Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
BARRY COMMONERNothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
BARRY COMMONERFinally, 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 COMMONERIt is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
BARRY COMMONERI see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
BARRY COMMONERMy 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 COMMONERIf environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
BARRY COMMONERWhat is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
BARRY COMMONERIf 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 COMMONERWorld War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
BARRY COMMONERBy adopting the control strategy, the nation’s environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
BARRY COMMONERSooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.
BARRY COMMONERThe proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
BARRY COMMONEREnvironmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
BARRY COMMONERThe age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
BARRY COMMONERTechnologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
BARRY COMMONERIn certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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