I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
BARRY COMMONEREnvironmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
More Barry Commoner Quotes
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
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Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
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In certain ways, I’m not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms.
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
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Technologists practice faith too; ‘Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.’
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Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
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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.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.
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