In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
BARRY COMMONERTechnologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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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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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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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All of the clean technologies are known, it’s a question of simply applying them.
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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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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.
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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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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 first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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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.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
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The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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