51 quotes“The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.”
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
Barry CommonerBarry 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 CommonerBarry Commoner Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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 CommonerBarry Commoner In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner 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.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Barry CommonerBarry 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 CommonerBarry Commoner 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.
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If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour’s plain command to go?
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
Fulton J. SheenFulton J. Sheen Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
Fulton J. SheenFulton J. Sheen How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?
Fulton J. SheenFulton J. Sheen Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
John VianneyJohn Vianney The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila
